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

New postdoctoral scientist February 21st

Mattys Pouyez from Sorbonne University will start his position as a postdoctoral researcher on 6 April. He will join 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.

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).

PhD defense of Oskar Vallhagen November 29th

Oskar Vallhagen defended his PhD thesis "Disruption mitigation in tokamaks with massive material injection" on 28 November.

Upcoming events

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.

Shun Oshiro from Kyoto University will visit between March 9th — 18th.

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.

Tünde Fülöp will go to Oxford University between April 6th — 10th.

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

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

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

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.

Ida Ekmark and Tünde Fülöp will go to Stockholm between June 15th — 18th. They will participate in the REM meeting.

Tünde Fülöp will go to Edinburgh between June 26th — 28th. 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 will give a lecture on runaway electrons at the Culham Plasma Physics Summer School.

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.