Research

Research at the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik in Garching and Greifswald is organised in nine scientific divisions. In addition there are three junior research groups and two working groups at the universities in Bayreuth and Berlin.

They investigate confinement of high-temperature hydrogen plasmas in magnetic fields, develop plasma heating facilities and measuring methods for analysing plasma properties, deal with plasma theory, magnetic field technology, materials research and plasma-wall interaction, and conduct systems studies for fusion.