Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching and Greifswald is one of the largest fusion research centres in Europe. It is concerned with investigating a new source of energy. Around 1100 employees in research, technology, craftsmanship and administration contribute to developing the physical basis for a fusion power plant, which, like the sun, is to generate energy from fusion of light atomic nuclei. At Garching, IPP is operating the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak. The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator is being investigated at the Greifswald Branch Institute of IPP. IPP was founded in 1960. It is an institute of the Max Planck Society and also associated to the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres. Since 1961 IPP has been an associate of the European Fusion Research Programme. The institute is funded by the European Union, the German Federal Government, and the State Governments of Bavaria and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. View open positions at IPP: https://www.ipp.mpg.de/10102/stellenImpressum: https://www.ipp.mpg.de/impressum
Location: Germany, Bavaria, Garching bei München
Employees: 501-1000
Founded date: 1960
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| 13.05.2024 | STELLAREX, INC. AND MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA PHYSICS SIGN MOU TO COLLABORATE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUSION ENERGY | New partnership in stellarator fusion energy devices set to advance the commercialization of fusion power production. PRINCETON, N.J., May 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Stellarex, Inc. announced today the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding... |
| 11.04.2024 | Proxima Fusion: A Stellar Rise in the Nuclear Fusion Race | In the competitive world of nuclear fusion startups, Proxima Fusion has emerged as a rising star, securing a hefty $21 million in funding to propel its innovative 'stellarator' approach to fusion energy. While the fusion industry has seen i... |
| 10.04.2024 | Proxima fusion raises €20M Seed to bring fusion energy to market | Proxima Fusion has raised €20M in seed funding less than a year after its €7.5M pre-seed round. With the climate crisis and energy sovereignty front-of-mind, European leaders recently renewed their commitment to nuclear energy at the EU Nuc... |
| 10.04.2024 | Germany’s Proxima Fusion bags €20M in Seed funding to build first-generation fusion power plants | Read this article in: Munich-based Proxima Fusion, the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), announced on Wednesday that it has raised €20M in a seed funding round led by redalpine and oversubscribed. The Ba... |
| 09.04.2024 | Proxima Fusion raises $21M to build on its ‘stellarator’ approach to nuclear fusion | Venture capitalists’ appetite for fusion startups has been up and down in the last few years. For instance, the Fusion Industry Association found that while nuclear fusion companies had attracted over $6 billion in investment in 2023, $1.4 ... |
| 17.11.2023 | Germany’s Proxima Fusion raises €7.5M to develop economically viable fusion power plants | Read this article in: Proxima Fusion, a Munich-based startup focused on developing emission-free fusion power plants, has secured a total of €7.5M with an extension to its pre-seed round of funding. Fusion energy, harnessed by power generat... |
| 31.05.2023 | A European champion for fusion: Proxima Fusion spins out of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics | May 30, 2023 |
| 30.05.2023 | Proxima Fusion captures a stellar €7 million raise to fund the design of fusion power plants | Munich-based Proxima Fusion has raised €7 million in Pre-Seed funding to fuel the development of a high-performance stellarator in a step towards building a first-of-a-kind fusion power plant within the 2030s. The start-up is a spin-out of ... |
| 30.05.2023 | Proxima Fusion spins out of Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics; raises €7M to build fusion power plants | Munich-based Proxima Fusion, a startup designing fusion power plants based on the stellarator concept, announced on Tuesday, that it has raised €7M in a pre-seed round of funding. Jorrit Lion, co-founder of Proxima and an expert in the mode... |
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