Joanne Chorley
I am studying as part of the DTN under the supervision of Ray Sharples (Durham), Nigel Dipper (Durham) and Rob Akers (CCFE). My PhD is on Plasma Simulations on Emerging...
Jakob Brunner
My project involves the development of FPGA based high bandwidth diagnostics. Two main diagnostics will be my focus. 1. The new CO2-HeNe integral electron density interferometer for MAST-U. This system is designed...
Arkaprava Bokshi
I completed my Masters in Fusion Energy at the University of York in 2012, and have stayed on to do a PhD. Broadly speaking, my research area is Turbulence in...
Kris Bhojwani
Kris is currently a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Prof Steve Roberts and Dr Steven Fitzgerald. His DPhil (PhD) project is primarily based on...
James Beal
I am studying for a PhD under the joint supervision of Prof Kieran Gibson (York) and Dr Anna Widdowson (CCFE). My research focuses on erosion, deposition and material migration on...
Carmen Makepeace
My project is: ‘Fuel retention in plasma facing materials of the JET-ITER like wall.’ During my project I will be studying Beryllium using a combination of techniques such as Thermal...
Michail-Savvas Anastopoulos-Tzanis
I am a FCDT student at the University of York and my supervisors are Prof. Howard Wilson (University of York) and Dr. Christofer Ham (CCFE). H-mode tokamak plasmas are characterised by...
Michael Wigram
I graduated from the University of Manchester with an MPhys Physics degree, and am now studying for a PhD at York on the Fusion CDT programme. My PhD project is...
John Waite
I am a D.Phil student working under David Armstrong and Angus Wilkinson. My project is on characterizing the radiation damage in High Entropy Alloys. These are near equiatomic multi-component alloys...
Peter Ryan
I am a PhD student based at Liverpool University. Prior to the CDT I completed a Masters in Natural Sciences (Physics and Maths) at the University of Nottingham. Project title: ‘Electron...