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

13th Runaway Electron Modelling meeting between June 15th — June 18th 2026


News

Throwing snowballs at home-made stars November 29th
A workshop devoted to discuss issues of relevance for disruption mitigation in tokamaks with massive material injection took place on 27 November. Agenda can be found at this [link](https://ft.nephy.chalmers.se/?p=conference&id=8).
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PhD defense of Oskar Vallhagen November 29th
Oskar Vallhagen defended his PhD thesis "Disruption mitigation in tokamaks with massive material injection" on 28 November.
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New adjunct associate professor October 1st
Vojtech Horný from ELI-NP, Romania is affiliated with us from 1 October 2025 as adjunct associate professor in physics, with specialization in laser plasma physics.
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Upcoming events

Tünde Fülöp will go to Oxford between December 15th — 20th. She will visit colleagues at Merton College and collaborate with Alex Schekochihin and his group at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at Oxford University.


Matthias Hölzl from Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching will visit between January 19th — 23rd. He will give a talk with the title “Transient phenomena and relativistic electrons in magnetically confined fusion plasmas” on 21 January 13:30 in the PJ seminar room.


Per Helander from Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald will visit between January 19th — 23rd.


Sarah Newton and John Omotani from UKAEA will visit between January 19th — 23rd.


Michael Nastac from Oxford University will visit on February 13th. He will give a seminar at the Subatomic, high energy and plasma physics seminar series.


Saskia Mordijck from William & Mary, Virginia, USA will visit on February 27th. She will give a seminar with the title "The plasma density from the bottom up" at the Subatomic, high energy and plasma physics seminar series.


Thierry Passot from Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur will visit between March 5th — 6th. He will be discussion leader at Emil Ingelsten's Licentiate defense and give a seminar at the Subatomic, high energy and plasma physics seminar series.


Shun Oshiro from Kyoto University will visit between March 10th — 17th.


Jimmy Juno from Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory will visit between March 16th — 20th. He will give a seminar at the Subatomic, high energy and plasma physics seminar series.


Vojtech Horný from ELI NP, Romania will visit between May 2nd — 10th.


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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