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Social Science Fusion Energy PhD
Application deadline: 31 August 2023. Supervisor 1: Dr Eva Heims (Department of Politics) Supervisor 2: Dr Marco Sakai (Department of Environment & Geography) Funding will be provided by the University...
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X-ray generation in high energy density plasmas (plasma strand project)
Supervisor: Christopher Ridgers (University of York) High power lasers produce extremely strong electromagnetic fields in their focus. The fields rapidly strip electrons from atoms to produce a plasma. These electrons...
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Laser-plasma based x-ray source development with applications in inertial fusion (plasma strand project)
Supervisor: Dr Chris Murphy (University of York) Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is one of the two mainstream approaches to fusion energy (along with MCF) and involves compression of hydrogen to...
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Measuring the plasma physics impact on nuclear reaction cross-sections and lifetimes (plasma strand project)
Supervisor: Dr Chris Murphy (University of York) & Andrew Simons (AWE) Fusion in supernovae or neutron star collisions are responsible for generating around half of all material consisting of elements...
Dust transport and mobilisation in Mast-U (plasma strand)
Supervisor: Dr Paul Bryant (University of Liverpool) Dust can have a significant impact on reactor performance and efficiency [1]. Energy can be radiated from the superheated dust cooling the core...
Developing a new approach to efficient, atomistically informed, dynamic compression simulations (plasma strand project)
Supervisor: Dr Andy Higginbotham (University of York) Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is one of a number of research fields which rely on the dynamic compression of materials. These approaches compress...
Non-linear modelling of fast particle interactions with MHD and disruptions in spherical tokamaks (plasma strand project)
Supervisors: Marco Cecconello (Durham University), Alexandre Fil & Christopher Ham (UKAEA) The path to high performance fusion power plants requires an understanding of the interaction between fast particles in the...
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Femtosecond imaging of ultra-relativistic plasma phenomena (plasma strand project)
Supervisors: Christopher Ridgers & Andrew Higginbotham (University of York) Modern high power lasers enable the focussing of light to extremely high intensities – up to 26 orders of magnitude higher...
Advanced inertial confinement fusion schemes (plasma strand project)
Supervisor: Dr John Pasley (University of York) The inertial confinement approach to fusion involves assembling small quantities of deuterium-tritium fuel to high densities and temperatures such that thermonuclear ignition and...
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Determining the role of plasma-molecule interactions on tokamak power exhaust (plasma strand project)
Supervisors: Dr Kirsty McKay (University of Liverpool), Kevin Verhaegh / James Harrison (UKAEA) In present-day tokamak experiments, there is strong evidence the interactions between plasma, atoms and molecules plays a...
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in the Science and Technology of Fusion Energy