Fusion CDT: Recent Episodes
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EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Fusion Power and EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Fusion Energy Science and Technology
We are incredibly proud to share that Deborah Selemon, a talented student from our Fusion CDT, has recently contributed to the Fusion Industry Taskforce (FIT) website.
Their article, “How Fusion-CDT is Helping Plug the Gap in Fusion Sector Skills”, published on October 16th 2024, offers valuable perspectives on highlighting the crucial role of the EPSRC-funded Fusion Centre for Doctoral Training (Fusion-CDT), in addressing the growing skills gap within the UK fusion energy industry.
We encourage you to read Deborah’s contribution in full on the FIT website: https://fusionindustrytaskforce.co.uk/how-fusion-cdt-is-helping/.
Well done Deborah on an excellent article.
Deborah Selemon
Congratulations to Arun Nutter who has met the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy in Plasma Science and Fusion Energy on 28/03/25.
Well done Arun!
https://fusion-cdt.ac.uk/team/arun-nutter/
Dr Cyd Cowley discusses news in fusion, and whether the world is ready. Cyd is a CDT alumnus now working at digiLab, which has been chosen as a partner for the STEP project specialising in AI.
In week 5 Professor Russell Goodall welcomed over 20 first year students in the 2024 cohort to the University of Sheffield, for a week of classroom-based learning about Leadership and Researcher Skills.
The students learnt about how to frame research questions, project planning and management, scientific communication methods, structuring a research paper, data visualisation, research ethics in publishing and networking skills.
The sessions were supported by current and former PhD students from the Advanced Metallic Systems CDT at Sheffield. During a lunchtime outreach activity, they practiced networking with ‘A’ level students who had recently participated in the Nuffield Research Placement scheme and were presenting their research posters, while also engaging with the Metallic’s PhD students in more depth.
This year we revised the programme to take account of the latest developments in Fusion. We added new lectures on the design of tokamaks and inertial fusion power plants (Ryan Wagner, IAEA and Jame Darline, First Light Fusion) and the development of design codes (Thomas Davis, Oxford Sigma). Niek Lopes Cardozo returned with his thought-provoking talk on the Socio-Economics of Fusion: i.e. looking at how fusion energy compares to other sources in terms of public opinion and cost, and how we can influence that. We finished with a very well-received question and answer session with Sir Ian Chapman, CEO at UKAEA, focusing on the UK Fusion Programme in the international ladscape.
You can view a copy of the programme here: Oxford Week Schedule 30th Sept – 3rd Oct 23.09
Attend the Fusion Industry School if you want to learn from the experts, network with the relevant people and gain insights into the exciting industry! Well done! Andrew Ngo, A-Star
Broad range of topics covered which gave me an overview and some insights into the whole of fusion industry. Amazing opportunity. Claudia Quintal, UKAEA
We welcomed the following speakers and panelists:
- Ryan Wagner, IAEA
- Jamie Darling, First Light Fusion
- Arun Bhattacharya, University of Birmingham
- Susie Speller, University of Oxford
- Christian Tribbe, AtkinsRealis
- Samuel Murphy, University of Lancaster
- Rob Skilton, UKAEA
- Tom Davis, Oxford Sigma
- Niek Lopes Cardozo, Technical Universitiy of Einhoven
- Nick Walkden, UKAEA
- Roddy Vann, University of York
- Jacqui Dalziel, Tokamak Energy
- Alison George, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Mark Gilbert, UKAEA
- Mike Webley, Environment Agency
- Clare Lee, Health and Safety Authority
- Chris Waldon, UKAEA
- Ian Chapman, UKAEA
The United Kingdom Mission to the UN in Vienna recently released a film featuring Fusion CDT alumna Dr Laura Wheatley, now working at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The film highlights Dr Wheatley’s journey from UK academia to her current role at the IAEA. Her PhD host institution has shared some key moments from the film, which you can find here: University of Oxford, Department of Materials.
You can watch the full film on YouTube: From UK Academia to Working at the International Atomic Energy Agency – Dr Laura Wheatley by the United Kingdom Mission to the UN Vienna.
We are proud of Laura and all that she has achieved so far.
We are proud to celebrate Charlotte Brown, one of our post-graduate researchers for being honored with the Ogden Outreach award back in October of this year. This incredible achievement highlights her dedication and passion in Outreach and Outreach for Fusion.
In Charlottes own words:
‘I recently won the Ogden Trust Outreach Award for Postgraduate Student Ambassador for the work I did through the Fusion CDT’s outreach team. We went into schools in the Gainsborough/Retford area to promote/introduce fusion energy (they are building the STEP reactor nearby). I ran materials workshops for primary school children and a planetarium style ‘Sundome’ presentation for secondary school children and members of the public. We aimed to develop a love of science in students and spark curiosity. Interesting discussions were had with members of the public looking to learn more about fusion energy and the STEP programme.’
Please join us in congratulating Charlotte on this outstanding accomplishment. We are excited to see what they achieve next and are honored to have them as part of our community!
Matty WarnerBefore arriving at the CDT induction week, I will admit that I was nervous about a few things. It is only natural before a big change in life, the start of a new chapter, to be apprehensive about what the future holds. Thinking about how much work lies ahead, both with collaborative opportunities and the lonely hours sat in front of a screen, can be both exciting and nerve-wracking in equal measure. Thankfully, once the induction week had begun, many of initial nerves were alleviated and my excitement to start a PhD in fusion energy grew substantially. This was mostly due to the amazing people who made the induction what it was, both the incredible organisers and my wonderful new colleagues.
