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The EUROfusion consortium has announced the winners of this year’s prestigious Bernard Bigot Researcher Grants (ERG) and Engineering Grants (EEG), selecting nine ERG and fourteen EEG recipients from leading institutions across Europe. These awards celebrate scientific excellence and innovative thinking, supporting Europe’s next generation of fusion specialists on the path toward delivering fusion energy.
Named in honour of former ITER Director-General Bernard Bigot, the EUROfusion Researcher Grants recognise exceptional postdoctoral scientists developing creative and impactful ideas aligned with the EUROfusion Roadmap to Fusion Energy. All grant recipients were chosen through a rigorous evaluation and interview process led by panels of retired fusion experts, ensuring fairness and the highest scientific standards, while also promoting diversity and inclusion.
We are delighted to share that our postdoctoral researcher Giulia Marcer is among the nine ERG awardees, with a project titled “Development of diamond spectrometers combined with AI techniques for absolute neutron measurements in magnetic confinement fusion (D-AI)”. This innovative approach aims to provide the scientific community with a new neutron-based method for measuring fusion power in tokamaks: one that will no longer rely on extensive in-vessel calibration campaigns. The technique will be developed at ISTP in Milan, in collaboration with the Neutron and Gamma-Ray Group, whose expertise will be essential to the success of the project.
