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To remove barriers to the recruitment and career progression of female physicists, the directors of four NWO physics institutes AMOLF, ARCNL, DIFFER and Nikhef have signed Gender Equality Plans (GEP) to promote female physicists careers. The official ceremony took place on Monday night, January 22nd, 2018 at the start of Physics@Veldhoven in front of the physics community.

Om de werving en loopbaanontwikkeling van vrouwelijke fysici te bevorderen, ondertekenden de directeuren van de vier NWO-fysica-instituten AMOLF, ARCNL, DIFFER en Nikhef zogenoemde Gender Equality Plans (GEP). De officiële ceremonie vond plaats op maandagavond 22 januari 2018 bij de start van Physics@Veldhoven ten overstaan van de natuurkundegemeenschap.

Trouw national newspaper interviewed DIFFER's director Richard van de Sanden about the possible role for Solar Fuels in connection to stopping natural gas production in Groningen. The article resulted in a radio interview on the same day on national public radio NPO Radio 1.

With a research grant from the NWO program on Materials for Sustainability Mat4Sus, computational scientist Süleyman Er (DIFFER) and his research team will develop new battery materials for stationary electrical energy storage.

From 16-21 November 2017, DIFFER participated in the sixth edition of the Fusion Days at Antwerp University for some 3750 high school students and teachers. DIFFER's Fusion Road Show with its live experiments was again well received as the central event for the Fusion Days.