• Andrew Smith

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    I have just finished a 4 year integrated Masters in Physics at Oxford University and have moved to work with Prof. Damian Hampshire in the Durham University superconductivity group. The...

  • Bhavin Patel

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    My project is title ‘In Search of Compact Routes to Fusion’, which is being supervised by Dr David Dickinson and Prof. Howard Wilson. The size of a fusion device is...

  • Simon Orchard

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    I am working on the project, ‘Using advanced camera image and data analysis to address an important hurdle for magnetic fusion energy’, supervised by Prof Bruce Lipschultz and Dr James...

  • Thomas Nicholas

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    One of the biggest obstacles to achieving commercial fusion energy is the excessive heat and particle fluxes that the divertor (exhaust system) of future magnetic-confinement fusion reactors will be subject...

  • Omkar Myatra

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    An important challenge that must be addressed in order to make MCF commercially viable is that of power handling. Future high power fusion devices will need to have very good...

  • Andrew Malcolm-Neale

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    Fusion CDT PhD candidate supervised by Istvan Cziegler (YPI) and Anthony Field (CCFE) having read Bsc(Hons) Logic and Philosophy of Science & Physics at Uo St Andrews and then MSc...

  • Jack Leland

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    I am a CDT student under the joint supervision of Prof James Bradley at the University of Liverpool and Dr Sarah Elmore at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy CCFE. Langmuir...

  • Jack Greenwood

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    I am a postgraduate student at Durham and am investigating the mechanisms that determine the strain dependence of the critical current density of technological high temperature superconductors (HTS), in 1D...

  • Sam Gibson

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    After completing a Master’s degree in Physics at Durham University, I am now undertaking a joint research project between Durham and CCFE under the supervision of Prof Ray Sharples and...

  • Lara Debenham

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    The conditions inside fusion reactors are exceptionally hostile, involving both high temperatures and severe levels of neutron irradiation. All candidate materials for the blanket material are metallic alloys that possess...