The ATLAS experiment is one of four large experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) facility at CERN, and one of two general-purpose detectors designed to explore a wide range of questions about the fundamental constituents of matter and the forces of nature. ATLAS has already published a large volume of physics results, including the 2012 discovery of the Higgs Boson.

The advanced operation of a future fusion power reactor will give rise to a set of global mode instabilities that must be controlled. The aim of this project is to study these modes and control them by adding weak magnetic fields through an active feedback system.

The European XFEL is a more than 3 km long free electron laser (FEL) commissioned in Hamburg 2017. Here electrons emit X-rays (1 Å) in light pulses of high power and with laser-like properties that can be used to film molecular reactions and investigate atomic detail of viruses and cells. Instrumentation physics has been involved in several projects in the construction phase and we are currently investigating unwanted ionizing radiation causing demagnetization of permanent magnet material in the undulator.