Haange is New Technical Director for ITER:

The ITER Council have appointed Dr Remmelt Haange from the IPP deputy director-general. Since January 2011, Haange is responsible for building the international test reactor ITER, which is being constructed under world-wide co-operation in Cadarache in the South of France. Remmelt Haange has already accompanied the building of several large fusion devices: As Technical Director, he oversaw the building Wendelstein 7-X at the IPP Branch Institute in Greifswald. Prior to this, he was a contributor in the planning and modification of the European joint experiment JET as well as in the plans for ITER. Dr Haange studied mechanical engineering and did his PhD at the RWTH in Aachen . As of 1973, he worked on the Dragon high-temperature reactor, an OECD project in Winfrith, England. He then established a work group for the multinational High Temperature Materials Programme at Wimborne, England. In 1979, he switched to fusion research in the service of Euratom and headed a group for planning the plasma heating for the European joint project JET (Joint European Torus). Eight years later he took charge of the Fusion Technology Division and as of 1992 he was responsible for managing the extensive modification work on the JET device and for a team of around 600 staff members. In 1993, he joined the Japanese ITER planning group at Naka as head of the Nuclear Technologies Division; in 2003 he was appointed head of the Japanese ITER site. He joined the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics at Greifswald in 2005.

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