I have already alluded to the fact that parts of a PhD will inevitably be quite an isolating experience, due to the need to submit an individual thesis at the end of your research. This is why collaboration is so important and being introduced to life as a PhD student with a cohort of people all sharing the same passion for fusion energy was an immediate reminder that this is a team effort. For example, there will be people doing entirely different projects that at some point may use a similar experimental or computational technique and working through a problem together could assist both your personal work and theirs. Using the old adage ‘a problem shared is a problem halved’, seemingly insurmountable problems could be reduced to 10% of their original size by sharing knowledge with the brilliant cohort of students starting this year. This collaboration between PhD students working all over the country will prove invaluable to becoming a better researcher and the induction week helped to reinforce the idea that there will always be help available whenever it is needed.
Aside from the benefits of meeting people in similar academic situations, the induction week also offered plenty of time to get to know colleagues on a more personal level. From coffee breaks in between introductory talks and lectures to conversations during shared meal times, it was great to have the opportunity to find out about everyone’s respective journeys to the CDT and compare the paths taken and the skills we’d gained along the way. These conversations particularly highlighted the advantages that a diversity of perspectives has within a work environment, as everyone can bring their own unique experiences to tackle a problem which will ultimately help to solve a wide range of issues throughout our different research projects. Getting to know my colleagues on a level beyond our academic pursuits will undoubtedly enhance my personal PhD experience, and I’m sure everyone in the cohort would also share this sentiment.
Speaking of getting to know everyone better, our first collaboration took place on the Wednesday afternoon in the form of a team building activity. From attempting to direct a golf ball into the centre of a toilet seat through an intricate pipe network to racing to be the fastest human hamster wheel, we were put into teams to compete in a variety of activities where effective teamwork was the aim of the game. This provided an opportunity to work with new people in a more relaxed setting than the intensity of a research environment and allowed us to form stronger networks in our respective teams.
Overall, I would say that an induction week like this should be essential for starting any research project as it presented the PhD in the context of a team, rather than an individual pursuit, highlighting a clear support network for the duration of our studies. It also means that we have an established connection going forward into the taught modules that will benefit our studies of fusion energy. Discovering the many unique reasons why being a part of fusion research is important to each person in the CDT provided me with extra intrinsic motivation for my studies that I didn’t know I needed. The main point I keep coming back to is just how much the people at the induction week created such a great experience for me personally. I already feel as though I have met a group of people who will substantially increase both the quality of my work and the quality of my PhD experience, and I only hope that I can do the same for them.
Sean BegganArriving at a Café Nero tucked behind Leeds Train Station, filled with a mixture of nerves and excitement, there were about a dozen twenty-somethings all eagerly waiting to be picked up by the coach and taken to Oulton Hall to begin our CDT induction week.
We pile into the already half full coach at 11am to join the rest of our new cohort who had travelled down from the York Plasma Institute. Everyone was friendly, chatty and in good spirits which helped to settle my nerves. Only a short 30-minute journey and we arrive at Oulton Hall.
After dropping our bags and having a delicious lunch, we entered the Hotel’s Repton Room which would become very familiar to us over the course of the week, spending up to six hours in there each day. Our first activity: an icebreaker – going around the room find one other individual with whom only you share a fact and then finding a fact which is unique to only yourself. My favourite shared fact: Ryan and Ryan’s common fact was they were both called Ryan.
At this point I should mention that the induction was being led by Katy, the Fusion CDT manager and Russell, one of the Sheffield based academics helping to oversee the CDT, both of whom were brilliant throughout the week. Having shared lunch with them a few times throughout the week, they are both clearly very passionate about the CDT and extremely easy to talk to.
They led the majority of the talks throughout the week. Covering from the simple such as “Why do a PhD?” to more thoughtful topics such as “Expectations and Goal setting” and then finally to the more serious topics such as “Responsible Research and Innovation and Trusted Research”.
The remainder of the sessions were focused around the more technical aspects of the programme. Our first task: get Python up and running on our new laptops provided by the CDT – this was trickier than you’d imagine for a room full of STEM degrees. Following on from this was the maths refresher courses led by Arka, a Post-Doc researcher at the YPI. He was a brilliant explainer and took us through some complicated topics including Maxwell’s Equations of Electromagnetism, Ordinary Differential Equations, and Tensor Notation.
Finally, we had a session led by Gillian Arnold, an information technology leader and diversity and inclusion consultant. She led us through an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) workshop which was very insightful. It allowed us to be aware of each of our own inherent biases we have each developed throughout our lives, then taught us to recognise and be conscious of these biases and how we can overcome them.
However, the week wasn’t all just being talked at for hours on end. After the EDI training workshop, we had an afternoon of outdoor team building exercises. We made our way down to the front of the hotel where we were met by four toilet seats, each placed directly in front of a camping chair, surrounded by an array of materials: guttering pipes, string, crates, and more. The task: to build a track using the surrounding equipment which would maximise the time taken for a golf ball to travel from the camping chair and ending in the toilet seat. An extra 10 seconds would be added to your time if your team could also create a mechanism which would close the toilet seat as the golf ball entered.
We were split into four teams and given 35 minutes to construct our tracks. The time flew by and before we knew it, it was time to test our builds! Unfortunately, there were mixed results. We had a couple of false starts, the ball getting stuck halfway, even a DNF. However, one team dominated the challenge by not only taking the most time for the golf ball to travel, but they were also the only team to successfully create a working mechanism for the toilet seat to close – absolute result!
