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On February 11 it’s the ‘International day of women and girls in science’. A perfect occasion to put Ceren Tayran in the spotlights. Since October 2023 Ceren works as a postdoctoral researcher in the Autonomous Energy Materials Discovery group at DIFFER’s Chemical Energy department. What does it mean to her, being a woman working in science?

Travelling by plane without feeling guilty and saying goodbye to a large part of the CO₂ problem. That sounds like magic, doesn't it? In a Universiteit van Nederland video chemist Tess van Eeden explains how plasma chemistry can help to make the chemical industry more sustainable.

A consortium of Dutch technology companies – DEMCON, Thorizon, and VDL Group – signed a project agreement last December. Their shared mission: to achieve a breakthrough in the development of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), specifically molten salt reactors. DIFFER supports the development of these reactors through its unique DICE research facility.

DIFFER researcher Chris Orrico receives the 2023 IEEE Technical Committee on Energy Systems (TC-ES) Outstanding Student Paper Prize (OSPP). The prize rewards his Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) publication ‘Mixed-Integer MPC Strategies for Fueling and Density Control in Fusion Tokamaks’.

How does a research institute like DIFFER look like from the inside? With a new virtual tour it is possible to take a look whenever and wherever you want.