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Interview of Arsène Tema Biwole Excellence in Africa Ambassador, EPFL

Published:04.05.22 — Arsène Tema Biwolé is a Cameroonian physicist, passionate about nuclear technologies and collaborates at the Swiss Plasma Center of EPFL.

EPFL and DeepMind use AI to control plasmas for nuclear fusion

Published:16.02.22 — Scientists at EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center and DeepMind have jointly developed a new method for controlling plasma configurations for use in nuclear fusion research.

European researchers achieve fusion energy record

Published:09.02.22 — Record-breaking 59 megajoules of sustained fusion energy demonstrates potential of fusion at the world-leading Joint European Torus (JET) facility in Oxford, UK

EUROfusion signs Horizon Europe Grant Agreement

Published:15.12.21 — With the signing of the official Grant Agreement, the EUROfusion consortium is ready to start its new, comprehensive approach to developing fusion energy. Written by Gieljan de Vries, EUROfusion

How Switzerland and the UK stayed part of EUROfusion

Published:14.12.21 — Two members of EUROfusion discovered that new political realities prevented them from directly joining EUROfusion under the EU new seven-year funding programme Horizon Europe. EUROfusion spoke the UK and Swiss partners about how collaboration within the consortium has enabled them to continue as part of the European fusion programme nonetheless. Interview by Gieljan de Vries, EUROfusion.

“The more you put into teaching, the more you get out”

Published:26.10.21 — Paolo Ricci, a physics professor at EPFL for over ten years, is the winner of this year’s "Polysphère d’Or" – an award given by students to honor teaching excellence.

New high-performance computing hub aims to harness the sun's energy

Published:23.03.21 — EPFL will soon be home to a European hub for high-performance computing focused on fusion power – a potential source of clean, risk-free energy. As part of this effort, EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center will lead a campus-wide, cross-disciplinary research team.

Joaquim Loizu granted the IUPAP 2020 Prize in plasma physics

Published:23.02.21 — Joaquim Loizu, a researcher at EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center, is the recipient of IUPAP’s (International Union of pure and applied physics) 2020 Young Scientist Prize in plasma physics. This prize is awarded annually to a young international scientist for outstanding research.

Heat loss control method in fusion reactors in Nature Communications

Published:17.02.21 — The core of a fusion reactor is incredibly hot. Hydrogen that inevitably escapes from it must be cooled on its way to the wall, as otherwise, the reactor wall would be damaged. Researchers from the Dutch institute DIFFER and EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center have developed a strict measurement and control method for the cooling of very hot particles escaping from fusion plasmas. This milestone for fusion research is published in Nature Communications. 

2020 Nuclear Fusion journal award to Prof. Christian Theiler

Published:23.12.20 — Prof. Christian Theiler received the IAEA's Nuclear Fusion Journal Award 2020 for his paper presenting ‘Results from recent detachment experiments in alternative divertor configurations on TCV’.