On April 23 and 24, 2025, LPP-ERM/KMS hosted the 50th General Assembly of EUROfusion at the Club Prince Albert in Brussels. The EUROfusion consortium funds research among its members (in 26 EU member states) on the basis of the “European roadmap to fusion energy” as a joint program under Euratom Horizon Europe. Almost all the […]
Read MoreIn the framework of the study MinICPED (“Minimization of Ion Cyclotron Parasitic Edge Dissipation”), we are looking for a full-time researcher in plasma physics with a PhD degree in plasma physics. Please got to https://fusion.rma.ac.be/job-offers/ for more details. Application deadline is 25/05/2025.
Read MoreThe 20th International Workshop on Plasma Edge Theory in Fusion Devices (PET-20) is organized by the KU Leuven, Ghent University and LPP ERM/LMS. It will be held from Tuesday September 23 to Friday September 26, 2025, at KU Leuven, Leuven. The workshop will reflect the present status of the theory of the edge region in […]
Read MoreOn Thursday 10 October 2024, Johan Buermans brilliantly defended his Phd thesis and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Engineering Physics (UGent) and Doctor of Engineering Sciences (RMA). This work is a joint UGent-RMA doctorate performed under the supervision of Prof. Kristel Crombé (UGent, LPP) and Prof. Michael Van Schoor (RMA, LPP). The title […]
Read MoreLPP members Yevgen Kazakov and Jef Ongena collaborated to a new article on Deuterium-Tritium plasma physics published in September 2024 in the prestigious journal “Nature Communications”. The paper is called Stable Deuterium-Tritium plasmas with improved confinement in the presence of energetic-ion instabilities and is available in open-access from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52182-z.
Read MoreDuring the annual meeting of the Belgian Physical Society, hold at the VUB on 29/05/24, the LPP was very present with an oral presentation given by Dirk Van Eester during the session “Geo-, Astro- and Plasma Physics”, as well as no less than 5 posters defended by our researchers: Philippe Lamalle, Bernard Reman, Daniel López-Rodríguez, […]
Read MoreOn Tuesday April 9, 2024, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., a new conference will take place, organized by the Royal Military Academy: Wall conditioning studies for nuclear fusion research using flexible experimental environment of the TOMAS device by Dr Kristel Crombé & Dr Andrei Goriaev. The abstract and the link to the video on […]
Read MoreTOMAS is a middle-size toroidal machine in Forschungszentrum-Jülich (Germany) equipped with GD, ECRF, and ICRF heating systems, various diagnostics and material exposure equipment. It allows for wall conditioning, plasma production, and plasma-surface interaction studies. It is operated by a team from the LPP. More details here.
Read MoreThe scientific programme of CMSS-2024 will cover different theoretical, experimental and technological aspects of magnetic confinement fusion: • Tokamaks and stellarators• Theory and modeling fusion plasmas• Plasma heating, current drive and fast-ion physics• Plasma transport and confinement• Plasma-wall interaction• Fusion reactor materials• Plasma diagnostics and data analysis• Future fusion reactors: ITER and DEMO Most lectures […]
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