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Postdoctoral researcher position
The Materials group of the “Instituto de Fusión Nuclear Guillermo-Velarde” offers a postdoctoral research position to work on coating fabrication to work under extreme conditions (high temperature, irradiation and corrosion). More information in this link....
TITANS: Tritium Impact and Transfer in Advanced Nuclear reactorS
Granting of a European Project in the HORIZON-EURATOM call in which 21 research groups from 9 countries participate. The project entitled "Tritium Impact and Transfer in Advanced Nuclear reactorS" (TITANS) is multidisciplinary and aims to contribute to Research and...
Probing the Collision of a Supernova Ejecta with a Nearby Companion Star in the Laboratory
The group of High Energy Density Physics within the Instituto de Fusión Nuclear Guillermo Velarde accumulated a extensive expertise in the development and application of radiative hydrodynamic simulation codes during last 25 years. Recently, the HEDP group...
ESS Bilbao is making the main contribution to the Target Station at ESS
After six year of intense work, ESS Bilbao ends successfully the ESS (European Spallation Source) target system. Engineers from the division that ESS Bilbao has at the Instituto de Fusión Nuclear "Guillermo Velarde" at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid have been...
Machine Learning in nuclear science and engineering applications
Schematic figure of the analysis pathway that informs nuclear physics with differential and integral information (Neudecker et al, Phys. Rev. C 104, 034611) ML/AI methods have been introduced in nuclear reactor applications during the last decades; they contribute...
Eduardo Oliva receives a Leonardo research grant
The Leonardo research grant from Fundación BBVA are intended to support personal projects of researchers and cultural creators in intermediate stages of their careers, between 30 and 45 years old, which are characterized by significant scientific, technological or...
Summer Course: ‘La Energía del Futuro: Retos de la Fusión Nuclear’
The registration period for the course 'La Energía del Futuro: Retos de la Fusión Nuclear' organized by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and CIEMAT is open for apply now. This course will take place on July 12 and 13, 2021 in...
Plasma ionization exposed with ultra-short XUV light
Ionized matter, or plasma, is the most abundant known state of matter in our universe (rays, ionosphere, stars, accretion disks, etc ...) and has important technological applications (fluorescent tubes, plasma cutting, nuclear fusion, etc. …). Understanding this state...
Researchers at UNED have recently developed E-lite
According to Phys.org Tokamaks, devices that use magnetic fields to confine plasma into torus-shaped chamber, could play a crucial role in the development of highly performing nuclear fusion reactors. The ITER tokamak, which is set to be the largest nuclear tokamak in...
Two members of the IFN-GV take part in the European Physical Journal
The article "The joint evaluated fission and fusion nuclear data library, JEFF-3.3" has just been published in European Physical Journal. The article has O. Cabellos and P. Sauvan participation as members of the Instituto de Fusión Nuclear. This article collects the...
Post-doc position in ENTENTE project
The post-doctoral position is financed within the H2020 EURATOM project called ENTENTE (European Database for Multiscale Modelling of Radiation Damage). The expected contribution of the postdoctoral research will concern irradiation spectra uncertainty impact study on...
The IFN-GV participates in the III SecuDrone conference
On November 11 and 12, 2019 and organized by APTIE, the third SecuDRONE workdays that took place in the Aula Magna of the ETSII were held with the participation of the IFN-GV. More information: https://www.aptie.es/secudrone-3/
2018 Nobel Prize in Physics Conference Professor Gérard Mourou
Professor Gérard Mourou, from l'École Polytecnique de Paris adressed the conference Passion Extreme Light on May 29, 2018 in the Aula Magna of the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenierios Industriales (ETSII), invited by the IFN-GV in collaboration according with the...
Nano4energy has established a new laboratory at IFN-GV
Nano4Energy has established a new laboratory at the facilities of Instituto de fusion nuclear at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales.The company is a technology based company founded in 2010 by a group of young scientists and engineers active in...
The Book “Proyecto Islero”
The book Proyecto Islero. Cuando España pudo desarrollar armas nucleares (Editorial Guadalmazán, 2016) explains the development of a nuclear deterrence force that took place in Spain between 1963 to 1966 and from 1974 to 1978. Guillermo Velarde, professor chair of...
COST CA17126: Towards Understanding and Modelling Intense Electronic Excitation
The First General Meeting of the COST Action CA17126 was held at Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales (ETSII) belonging to Universidad Politécnica de Madrid on the 19th and 20th of November 2018. The Action was approved on April 2018, the first...
Using ultrashort laser pulses to “clone” gold nanoparticles
Researchers and students of the Instituto de Fusión Nuclear of the UPM participate in a work, published in the journal Science, which demonstrates that a solution with particles modified by ultra-short laser pulses has an optical quality never seen before. Researchers...