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
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
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
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
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
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
Location: Technicum, at home
Application of machine learning for classification of failure modes in structural materials for fusion devices
Promoters: Prof. Geert Verdoolaege, Prof. Dmitry Terentyev
Supervisors: Prof. Geert Verdoolaege, Prof. Dmitry Terentyev
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, SCK CEN (Mol), at home
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
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
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
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
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