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At the 49th General Assembly held in Barcelona, December 2024, Dr. Gianfranco Federici was elected to be the new EUROfusion Programme Manager following a rigorous selection process. Dr. Federici succeeds Prof. Ambrogio Fasoli as he returns to EPFL to become its Provost.

DIFFER researcher Hari Varadarajan receives a 2025 EUROfusion Engineering Grant (EEG). This award is given to outstanding early-stage engineers, working on key technological challenges essential to the European fusion programme. Varadarajan wins this prestigious award for his project ‘Cooperative control for fusion’. 

The realisation of a fusion plant faces multiple challenges, for example controlling the heat load on the wall. An expert team of DIFFER is helping Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) to develop the SPARC tokamak.

Fusion researcher Tijs Wijkamp received a EUROfusion Bernard Bigot Researcher Grant (ERG) to study runaway electrons, which can damage the inside of a fusion reactor if they are not properly dealt with. EUROfusion interviewed him on how the ERG stimulates connecting with other experts.

DIFFER no longer uses X (formerly Twitter) as a communication channel. As of the end of this month the Dutch research institute terminated the account on X. More and more universities and research institutes are leaving the platform.