The golf ball puzzle was just the start, following this were an array of other exercises including the Tower of Hanoi rings problem, the mastermind board game with coloured pins, and for any Die Hard 3 fans the water jug problem which Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson have to solve to stop a bomb going off – luckily for us the stakes weren’t quite so high. After about six or seven activities the teams were tallied up and medals awarded to the teams in 1st, 2nd and 3rd before we all got a CDT photo.
Finally on Thursday evening, after a jammed packed week of introductions, maths refresher, training, and more we decided to organise a social as a new CDT cohort. We got taxis into Leeds town centre and went to a few bars and played some games of pool to varying levels of success. I called it a night a 1am but some braver souls continued.
Friday morning, remarkably, everyone made it down to breakfast on time despite the late night. We all then once again piled onto the coach at 10am to be taken back to Leeds train station. However, this time unsurprisingly everyone was a little less energetic. Overall, the induction week was a great success and really helped us all to gel as a cohort.
Each year the Fusion CDT collaborates with UK Atomic Energy Authority to organise an open day for prospective postgraduate students. While Fusion is the headline topic, this spans many research areas that encompass plasma physics, materials science, instrumentation and advanced engineering/technologies. It links to fields as diverse as astrophysics, advanced manufacturing and nuclear energy.
The event provides an opportunity for students to tour the exciting fusion facilities at Culham and to speak to representatives from several universities who will present their Fusion PhD or Masters opportunities.
The event this year will be held on Wednesday 27th November 2024 at Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire. Please visit the event website for more details and to register to attend.
The talks at the open day will be live streamed to one of the Fusion CDT university campuses in the north of England (York). If you are not able to attend the event in person, you can register to watch the live streamed talks and speak to Fusion CDT students in York instead. However, attending in person will maximize your opportunity to talk to universities and to see the exciting fusion facilities at Culham.
In 2024 welcomed speakers and delegates to the historic York Guildhall in the centre of York, for our usual mix of lectures and discussions on fusion technology and networking events. Our panel session this year was “The Future of Fusion”.
Final Schedule FIS York 2024 (PDF)
“Impressive! Eye-opener!” Andrew Ngo, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
“Really well organised event overall. Encourage anyone who wants to learn more about Fusion across all the main technical challenges and hear engaging discussions from world-leading experts to attend!” Davidson Sabu, UKAEA
“Highly recommend this school to anyone new to the fusion industry”
Jacob Hyde, Jacobs
We are very pleased to announce that the Fusion CDT’s bid has been successful and the new EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Fusion Power will begin taking students in September 2024. The programme will see some updates to reflect the changes in the fusion landscape as we move towards commerical fusion. We also welcome a new univesity to the collaboration, the University of Sheffield.
“The Fusion Power CDT will build on our existing success and international reputation to become the global beacon for training the next generation of fusion leaders. They will solve technical cross-disciplinary challenges, moving fusion forward faster at a rate of 20 scientists and engineers per year. This supply of the best people will energise the global fusion industry and enable international fusion power plant innovation & development.” Professor Roddy Vann, Programme Dirtector.
Fusion CDT students at an outreach event
The CDT will work closely with twenty commercial, industrial and national lab partners both in the UK and overseas.
Applications are open for 2024 entry, please see here for more information: https://fusion-cdt.ac.uk/study-with-us/
This funding is part of the £1 billion investment in engineering and physical sciences doctoral skills recently announced by EPSRC. Please see the full press release here: https://www.ukri.org/news/1-billion-doctoral-training-investment-announced/
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Shortly after starting their doctoral journeys, the cohort of 22 students came together for the first time in mid-October in York. But before getting fully into the team discussions, we first had fun together exploring the beautiful city of York. For some nice teambuilding, the CDT cohort visited Mindlock Escape Games’ escape rooms just beside Clifford’s Tower. Divided into teams of 4-5, the students pooled together their smarts to make it out in time before the other teams, and all the teams were successfully able to escape. It is obviously more value for money to spend the entire hour inside the room, so my team and I [strategically] pushed the timer to fifty-nine minutes before finally escaping (no, seriously!).
At the escape room
After some group photographs in wizard hats and Viking helmets, everyone headed to Coffee Yard for the start of Streethunt Games’ treasure hunt, split into teams named after different fusion facilities. This was a great teambuilding activity as it allowed us to explore the streets of York while playing the part of a private investigator. Along with Katy and Hillary from the YPI Admin team, the students got to explore several landmarks in York such as the Shambles, the Museum Gardens, St Mary’s Abbey and even stumbled across Guy Fawkes’ Inn. Indeed, that pub break was much needed. Once finished, the teams united as one and swarmed Las Iguanas for a delightful dinner and relaxed evening.
Treasure hunting in York
Fast-forward a few months, approaching Christmas, and many of us found ourselves exhausted having been through many intense CDT courses; a week away from all this was due. Good thing that Away Week had arrived. With a limited budget and an entire hostel booked by the YPI admin, the students took it upon themselves to organise some teambuilding down in Beverley. Reconvening late afternoon on a Monday at the YHA Beverley Friary Hostel, the students began to arrive to a large pile of groceries and a lot of bread – courtesy of the Away Week committee going for a big grocery shop to prepare for the meals to come. After having dinner, we didn’t hang around for too long before heading to bed to make sure we were ready for the next day.
During the away week, the students participated in a “design a reactor” game, where they split into teams (such as engineering, diagnostics, economics, etc.) to design a fusion reactor, encompassing power plant and considering costs and timelines. Through a vote, it was decided that the reactor would be a stellarator, and then the tasks were divided between the relevant teams. This activity was spread over several days and the product was a detailed presentation on our homemade reactor, the Superconducting Thermonuclear Advanced Reactor (STAR). Overall, this was a great activity and taught the students the importance of good teamwork within the team and good communication between the different teams.
