News releases 2024

After a one-year maintenance phase, the world's largest and most powerful stellarator resumes experimental operation with significant improvements. One of the goals: The plasma temperature is to be increased step by step. more

Christof Paar from the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in Bochum receives the prestigious award more

His new division investigates dynamic processes in plasmas that occur both in the confinement region and near the wall of nuclear fusion facilities. more

The “International Symposium for Space Simulation” took place at the IPP in Garching from August 1 to 9. IPP Director Prof. Frank Jenko co-organized the conference. He explains what fusion research can learn from astrophysics. more

Prof Sibylle Günter, Scientific Director of IPP comments on the delays in the world's largest fusion project more

Researchers from both partners met at the IPP in Greifswald on 18 June for the kick-off workshop. more

The European research consortium EUROfusion has had more than 100 fusion facilities in its member states independently assessed. The facilities of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) were consistently categorised in the best category ‘Indispensable’. more