We offer master thesis topics in the following areas of fusion research:

Fusion data science

Real-time integrated Bayesian reconstruction of magnetic equilibria and kinetic profiles for the DEMO fusion reactor

Promoter: Prof. Geert Verdoolaege
Supervisor: Jeffrey De Rycke
Study programs: Master of Science in Engineering Physics, Master of Science in Physics and Astronomy, Master of Science in Teaching in Science and Technology (Physics and Astronomy), European Master of Science in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics
Location: Technicum, at home

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Integrated analysis of electron densities and temperatures using probe and interferometry diagnostics on TOMAS

Promoter: Prof. Geert Verdoolaege, Prof. Kristel Crombé
Supervisor: Dr. Yangyang Zhang
Study programs: Master of Science in Engineering Physics, Master of Science in Physics and Astronomy, Master of Science in Teaching in Science and Technology (Physics and Astronomy), European Master of Science in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics
Location: Technicum, at home

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Reconstruction of high spatial resolution density profiles with interferometry and Thomson scattering using neural networks

Promoter: Prof. Geert Verdoolaege
Supervisor: Dr. Yangyang Zhang, Dr. Azarakhsh Jalalvand
Study programs: Master of Science in Engineering Physics, Master of Science in Physics and Astronomy, Master of Science in Teaching in Science and Technology (Physics and Astronomy), European Master of Science in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics, Master of Science in Information Engineering Technology
Location: Technicum, at home

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Advanced detection of plasma instabilities in tokamaks using machine learning

Promoter: Prof. Geert Verdoolaege
Supervisor: Jerome Alhage
Study programs: Master of Science in Engineering Physics, Master of Science in Physics and Astronomy, Master of Science in Teaching in Science and Technology (Physics and Astronomy), European Master of Science in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics, Master of Science in Information Engineering Technology
Location: Technicum, at home

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Predicting divertor heat flux profiles from upstream plasma measurements using machine learning

Promoter: Prof. Geert Verdoolaege
Supervisor: Nastasija Petkovic
Study programs: Master of Science in Engineering Physics, Master of Science in Physics and Astronomy, Master of Science in Teaching in Science and Technology (Physics and Astronomy), European Master of Science in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics
Location: Technicum, at home

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Automatic captioning of fusion physics figures with image-to-text AI

Promoter: Prof. Geert Verdoolaege
Supervisor: Jerome Alhage
Study programs: Master of Science in Engineering Physics, Master of Science in Physics and Astronomy, Master of Science in Teaching in Science and Technology (Physics and Astronomy), European Master of Science in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics, Master of Science in Information Engineering Technology, Master of Science in Information Engineering Technology
Location: Technicum, at home

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Magnetohydrodynamics and kinetic modelling

Modelling of plasma transport in tokamak scrape-off layers

Promoter: Prof. Sven Van Loo
Supervisor: Prof. Sven Van Loo
Study programs: Master of Science in Engineering Physics, Master of Science in Physics and Astronomy, Master of Science in Teaching in Science and Technology (Physics and Astronomy), European Master of Science in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics
Location: Technicum, at home

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Accelerating the Vlasov code kobra with GPUs

Promoter: Prof. Sven Van Loo
Supervisor: Prof. Sven Van Loo
Study programs: Master of Science in Engineering Physics, Master of Science in Physics and Astronomy, Master of Science in Teaching in Science and Technology (Physics and Astronomy), European Master of Science in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics
Location: Technicum, at home

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Bowshock modelling in dusty plasmas

Promoter: Prof. Sven Van Loo
Supervisor: Prof. Sven Van Loo
Study programs: Master of Science in Physics and Astronomy, Master of Science in Teaching in Science and Technology (Physics and Astronomy), European Master of Science in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics
Location: Technicum, at home

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Ion cyclotron plasma heating and wall conditioning

Exploring plasma-surface interactions in fusion devices

  • Promotor: Prof. Kristel Crombé
  • Mentors: Luis Daniel Lopez Rodriguez, Johan Buermans, Arthur Adriaens
  • Study programs: Master of Science in Engineering Physics, Master of Science in Physics and Astronomy, Master of Science in Teaching in Science and Technology (Physics and Astronomy), European Master of Science in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics
  • Location: Research Centre Juelich (Germany), Royal Military Academy (Brussels), at home

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Implementation of a tangential electron cyclotron wave injection system on the TOMAS device

  • Promotor: Prof. Kristel Crombé
  • Mentors: Luis Daniel Lopez Rodriguez, Johan Buermans, Arthur Adriaens
  • Study programs: Master of Science in Engineering Physics, Master of Science in Physics and Astronomy, Master of Science in Teaching in Science and Technology (Physics and Astronomy), European Master of Science in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics
  • Location: Research Centre Juelich (Germany), Royal Military Academy (Brussels), at home

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