Although building a reactor was a large part of the Away Week, our itinerary also included a visit to Escape Rooms Beverley, and a leisurely morning stroll exploring the town of Beverley. Some students had searched the hostel and found some chess and checkers boards that sparked some impromptu games that carried on throughout the 4 days. Teams came together in the evening after dinner, kicking back with drinks and swapping stories that ranged from hilarious mishaps to heartwarming moments. A special thanks to the Away Week committee who wonderfully planned all the activities and organised the food – without their efforts this would not have been possible!
Yahya Nasir, First year CDT Student
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The JET Tokamak. Image credit: UKAEA
In it’s final experiment, the JET Tokamak produced more energy via fusion than ever before, as reported by the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68233330
Dr Aneeqa Khan, one of our CDT academics from University of Manchester, was quoted in the article:
“In order for the atoms to fuse together on Earth, we need temperatures ten times hotter than the Sun – around 100 million celsius, and we need a high enough density of the atoms and for a long enough time,”
The article finishes by looking forward to the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) project, which will be built in Nottinghamshire. Operations should begin in the 2040s.
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Congratulations to Ann-Marie, one of our third-year PhD students.
Ann-Marie was awarded first prize for the Best Student Poster Competition at the High Power Laser (HPL) Christmas Conference held 18th – 20th December 2023 at Abingdon School. The poster was Development of novel tape drive targets for use in High Repetition Rate XFEL experiments
Well done Ann-Marie!
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Each year the Fusion CDT collaborates with UK Atomic Energy Authority to organise an open day for prospective postgraduate students.
While Fusion is the headline topic, this spans many research areas that encompass plasma physics, materials science, instrumentation and advanced engineering/technologies. It links to fields as diverse as astrophysics, advanced manufacturing and nuclear energy.
The event provides an opportunity for students to tour the exciting fusion facilities at Culham and to speak to representatives from several universities who will present their Fusion PhD or Masters opportunities.
The event this year will be held on Wednesday 17th January 2024 at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire.
Please visit the website for more details and to register to attend – Culham PhD & MSc Open Day
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We’re pleased to announce that the second Fusion Industry School is now open for registrations.
The Fusion Industry School is a 2-week interactive programme of lectures from world-leading experts in fusion, aimed at providing an overview of the current progress and challenges to industry professionals. The school consists of lectures, networking sessions, panel discussions and Q&As as well as visits to the UKAEA national fusion facilities.
The first week (19th – 22nd June) takes place in York and has an emphasis on the underpinning fusion science and technology. The second week (25th – 28th September) is in Oxfordshire and will build on this first week, emphasising more the engineering applications.
If you’d like to find out more about the event and the schedule for this year, please visit our Fusion Industry School pages.
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In weeks 4 to 6 of the autumn term, the Fusion CDT first years from all the partner universities came together for three weeks of lectures at York Plasma Institute. The first week also included a cohort building afternoon. Ethan Attwood (a first year Fusion CDT student from University of York) reported back on the teambuilding event as follows:
It’s natural to have felt increasingly disconnected from your peers ever since the calendar turned to 2020. After two years of distancing, remote working, online lectures and cancelled events, this academic year finally feels severed from the last strands of our collective isolation. The events of this autumn will represent a fitting welcome to the CDT cohort of 2022, and a recognition of the fact that once again, we can run around the woods with reckless abandon.
Local Yorkshire events venue Hazlewood castle, with its geometric 11th-century architecture and sprawling grounds, seems an auspicious site for CDT teambuilding. The tipis and shuttered outdoor bars feel more like a site for a fairytale woodland wedding than 25 physics students about to attempt to cooperate. But a fitting venue it was, with activities designed and expertly guided to perfectly toe the boundary between competitive and cooperative, to instil mutual respect for the wider team while knowing deep down that your subgroup was the best. And the reviews corroborated, with comments from the group including:
“The whole day was great fun. Some people got a bit too competitive,” and “The orienteering was actually one of the most fun things I’ve done ever, but don’t put that in or it’ll seem disingenuous”.
A rotation around three activities allowed the teams to flex their competitive muscle: air rifle shooting, archery and a woodland scavenger hunt with riddles to solve. Points in each were up for grabs amongst our three rival squads: the Sausage Links, Pancake Kings and Koki’s Heroes.
It was in fact the introductory exercise that stimulated many of the strongest reactions. While simultaneously lowering a weighted metal rod to the ground with your teammates may sound trivial, it proved anything but. “Our strategy was to yell at each other in unison,” one of the group explained. “Also to identify problematic people and move them to the middle where they could do the least damage,” his teammate added. “Like me.”
Archery ended in a 3-way tie, with Koki’s Heroes marksman Max Stunt (a second year Fusion CDT student and one of our student reps) earning the title via rock-paper-scissors tiebreaker. In less controversial but just as dramatic fashion, Sim Bhaker of the Pancake Kings led the field in air rifle shooting.
The day didn’t end there though, as waiting for us back in York was a meal at ASK Italian organised by Ruth, Ella and Hillary (YPI admin team), who were the real heroes in all of this. The pizza and pasta was washed down with drinks at several stops along York’s incredible trail of pubs. In the end, a day of discovering our ungracefulness at activities mastered by explorer scouts many years our junior came second to speaking to that person you’ve so far only seen in lectures. It was in these conversations that we learned about the cool job they had before they started, or how far they’ve travelled to join the fusion community. We bantered, gossiped, and planned future socials across the home universities of the CDT. We are scientists after all; we like assessments of objectives and in this case, the afternoon at Hazlewood Castle was a resounding success, and we have a stronger cohort for it.
