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.

Workshops

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


News

Licentiate defense March 10th
Emil Raaholt Ingelsten is planning to present his Licentiate thesis "Data-driven electrostatic heat flux closures with sparse regression" on 24 April 10 am in the PJ seminar room. Discussion leader will be Dr Thierry Passot, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice.
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.
Matthias Hölzl is our new adjunct professor January 26th
Matthias Hölzl from Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching will be affiliated with us as an adjunct professor. His professor installation lecture took place 21 January 13:30 in the PJ seminar room. We expect that his appointment will start from 1 February 2026.
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Upcoming events

Per Helander from Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald will visit between April 13th — 17th.


Thierry Passot from Université Côte d'Azur, Nice will visit between April 23rd — 24th.


Björn Zaar will go to Santa Fe, USA between April 27th — 29th. He will participate in the International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference.


Tünde Fülöp will go to Budapest between May 1st — 8th. She will attend meetings at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and visit BME.


Ida Svenningsson and Konrad Steinvall will go to Vienna between May 3rd — 8th. They will participate in the EGU General Assembly.


Derek Schaeffer from UCLA will visit between May 7th — 8th. He will give a seminar with the title “Laboratory Astrophysics with Laser-Driven Plasmas” on 7 May 14:15 in the von Bahr seminar room.


Vojtech Horný from ELI NP, Romania will visit between May 16th — 24th.


Michael Nastac from Oxford University will visit between May 21st — 22nd. He will give a seminar at the Subatomic, high energy and plasma physics seminar series.


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.


Ida Ekmark and Tünde Fülöp 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.


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.


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.


Contact details

Address
Department of Physics
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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