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 on home-made stars on November 27th 2025


News

Postdoc openings September 6th
We are looking for two postdocs to join our Plasma Theory team, one in [fusion plasma physics]( https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/work-with-us/vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=14180&rmlang=UK) and one in [laser plasma physics]( https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/work-with-us/vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=14158&rmlang=UK).
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".
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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.


Tünde Fülöp will go to Stockholm on September 29th. She will participate in a seminar at KVA.


Tünde Fülöp will go to Stockholm between October 7th — 8th. She will participate in meetings at KVA.


Ida Svenningsson and Konrad Steinvall will go to Paris between October 20th — 24th. They will participate in the Joint Cluster Plasma Observatory Workshop.


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 a seminar with the title "Faster than lightning".


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. He will participate in the 67th APS Division of Plasma Physics meeting.


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.


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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