Ethan Attwood, Nouse Science Editor & Fusion CDT first year student
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Fusion CDT members from several years engaged in outreach at the Scarborough Science & Engineering Week on the 11th and 12th of October 2022. Local students flocked to the Sundome every 15 minutes to watch introductory videos on fusion energy and participate in live Q&A sessions with CDT volunteers.
Outside of the Sundome, curious students turned to the staffed Fusion CDT booth where they could ask more in-depth questions, have a look at a Lego fusion reactor model and take a shot at operating a reactor themselves by playing Operation Tokamak. With hardly a moment of downtime at either the Sundome or booth, engagement with and enthusiasm for fusion energy was high.
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Congratulations to Matthew Selwood, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in July 2022. Matthew’s thesis is entitled, “Coded Aperture Imaging: novel approaches to high-energy...
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Congratulations to Emma Hume, a University of York Fusion CDT student currently in her fourth year. Emma was awarded second place for the Best Student Poster Competition at the High...
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Congratulations to Sam Ward, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in May 2022. Sam’s thesis is entitled, “Optimising energetic particle transport due to 3D...
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Congratulations to Eduardo Solis Meza, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in May 2022. Eduardo’s thesis is entitled “Study of extreme ultraviolet laser ablation...
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The first Fusion Industry School (FIS) was held at the University of York during 20-24 June, 2022. Over 30 delegates were welcomed by Prof Matthias Ruth, University of York pVC...
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The Fusion Frontiers and Interfaces workshop took place at York Plasma Institute (YPI) from 25 to 29 April 2022. This annual workshop explores the frontiers of fusion research and the...
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Congratulations to Andrew Malcolm-Neale, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in 2021. Andrew’s thesis is entitled “Experimental Search for Signatures of Zonal Flow Physics...
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Congratulations to Greg Smith, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in 2021. Greg’s thesis is entitled “Negative ion production in low temperature hydrogen plasmas”...
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Congratulations to Joe Allan, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in June 2021. Joe’s thesis is entitled “Design of the Synthetic Aperture Microwave Imager-2...
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The concept of ignition in inertial confinement fusion is super important – we need to produce enough heat to ignite our fuel and get lots of fusion reactions (and therefore...
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Aneeqa Khan, member of the Fusion CDT management board, took part in a panel discussion at COP26 alongside UKAEA and other organisations. See below for the UKAEA press release on...
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ScienceX is an annual interactive science fair aiming to bring hands-on science and engineering to families. This year it was held at the Manchester Central Library and focused on the...
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Earlier this year, Liverpool Fusion CDT student Ella Fox-Widdows launched an exciting new podcast series. The ‘Fusion Focused’ podcast aims to highlight inspiring experts within the Fusion Energy community, showcase...
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It is our pleasure to invite you to the 2nd annual Fusenet Teacher Training Day on the 1st October 2021. The day will be split into a UK Domestic Session, as well...
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On Sunday the 13th of June 2021, Fusion CDT students Hasan Muhammed, Emma Hume, and Cyd Cowley took part in the York Festival of Ideas through a podcast entitled ‘Fusion:...
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A new and exciting collaboration is underway between the Fusion CDT and the University of York’s Department of Environment & Geography and Department of Politics. Recognising the vital importance of...
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Congratulations to Paul Barron, a Manchester Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in May 2021. Paul’s thesis is entitled “The development of low-activation, multi-principal element alloys...
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James Lennard, a second year Manchester Fusion CDT student, gave this account of a Pecha Kucha style online conference organised by and for Fusion CDT students: “On Friday 9th April,...
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Congratulations to Matthew Lloyd, an Oxford Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva earlier this year. Matthew’s thesis is entitled “Radiation Damage and Transmutation in Tungsten-Alloys for...
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Congratulations to Sam Gibson, a Durham Fusion CDT student who successfully defended her thesis at viva in April 2021. Sam’s thesis is entitled “Measurement of the Current Profile in Fusion...
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Congratulations to Bhavin Patel, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva on 25 March 2021. Bhavin’s thesis is entitled ‘Confinement physics of a steady state...
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Congratulations to Tom Davis, an Oxford Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in December 2020. Tom’s thesis is entitled “On nanosized precipitates in steels for advanced...
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Congratulations to Chris Underwood, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in December 2020. Chris’ thesis is entitled “Optimising production of high energy radiation using laser wakefield acceleration”...
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Congratulations to Philip Bradford, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in March 2021. Phil’s thesis is entitled “Laser-driven discharges and electromagnetic fields” and his...
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Congratulations to Charlie Vincent, a Durham Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in February 2021. Charlie’s thesis is entitled “FPGA Based Diagnostics for the Mega-Amp Spherical...
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Under the strange circumstances of a pandemic we welcomed the 2020 cohort to the Fusion CDT in October. The main teambuilding event had to be amended for virtual ones, due...
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Congratulations to James Ellis, a University of York Fusion CDT student who graduated on 22 January 2021, having successfully defended his thesis at viva in July 2020. The graduation ceremony...
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On 16 December 2020 the Fusion CDT collaborated with Culham Centre for Fusion Energy to hold an online open day for prospective postgraduate students. The event started with a series...
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In Spring 2020 we were very excited to learn that funding from EPSRC was confirmed for continuation of the Fusion CDT programme. £4.35 million was agreed to fund four student...
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Congratulations to Will Trickey, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in November 2020. Will’s thesis is entitled “Novel Approaches to Indirect Inertial Confinement Fusion”...
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Each year the Fusion Centre for Doctoral Training collaborates with Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) to organise an open day for prospective postgraduate students. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, this...
