Odd Erik Garcia  –  Professor

Audun Theodorsen  –  Associate Professor

Jan Petter Hansen  –  Professor

Martin Møller Greve  –  Associate Professor

Laszlo Pal Csernai  –  Professor Emeritus

Gregor Decristoforo  –  Senior Engineer

Synne Brynjulfsen  –  Doctoral Research Fellow

Olga Paikina  –  Doctoral Research Fellow

Juan Manuel Losada  –  Postdoctoral Fellow

Rolf Annar Berg Nilsen  –  Doctoral Research Fellow

Anders Henry Nielsen  –  Adjunct Professor

Aurora Driveklepp Helgeland

Johannes Mørkrid  –  Doctoral Research Fellow

Postdoctoral research fellow position on laser fusion announced at UiB

At the Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, there is a vacancy for a postdoctoral research position within experimental quantum technologies for laser fusion experiments within the NAPLIFE collaboration. The position is for a fixed term of 3 years and is financed by the ongoing Fusion Research Center Norway (FUSENOW) supported by the Trond
Mohn Research Foundation.

The project aims to design, develop and characterize nano-fabricated targets for use in laser fusion experiments, to increase, and improve the target ignition and utilization. In addition to developing and fabricating the targets, a part of the project will be to build a test setup for target characterization at UiB. The most promising targets fabricated will be brought to the ELI-ALPs European laser-infrastructure at Szeged, Hungary, for characterization.

The postdoctoral position involves tasks such as designing, manufacturing and testing the laser fusion targets. The work will include simulation, experimental work, characterization and data analysis. The modelling and analysing of experimental results will be done in collaboration with the local and international NAPLIFE team. The candidate is expected to take an active part in the target design and the continuous development based on experimental results. The candidate will have the chance to take an active role in the development of the research and steer the target development together with the PI.

At UiB the candidate will have access to several lab-facilities with modern fabrication and characterization equipment. The work will be carried out in an active research environment as a member of Nanophysics group.

We encourage applicants that meet the requirements, with a strong motivation for experimental challenges and good ideas to apply.

The position is announced at Jobbnorge.

FUSENOW participation at the 29th EU-US Transport Task Force 

Four researchers from UiT The Arctic University of Norway and FUSENOW participated at the 29th EU-US Transport Task Force Workshop 2025, arranged in Budapest. The research center presented advances in statistical and computational description of the transport at the boundary of fusion devices through poster presentations and an oral contribution. The goal of the international Transport Task Force is to develop a physics-based understanding of particle, momentum and heat transport in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. This understanding should be of sufficient depth that it allows the development of predictive models of plasma transport that can be validated against experiment, and then used to simulate the future performance of burning plasmas and aid the design and optimization of next-step fusion energy reactors. The contributions at the workshop will be published in a special issue of the journal Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion.

New PhD fellow in FUSENOW

On August 18, 2025, Johannes Eiriksønn Mørkrid was employed as a PhD fellow in the FUSENOW center at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Mørkrid has his Bachelor studies in physics from NTNU and a master degree from UiT. The title of his doctoral thesis porject is "Numerical simulations of turbulence at the boundary of magnetically confined fusion plasmas". He will use mathematical modelling and high performance computations to investigate the turbulence-driven transport of particle and heat at the boundary of magnetically confined plasmas. Specifically, he will develop a simulation code in the programming language Julia to solve a set of coupled partial differential equations to simulate turbulent motions and fluctuation-induced transport of particle and heat in the scrape-off layer in fusion plasmas.