Dr. Tony Donné, head of the Fusion Physics department at Rijnhuizen, has been appointed part-time professor at Eindhoven Technical University. He will investigate Diagnostics of Fusion Plasmas at the Faculty of Applied Physics, within the...
1 December 2009
The FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen has received a SenterNovem EOS-NEO grant ('Energie Onderzoek Subsidie - Nieuw Energie Onderzoek') of €100.000 for research on cheap metal oxide...
30 November 2009
The FOM Valorisation Chapter Prize, which will be awarded for the first time in Januari 2010, will be conferred to dr. Tim Tsarfati. He receives the prize for the last chapter of his PhD thesis "...
25 November 2009
A Dutch research programme lead by dr. Tony Donné of the FOM Institute Rijnhuizen will investigate the properties of high temperature fusion plasmas. Hot fusion plasmas of 150 million degrees...
The FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen has received an FO male/female stimulation grant from the FOM Foundation, to retain the Veni award winner Dr Anouk Rijs on staff. A sum of over € 200,...
Researchers from FOM-Rijnhuizen have refined the calibration of the standard procedure to measure wall erosion in future fusion reactors. Ph.D. student Jeroen Westerhout discovered that the calibration...
In 1959, the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen was founded to become the Dutch home base for research into fusion energy. Fifty years later, Rijnhuizen is a succesfull and divers research institute...
30 September 2009
Researchers of the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen have shown that the solvent used in ElectroSpray Ionisation (ESI), a commonly used...
18 September 2009 A group of researchers from Rijnhuizen, together with colleagues from Denmark and Germany, has discovered that so-called magnetic islands in fusion reactors can reflect microwaves. Their result was...
8 September 2009
The FOM Board of Governors has appointed Professor Niek Lopes Cardozo as the new Chairman of the Board of Governors and of the Executive Board of FOM. In addition, the Governing Board of the Netherlands...
25 augustus 2009
The FOM Executive Board has appointed Professor Wim van Saarloos (1955) Director of FOM Foundation, effective 1 November 2009. He succeeds Dr Hans Chang, who stepped down in early July after 24 years with...
5 August 2009
Minister Maria van der Hoeven (Economic Affairs) has announced that she is supporting ITER-NL2, the follow-up programme of ITER-NL, with 8 million euros from the so-called FES-budget (Fonds Economische...
29 July 2009
On the Nature-website, physicist Bob Nagler (Oxford University) and his international colleagues present a breakthrough in the field of non-linear optics.
15 July 2009
Dr. Jos Oomens has been appointed professor of Action Spectroscopy by special appointment of the Stichting Physica. His research at the Amsterdam University's Faculty of Science will focus on Action...
14 July 2009
On Friday, July 10th, the permanent Rijnhuizen delegation said goodbye to their colleagues at the Jülich TEXTOR-tokamak. Researchers from Rijnhuizen did experiments at Jülich since the late '80s.
23 June 2009
Researchers and engineers at the Dutch FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen have reached the second major milestone in the construction of the plasma wall experiment Magnum-PSI. They completed the...
25 May 2009
Dutch researchers from the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen and the Technical University Eindhoven have successfully tested a new system to keep instabilities in future fusion reactors in check. Their...
29 April 2009
"Very good to excellent" is how an international external evaluation panel, chaired by prof. dr. Friedrich Wagner (director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics), judged the FOM Institute...
16 April 2009
Prof.dr. Niek Lopes Cardozo, head of the Fusion Physics department at FOM-Rijnhuizen, is leaving the institute to assume a full professorship at Eindhoven Technical University (TU/e).
3 April 2009
Also this year the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen organizes open houses for students and for the public. The open house for students takes place on Thursday 15 October 2009. The public open house...
31 March 2009
Although biologically relevant molecules are widely studied by mass spectrometry, many fundamental questions regarding their gas-phase structure remain, even for the simplest bio-active molecules. Using the...
26 February 2009
The completion of Magnum-PSI's vacuum system attracted quite some publicity. On Monday, February 23th, the Dutch science radio show Hoe?Zo! (Teleac) broadcasted interviews with Wim Koppers, Amy Shumack and...
10 February 2009
Post-doctoral researcher dr. Jan-Willem Blokland of the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen, the Dutch centre for fusion research, has received one of the ten prestigious Fusion Research Fellowships...
4 February 2009
An international group of researchers including prof.dr. Wybren Jan Buma from the University of Amsterdam and dr. Anouk Rijs of the FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen have published detailed...
28 January 2009
Researchers and engineers of the FOM Institute Rijnhuizen have recently completed the vacuum system of the new plasma-wall-experiment Magnum-PSI and have found that it behaves exactly as designed. According...
16 December 2008
If you visited our Open House on October 19th, you were probably amazed by the enormous crowds of people visiting the Institute. Careful observers also saw a student with a handheld camera walking around....
International cooperation with Russion institutes will investigate fundamentals of fusion 18 November 2008
The Dutch government, via funding agency NWO, has awarded Rijnhuizen a 500 k€ Centre of...
3 November 2008
Thursday 30th of October a teaching module on nuclear fusion for secondary school pupils was certified by the Dutch Ministry of Education. This assures that the module will now become part of a new subject...
30 September 2008
Where does energy come from, how does our use of energy impact our environment and how will we meet our energy needs in the future? In the recent Dutch translation of his book Energy, powering your world,...
1 August 2008
Scientists from Germany, Canada and The Netherlands have studied tiny gold nanoparticles, so-called clusters, and found them to have fascinating arrangements of their constituent atoms. For example, twenty...
23 July 2008
The KSTAR, a fully superconducting tokamak device with advanced Nb3Sn superconducting technology, has come a long way with all critical aspects resolved and successfully tested after "assembly completion...
19 June 2008
The report contains an overview of events of the last year, a discussion of the most important scientific results and a "visitors guide", i.e. a chapter that describes the scope of all scientific and...
18 June 2008
The ITER Organisation announced on 18 June that the programme and planning of the ITER nuclear fusion experiment have been rescheduled. The new schedule expects the ITER experiment to begin in 2018, a change of...
18 June 2008
Rijnhuizen PhD Ivo Classen is awarded the 2008 EPS Plasma Physics Division PhD Research Award for his thesis entitled 'Imaging and Control of Magnetic Islands in Tokamaks'. The price was awarded during the...
29 May 2008
Tuesday May 20th Rijnhuizen was host to a group of around 30 presenters of physics shows from all over the Netherlands. The Regional Benelux group of the EuroPhysicsFun network (EPF), of which Rijnhuizen’s...
18 April 2008
Fusion for Energy (F4E), the organization for Europe's contribution to ITER, unlocks new business opportunities for industry by launching its first ever procurement.
18 April 2008
Researchers at the Universiteit van Amsterdam together with colleagues from the United States, Scotland and Italy have now developed a molecular template that applies a specific shape to the molecule they want...
Professor Niek Lopez Cardozo gave the opening speech 11 March 2008
Over seven hundred high school students from all over the world got together in New York on 6-7 March for an annual student UNIS (United...
21 February 2008
On Tuesday 19 February the Minister of Economic Affairs, Maria van der Hoeven, made a working visit to the site of the ITER nuclear fusion experiment, to which the Netherlands is an important contributor,...
14 February 2008 TU Delft has conferred an Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professorship on physicist Dr. Paul Planken. The Antoni van Leeuwenhoek chairs at TU Delft were created to promote outstanding scientists to the position of...
Within the STW Thin Film Nanomanufacturing program, a 4-year research project on multilayer optics 'beyond EUV' has been granted to FOM and the Solid State Physics/MESA+ Institute at the University of...