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Ella Fox-Widdows, a third year Fusion CDT student (University of Liverpool), recently started working with the Fusion Industry Association presenting fusion news updates. Ella tells us more: “I’m very excited...
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York Plasma Institute (YPI) hosts the ‘Fusion Frontiers and Interfaces’ workshop for two and a half days annually in the summer term (late April /early May). This is our biggest...
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UK nuclear fusion energy got a big budget boost last year as designs for a power plant prototype were commissioned – a project called STEP. We sit down with UKAEA...
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Congratulations to Michail Anastopoulos Tzanis, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in November 2019. Michail’s thesis is entitled “Beyond Axisymmetry in Tokamak Plasmas” and...
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Congratulations to László Horváth, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in December 2019. László’s thesis is entitled “Isotope dependence of the H-mode pedestal in...
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In April 2019 the ‘A Glass of Seawater’ podcast team won the Rutherford Plasma Physics Communication Prize and in January the team spent their prize money on new podcasting equipment....
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A second round on laser fusion energy ignition research! Here we discuss advanced ignition schemes and big laser facilities. We also get to have a closer look at what Phil,...
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Congratulations to Siobhan Smith, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended her thesis at viva in December 2019. Siobhan’s thesis is entitled “Numerical simulations of edge localised mode instabilities...
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Congratulations to Ben Woods, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in December 2019. His thesis is entitled “Nonlinear wave-particle resonance in deterministic and stochastic...
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Sam Gibson and Bhavin Patel have both recently returned from successful research trips to General Atomics in San Diego. Sam Gibson (a fourth year Durham University Fusion CDT student) was...
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Magnets are mission critical to magnetic confinement nuclear fusion energy and find their way into laser fusion too. Understanding the strongest magnetic fields using near-absolute zero temperature materials science would...
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Steven Thomas, a third year Fusion CDT student based at University of York, recently completed his collaboratory research project at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of...
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In September we welcomed our new cohort of Fusion CDT students across the five university partners. The plasma strand students spent the first few weeks of term together here in...
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Congratulations to Matthew Khan who was one of the winners of the Chiyoe Yamanaka Award at the Eleventh International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications held in Osaka, Japan in September 2019....
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Each year the Fusion Centre for Doctoral Training collaborates with Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) to organise an open day for prospective postgraduate students. This year’s event will take place...
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Congratulations to Phil Bradford who has been awarded the Editor-in-Chief Choice Award in the High Power Laser Science and Engineering journal, for the paper titled “EMP control and characterization on high-power...
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Congratulations to Sam Gibson and to Michail Anastopoulos Tzanis who both won prizes for their posters at the Culham PhD Showcase event which took place on 22 and 23 July...
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Congratulations to Will Trickey who recently won the University of York Three Minute Thesis competition with his talk titled ‘Harnessing the Power of the Sun with High Power Lasers’. Will...
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Nuclear energy expertise from fusion and fission combines in this episode to talk about the nuclear waste from fusion reactor designs. Where does it come from? How do we avoid...
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In April, the Fusion CDT supported ‘A Glass of Seawater’ podcast won the Rutherford Plasma Physics Communication Prize for its success in bringing plasma physics to new audiences. The prize...
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The annual Fusion Frontiers and Interfaces workshop took place at York Plasma Institute from 29 April to 3 May 2019. This workshop explores the frontiers of fusion research and the...
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Most of us have an impression of what student life is like but maybe not that of a PhD student. This episode we have Sam, Helen, Tiantian and Emma to...
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The University of York is recruiting now for Sept 2019 entry with two funded four year PhD studentships available within the Fusion Centre for Doctoral Training (Fusion CDT): • Performance-limiting...
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Congratulations to Ellie Tubman who has been selected as one of the 2019 winners of the EPS Plasma Physics Division PhD Research Award. Ellie’s thesis was entitled ‘Magnetic field generation...
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How can we use plasma jets for propulsion? Scott’s been working on using fusion fuel as rocket technology for cubesats (satellites). We talk about Hall effect and photon thrusters too....
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The first application deadline for plasma strand Fusion CDT projects for 2019 entry is coming up on Friday 22 March 2019. For materials strand projects please contact the relevant university...
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Congratulations to the following Fusion CDT students who have recently successfully defended their theses at viva: Fred Thomas – a University of York student supervised by Dr John Pasley and...
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Andrew Malcolm-Neale, a third year Fusion CDT student based at University of York, tells us more about his recent attendance at the LGBTSTEMinar 2019: “A national, inter-disciplinary, one-day gathering of...
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For our anniversary episode we sat down with Prof Jim Al-Khalili! We talked about science communication (scicomm) with him and Dr Lancaster – their motivation, experiences and how to talk...
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In December 2018 the first year Fusion CDT cohort spent two nights away at YHA Hathersage Hostel in the Peak District. The Fusion CDT strongly encourages students to work collaboratively...
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Congratulations to Jack Haley, an Oxford Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva yesterday. His thesis is entitled “TEM of neutron, proton and self-ion irradiation damage in...
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If you’ve been wondering why would we call ourselves a glass of seawater, you’re in for a treat. Today Bhavin, Tom and Michail discuss how much fuel for the fusion...
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Congratulations to Will Trickey, a third year Fusion CDT student based at University of York, who won the student poster prize at the High Power Laser Users annual christmas meeting...
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Matthew Lloyd, a third year Fusion CDT student based at University of Oxford, recently won the Best Poster Prize at the 9th International Conference on Multiscale Modelling of Materials in...
