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

Throwing snowballs at home-made stars on November 27th 2025

News

William Chalmers seminar October 11th

Tünde will give the [William Chalmers seminar](https://www.chalmers.se/en/current/news/f-faster-than-lightning-this-year-s-william-chalmers-lecturer-on-the-power-of-plasma-beams/) on 13 November 6pm in RunAn.

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.

Third XFLARE general assembly 28-29 Aug August 29th

The [Extreme Plasma Flares](https://kaw.wallenberg.org/en/research/data-space-probes-aiding-our-understanding-plasma-flares) project participants gathered at KTH to discuss electron acceleration due to magnetic reconnection in the Earth's magnetosphere. Tünde gave an overview of Chalmers activities in the area, Konrad presented "Beam and flattop distributions in collisionless reconnection", Istvan presented "Collisionless fluid modeling of instabilities and strategies to improve closures" and Ida talked about "Following up on the magnetosheath whistler waves".

PhD defense August 17th

Oskar Vallhagen is planning to defend his PhD thesis "Disruption mitigation in tokamaks with massive material injection" on Friday 28 November. The faculty opponent will be Sandor Zoletnik from HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research, Budapest. The members of the evaluation committee will be Boris Breizman, University of Texas at Austin, Akinobu Matsuyama from Kyoto University and Ramon Martin-Solis from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. In connection with this we will have a workshop with the title: "Throwing snowballs on home-made stars" on Thursday 27 November.

Upcoming events

Ida Ekmark will go to Washington DC, USA between August 31st — November 16th. She will work with Matt Landreman at the University of Maryland.

Ida Svenningsson will go to Paris between October 20th — 24th. She will participate in the Joint Cluster Plasma Observatory Workshop and will give an invited talk with the title."Electron energization by whistler waves in the Earth's magnetosheath”. Konrad Steinvall will also give an invited review talk with the title "Magnetic reconnection at collisionless shocks: current understanding and future investigations" at the same meeting (remotely).

NAISS user forum Dominika will participate in the NAISS user forum 22 October. She will give a talk with the title Batch Bayesian Optimization of Attosecond X-ray Bursts.

Tünde Fülöp will go to Budapest between October 23rd — 30th. She will participate in a meeting with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and give her inaugural lecture with the title "Faster than lightning".

Louis Richard from IRF Uppsala will visit between November 3rd — 7th.

Tünde Fülöp will go to Amsterdam between November 10th — 12th. She will participate in a visit of Dutch research institutes together with the physics class of KVA.

Emil Ingelsten and István Pusztai will go to Los Angeles, USA between November 17th — 21st. They will participate in the 67th APS Division of Plasma Physics meeting.

Sarah Newton and John Omotani from UKAEA will visit between November 24th — 29th.

Peter Halldestam from Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching will visit between November 24th — 28th.

Sandor Zoletnik from HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research, Budapest will visit between November 26th — 28th.

Mathias Hoppe, Linn Ekman, Albert Mollén and Lorenzo Votta from KTH, Stockholm will visit between November 26th — 28th.

Akinobu Matsuyama from Kyoto University will visit between November 26th — 29th.

Ramon Martin-Solis from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid will visit between November 27th — 28th.

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.

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

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.