Welcome to the 2020 Fusion CDT Cohort
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...
Congratulations James!
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...
Virtual Fusion Open day 2020 – recording available
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...
Apply now for PhD projects for Autumn 2021 entry!
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...
Congratulations Will!
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”...
16 DECEMBER 2020 – FUSION VIRTUAL OPEN DAY
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...
Fusion CDT students present fusion news
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...
Fusion Frontiers and Interfaces workshop 2020
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...
S4E2 – STEPisode
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...
Congratulations Michail!
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...