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Congratulations to Sarah Wilson, a York CDT student who successfully defended her thesis at viva in October 2018. Her thesis is entitled “A study of extreme ultraviolet capillary discharge lasers...
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This time Will, Charlie, Kate and newcomer Chris M have gathered to talk about this year’s Nobel Prize Winner: Chirped Pulse Amplification. We break down exactly what this technological breakthrough...
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Newcomers Chris and Sarah join Bhavin and Will to talk about lasers and the technology that goes into them. Also why lasers are so important and a brief look into...
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In September we welcomed our new cohort of Fusion CDT students across the five university partners. Since the start of term, as well as studying there has been time to...
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Greg Smith was awarded the poster prize at the 16th Technological Plasma Workshop held in Coventry in October 2018. Greg is a third year Fusion CDT student based at University...
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Each year the Fusion Centre for Doctoral Training collaborates with Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) to organise an open day for prospective postgraduate students. This year’s event will take place...
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Fusion CDT alumnum Aneeqa Khan featured on Sky News recently, explaining the science behind the ITER project. Aneeqa joined the Fusion CDT programme in 2012 and completed her PhD based...
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The last glass in our set: what can we do with plasma besides fusion energy? The answers will include fundamental physics, manufacturing, medicine and space tech… and we’re just getting...
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Following his participation in the LGBTSTEMinar that came to York earlier this year, Andrew Malcolm-Neale was asked to join PrideinSTEM* to march in Pride in London 2018. Andrew is a...
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Congratulations to Hannah Willett a York CDT student, who successfully defended her thesis at viva in August 2018. Her thesis is entitled “Applications of linear plasma device studies to the improvement...
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Never mind the seawater. Today it’s all about the glass and its materials. What happens in the challenging environments of a fusion reactor? Does the glass even exist yet? And...
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From 9th to 11th July 2018 a summer school masterclass was held at University of Sheffield for Energy CDT students and supervisors. The summer school was funded by EPSRC and...
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Christopher Underwood attended the Nuclear Photonics 2018 conference in Brasov, Romania in June 2018 and was awarded a Second Prize in their Best Poster Awards. Chris is a second year...
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Shahnaz Hoque, a first year Fusion CDT student based at the University of Oxford, reports on an event she organised in June 2018: “I am a first year DPhil student...
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For the past year Jack Haley (Fusion CDT student based at Oxford) has been working with animators to create a short film called ‘Materials for nuclear fusion: how do you...
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This time our glass is positively effervescent – filled with High Energy Density Physics. To Will’s delight, we finally recorded an episode on laser fusion. In this episode we give...
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Congratulations to Jack Haley, a 4th year Fusion CDT student, who recently won first prize in the ‘Scientific Conference’ category in the University of Oxford, Department of Materials annual poster...
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The annual Fusion Frontiers and Interfaces workshop took place at York Plasma Institute from 30 April to 4 May 2018. This workshop explores the frontiers of fusion research and the...
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We’re back! New glass, same seawater. A neat trick if you think about it. We’re kicking off with the favourite glass – favourite to win that is. This episode is...
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Robert Abernethy, a fourth year Fusion CDT student based at University of Oxford, reports on his recent internship: I recently spent three months away from my DPhil on materials for...
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Our launch party (coinciding with British Science Week 2018) included this episode recorded in front of a live public audience. We discuss 30 years of fusion progress – the things...
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The Faculty of Science and Engineering at University of Liverpool held it’s annual Postgraduate Research Poster Day in March 2018. Jack Leland (a second year Fusion CDT student based at University...
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Thirteen Fusion CDT students and six supervisors travelled to South Korea in February 2018 to attend a collaboration kick-off meeting on research relating to KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research)....
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Congratulations to Matt Thomas a York CDT student, who successfully defended his thesis at viva in March 2018. His thesis is entitled “3D full wave modelling of microwave interactions with plasma...
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Ok this one’s ended up a tall glass so we’re continuing where we left off – talking about the serious side of working with nuclear things. How we’re going to...
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We stirred into this glass all the extra garnish that make nuclear physics knowledge useful! We get strict about criteria and chat about the bottom line(s) for harnessing energy. How...
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Into this glass we poured everything we know about nuclear physics – the processes and demands of nuclear fusion in nature. Barely enough for a meniscus, so we did some...
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“The Energy Transition – What is the role of nuclear technology in a world of growing alternative power and digital innovation?” Following the approval of their essay abstract for the Spark!...
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Join the York Plasma Institute during British Science Week (Thursday 15th March 2018, 18:30pm) to celebrate the launch of our new podcast “A Glass of Seawater!” We will be recording an episode in front of...
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Congratulations to Asad Hussain who has recently successfully defended his thesis at viva. Asad is a University of Manchester student on the Fusion CDT, supervised by Professor Paul Mummery. Asad’s...
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Congratulations to Ashley who was awarded second best poster at the Central Laser Facility High Power Laser Christmas meeting 2017, which was held in Abingdon in December. Ashley is a...
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Applications are being accepted now for September 2018 entry to the Fusion CDT programme. The first deadline for plasma strand projects is Wednesday 31st January 2018 For details of Materials Strand project...
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York CDT student Matthew Dunn reports on the first year student’s recent teambuilding trip to the Peak District: “At the beginning of December, the first year fusion CDT cohort spent...
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Over 50 prospective postgraduate students took the opportunity to attend the Fusion Open Day at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) this week. Each year the Fusion CDT collaborates with...
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Congratulations to Sam Murphy-Sugrue who successfully defended his thesis at viva on 26 October 2017. Sam is a University of Liverpool student on the Fusion CDT, supervised by Professor James...
