Plasma theory

Welcome to the website of the plasma theory research group at Chalmers University of Technology. We belong to the Division of Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Workshops

Joint REM and WPTE RT03 Analysis meeting between June 15th — June 18th 2026


News

MSc presentation May 13th
Linus Hagedorn will present his MSc thesis [Numerical modelling of high harmonic generation in gases]( https://www.chalmers.se/en/current/presentation-of-master-thesis/physics-and-astronomy/?culture=en) on 4 June 14:00 in the von Bahr seminar room.
Licentiate defense March 10th
Emil Raaholt Ingelsten presented his Licentiate thesis "Data-driven electrostatic heat flux closures with sparse regression" on 24 April. Discussion leader was Dr Thierry Passot, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice.
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New postdoctoral scientist February 21st
Mattys Pouyez from Sorbonne University started his position as a postdoctoral researcher on 2 April. He joins the Wallenberg Scholar project: Creating and controlling beams in plasmas.

Upcoming events

Mattys Pouyez will go to Saclay between May 21st — June 4th. He has an invited talk with the title "Properties of electron-positron pair jets produced in the collision of ultra-intense laser pulses and electron beams" at ["Forum of the Ultrafast Community of Saclay"](https://focus.sciencesconf.org/).


Tünde Fülöp will go to Stockholm between June 8th — 10th. She will participate in meetings with KVA and IVA.


István Pusztai and Lise Hanebring will go to Kagoshima, Japan between June 8th — 12th. They will attend the MR2026 International Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection. Lise will have a presentation with the title "Magnetic field generation from Weibel seeds to saturated dynamo in collisionless plasmas beyond unit mass ratio", while Istvan will give a presentation on "A new dynamo seed generation mechanism from electron phase mixing in flows".


Ida Ekmark, Tünde Fülöp and William Weeks will go to Stockholm between June 15th — 18th. They will participate in the Runaway Electron Modelling meeting.


Tünde Fülöp will go to Edinburgh between June 25th — 29th. She will participate in the JPP Editorial Board meeting.


Ida Ekmark and Ida Svenningsson will go to Edinburgh between June 29th — July 3rd. They will participate in the EPS plasma physics conference.


Ida Svenningsson will go to Bern between July 6th — 10th. She will participate in an ISSI project: “Impact of stellar wind plasma turbulence on planetary magnetospheres in the heliosphere and beyond”.


Tünde Fülöp will go to Culham between July 16th — 18th. She has been invited to give a lecture on runaway electrons at the Culham Plasma Physics Summer School.


Tünde Fülöp will go to Stockholm between August 31st — September 2nd. She will participate in meetings with KVA.


Ida Ekmark will go to Varenna between September 21st — 25th. She has been invited to give a talk at the Varenna-Lausanne International Workshop on Theory of Fusion Plasmas.


Longqing Yi from Shanghai Jiao Tong University will visit between September 21st — October 5th.


Tünde Fülöp will go to Brussels between September 29th — 30th. She will participate in a meeting with EASAC energy panel.


Dominika Maslarova and Ida Ekmark will go to Busan, Korea between October 11th — 15th. They have been invited to give talks at the [AAPPS-DPP2026 Annual Conference](https://www.aappsdpp.org/DPP2026/). Dominika will talk about "Batch Bayesian optimization of attosecond betatron radiation in density-tailored laser wakefield acceleration" and Ida will present "Unlikely or unavoidable: runaway electrons in stellarators".


Tünde Fülöp will go to CEA Cadarache on October 29th. She will be president of the jury at Louis Puel's PhD defense.


Tünde Fülöp will go to London between November 26th — 27th. She will participate in a visit to the Royal Society, together with the physics class of KVA.


European Fusion Theory Conference The 22th edition of the European Fusion Theory Conference will be held at Chalmers, 20-23 September 2027.


Contact details

Address
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Chalmers University of Technology
SE-412 96 Göteborg
Sweden

Email: tunde at chalmers.se

Find us: The group's offices are on the top (3rd) floor of the Soliden part of the Physics building. The address is Fysikgården 1. This map shows various routes to find the place.

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