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I have done my master thesis at “Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión” (LNF) at CIEMAT (Madrid). I was there from March to September 2022 to work on the characterization of the confinement of energetic ions in optimized stellarators under the supervision of José Luis Velasco. Even though the LNF is known to have the stellarator TJ‐II (picture bellow), I worked with W7‐X. In that way, I numerically explore the evolution of fast particles losses over a scan of different configurations of W7‐X.

Between 11.Sep.2022 and 16.Sep.2022 I attended the IPP Summer University 2022 in Greifswald, Germany. This summer university focused on fusion plasma physics and it was held and organized by the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. Students from all over Europe and also from other continents participated in this event, so it was a perfect opportunity to meet young physicists from all over the world. During these 5 days, we had a lot of lectures about fusion plasma physics.

Last spring I went to the University of Liverpool to conduct an experimental internship there. I researched whether a low temperature atmospheric pressure plasma could be used to deposit an acrylic acid polymer onto an Indium Arsenide avalanche photodiode. This polymer would function to pacify leakage currents inherent to this type of photodiode which is very useful in applications such as metrology, chemical sensing and space applications. To perform this I learned a lot about semiconductor and plasma physics.