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We would like to congratulate Dave Blackman on successfully defending his thesis on Friday 20th October 2017. Dave is a University of York student on the Fusion CDT, supervised by...
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Congratulations to Jack Lovell who successfully defended his thesis at viva on 28 Sept 2017. Jack is a Durham University student on the Fusion CDT and was supervised by Professor...
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In September we welcomed our new cohort of Fusion CDT students across the five university partners. These new students are currently spending three weeks together here in York studying their...
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Congratulations to Dave Ryan who successfully defended his thesis at viva on Thursday 7 September 2017. His thesis is entitled “The Plasma Response to Applied Magnetic Perturbations for ELM Control In Tokamaks”...
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Each year the Fusion CDT collaborates with Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) to organise an open day for prospective postgraduate students. While Fusion is the headline topic, this spans...
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Hannah Willett recently finished her fourth year as a Fusion CDT student based at York. Whilst undertaking her PhD Hannah got involved with the ‘Binding Blocks’ outreach project and presented...
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On Wednesday 24th May 2017, the three nuclear energy EPSRC doctoral training centres collaborated to hold a high profile event which combined industry, education, and research. The collaboration included, the EPSRC Centre...
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Congratulations to Arka who successfully defended his thesis at viva. Arka’s thesis was entitled ‘On the self-consistent response of tokamak microinstabilities to plasma profile evolution’ and was supervised by Professor...
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This year’s Fusion Frontiers and Interfaces workshop took place at the York Plasma Institute from 08 to 10 May 2017. This is an annual postgraduate workshop exploring the frontiers of...
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Congratulations to Dave Thomas and his co-authors whose paper entitled ‘2D Doppler backscattering using synthetic aperture microwave imaging of MAST edge plasmas’ has been selected by Nuclear Fusion journal as...
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Robert Abernethy, a 3rd year Fusion CDT student based at the University of Oxford, was featured in a recent EUROfusion newsletter article entitled ‘Young Faces of Fusion’ after he organised...
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Congratulations to Ellie Tubman who successfully defended her thesis at viva on 12 December 2016. Ellie’s thesis was entitled ‘Magnetic field generation in laser –plasma interactions’ and was supervised by...
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Each year the Fusion CDT collaborates with Culham Centre for Fusion Energy to organise a Postgraduate student open day at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire. While Fusion is...
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On Wednesday 19 October 2016 the first year CDT students took part in a teambuilding afternoon at Sandburn Hall in York. The group were split into teams and completed a...
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In 2016, EUROfusion – the consortium of EU institutions that coordinates fusion energy research across Europe – commissioned an international panel of world-class experts to review all the fusion education...
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Hannah Willett, a fourth year Fusion CDT student based at the University of York, recently spent six weeks at the Australian National University (ANU).
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As part of my PhD with the Fusion CDT, I have spent two summer months working on a fusion experiment in the bustling and vibrant city of Chengdu, China. As...
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From 26th to 28th September 2016, Oxford Materials hosted the first European Student Divertor Research Workshop. 19 attendees from 10 institutes across Europe discussed topics relevant to the divertor region...
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Hannah Willett, a third year Fusion CDT student based at the University of York, won a student poster prize at the IOP Plasma Physics Conference which was held on the...
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This September, students from the Fusion CDT will be hosting the first European Students’ Divertor Research Workshop at the University of Oxford. This workshop will bring together students from across...
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Two Fusion CDT students won poster prizes at the recent European Physical Society Plasma Physics Conference, which was held in Leuven, Belgium from 4 to 8 July 2016. Arkaprava Bokshi,...
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Take a tour of the facilities at the University of Manchester’s Dalton Cumbrian Facility and the research being done by 4th year Fusion CDT student, Andrea Impagnatiello.
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Have a look at the research being done by our students in Oxford. Helen Pratt, 3rd year and Alex Leide 1st year Fusion CDT students explain how some of the...
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Valentin Aslanyan is a Fusion CDT student who has successfully defended his thesis recently. His thesis is entitled “Extreme ultraviolet lasers and their interactions with matter” and his supervisor is...
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Jarrod is a Fusion CDT student based at the York Plasma Institute who successfully defended his thesis at viva on 6 April 2016. Jarrod’s supervisor is Dr. Ben Dudson. Jarrod’s thesis...
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From 29 February to 1 April 2016 Leo Doehl participated in an experiment at Vulcan Target Area West at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Leo (at the back of the photo below)...
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Outreach activities have always been an important and valued part of the Fusion Doctoral Training Centre experience. However the students choose to be involved, from “behind the scenes work” to...
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This year’s Fusion Frontiers and Interfaces workshop took place at the York Plasma Institute from 25 to 27 April 2016. This was a postgraduate workshop exploring the frontiers of fusion...
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Fusion CDT students returned to Orion for two more weeks in November 2015, along with a team of visiting PhD students from the University of York, Queen’s University of Belfast, Imperial...
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Fusion CDT students, Jack Haley and Robbie Abernethy, recently attended the MINOS conference at CEA Cadarache Research Centre on Flux and Dose effects in Nuclear Materials. Cadarache should be a...
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Thanks to those of you who managed to come along to Culham Science Centre on Wednesday 25 November. We hope you enjoyed your visit and tours and that the talks...
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Arka Bokshi reports on his recent attendance of the MIT-hosted workshop, and subsequent prize win: I had the opportunity to present at the US/EU Transport Task Force Workshop, hosted by...
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The annual June meeting of the “Plasmas, Surfaces and Thin films” group took place at Loughborough University in June 2015. The programme consisted of ten oral and sixteen poster presentations. There...
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