6th December 2017 – Fusion Open Day at Culham
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...
Watch Hannah using Binding Blocks to explain fusion energy
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...
Joint Nuclear Energy CDT Event
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...
Congratulations Arka!
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...
Fusion Frontiers and Interfaces Workshop 2017
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...
Nuclear Fusion Highlights of 2016
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...
CDT Student featured in EUROfusion newsletter
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...
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...
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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...
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in the Science and Technology of Fusion Energy