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.

News

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".

Upcoming events

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.

Michael Nastac from Oxford University will visit on February 13th.

Saskia Mordijck from William & Mary, Virginia, USA will visit on February 27th.

Jimmy Juno from Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory will visit between March 16th — 20th.

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.