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

Mathias Hölzl becomes our new adjunct professor December 22nd
Matthias Hölzl from Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching will be affiliated with us as an adjunct professor. His professor installation lecture will take 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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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

Workshop Tünde will participate in a workshop about "Innovations in Ultrafast Laser Science", 15-16 January. This workshop is part of the Swedish Research Council network grant for planning future excellence clusters for groundbreaking technologies.


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.


Dominika Maslarova and Linus Hagedorn will go to Lund between January 22nd — 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.


Licentiate Seminar Emil Ingelsten plans to present his Licentiate seminar on 6 March. Discussion leader will be Thierry Passot.


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.


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


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


Tünde Fülöp will go to Edinburgh between June 26th — 28th. She will participate in the JPP Editorial Board meeting.


Björn Zaar, Ida Ekmark, Ida Svenningsson and Tünde Fülöp will go to Edinburgh between June 29th — July 3rd. They will participate in the EPS plasma physics conference.


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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