News - Fusion

  • Congratulations Ellie!

    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...

  • Excellent attendance at Culham Open Day

    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...

  • Teambuilding afternoon for first year CDT students

    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...

  • UK fusion education programme scores a perfect 10/10

    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...

  • Hannah’s research at the Australian National University

    Hannah Willett, a fourth year Fusion CDT student based at the University of York, recently spent six weeks at the Australian National University (ANU).

  • Joe’s research in Chengdu, China

    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...

  • European Student Divertor Research Workshop a Success

    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...

  • Prize winning poster at IOP Conference

    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...

  • Upcoming Event: European Students’ Divertor Research Workshop

    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...

  • Student Poster Prizes at EPS Conference

    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,...