14 December 2018 – fusion open day at Culham
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...
Aneeqa in the news
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...
S2E4 – 99 Percent of Nearly Everything
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...
Pride in London – July 2018
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...
Congratulations Hannah!
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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S2E3 -Blood, Sweat and Materials Science
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...
Energy CDT Summer School 2018
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...
Nuclear Photonics 2018 – poster award for Chris Underwood
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...
Let there be light
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...
How do you confine a Sun to a box?
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...
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Fusion Power
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in the Science and Technology of Fusion Energy