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During my master’s degree thesis project internship on density limit phenomena in stellarators: “Density limit in stellarators: experiments, modeling, and predictions”, in collaboration with CIEMAT (Madrid) and Università degli studi di Trieste funded by Fusenet, I developed and deepen strong competence and knowledge on Plasma fusion in magnetic confinement physics.

Only a few weeks to go before I will (hopefully) graduate. After my graduation, I am in the position to call myself a Master of Science in both Applied Physics and Science and Technology of Nuclear Fusion. Before I finish my report and start preparing for the oral presentation and the defense, I decided that I wanted to experience one additional aspect of the life of a physicist/researcher: attending a conference!

The 15th CMSS was hosted at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, Belgium. This venue on its own made it unique and interesting to me, as I was able to watch the soldiers do their daily practice routines and even had some of them taking lectures with us. The strict rules around the premises were also interesting to see and experience. 

It’s like a painting. Behind the lake of Geneva mountains rise with snow-topped caps that form the beautiful background of the EPFL campus, the location of the 2024 JOREK general meeting. The JOREK general meeting is a great opportunity to meet other JOREK users and show new results, discuss problems and generally help each other, which I was able to attend thanks to the generous funding from FuseNet. 

I’ve done my graduation project at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany, where I’ve stayed between June 2023 and February 2024. My work there consisted of the implementation of the avalanche source for kinetic relativistic electrons in the 3D magnetohydrodynamics code JOREK. During disruptions in tokamaks, the thermal energy of the plasma is very quickly lost, causing the resistivity of the plasma to increase. This leads to the decay of the plasma current, which, due to the plasma self-inductance, in 

My name is Matteo Maria Robaldo, I’m 25 and I attended the Master of Science in Energy and Nuclear Engineering at Polytechnic of Turin where I graduated this March. As a final part of my studies, I spent 3 months in Belgium, more precisely at the KU Leuven university, where I developed my master thesis on Computational modelling of the plasma boundary exploiting the SOLPS-ITER code. In this article, I will describe first my working experience with the KU Leuven 

From August 21 2023 to March 13 2024, I worked within the Complex Plasmas research group at the Space and Plasma Physics Division of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, in order to develop my MSc thesis in Nuclear Engineering. Here, I had the pleasure to contribute to a research project aiming to improve the current understanding of the steady-state remobilization of metallic dust in tokamaks by means of Particle-In-Cell numerical modeling. For this purpose, I also 

I study at the TU/e in the master science and technology of nuclear fusion but because I already have a master in electromechanical engineering, I wanted to continue learning about control engineering. Therefore I talked with DIFFER for an internship and they delivered. I also wanted to go to Japan since I did karate and that country fascinates me. DIFFER gave me a project named: “Non-linear optimal controller for Wiener systems using the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for exhaust control”. I went to Nanzan university in Nagoya since the professor (N.

From 8 of January to 22 of February of this year, I had the privilege of doing my graduation project at the Tokamak Energy Ltd in Oxfordshire, England. In collaboration with the team, I investigated how PF coils currents and voltages evolve in spherical tokamak for a replacement with HTSs. Extensive modeling activities have been undertaken such as TRUST (Tuscia Research University Small Tokamak), a new small tokamak currently being designed at the University of Tuscia.