• 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...

  • Steve Biggs

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    I completed an MSci in Physics at the University of Nottingham in 2008. I then worked for an engineering consultancy in the nuclear industry for 6 years, followed by 1...

  • Philip Bradford

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    My PhD project is entitled An All Optical Platform for Magnetised Inertial Fusion and HEDP Research and is supervised by Prof Nigel Woolsey. I will be studying how external magnetic...

  • Eleanor Tubman

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    I am a Fusion-CDT student studying at the University of York for a PhD under the supervision of Dr Nigel Woolsey. My research involves looking into magnetic reconnection where two...