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 Runaway Electron Modelling (REM) and WPTE RT03 Analysis meeting (2025) between June 2nd — June 6th 2025


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


News

MSc thesis presentations May 20th
Lise Hanebring, Nils Müller and Liam Antonsson plan to present their MSc theses on 10 June, 13-16:20 in the Eva von Bahr seminar room. Istvan Pusztai is the examiner for all three MSc students. Lise Hanebring will speak about "From magnetic field seed generation to dynamo in collisionless plasmas" 13:00-14:00. It can be followed on zoom via the link [here](https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/62452572114?pwd=daFN9pigWaUHkDRRGGsavI9lqzEoPN.1&from=addon). Supervisor is István Pusztai. Opponent is Liam Antonsson. Liam Antonsson will present "Electromagnetic modeling of the effect of plasma sheath on radar signatures of hypersonic targets" 14:10-15:10. It can be followed on zoom via the [link](https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/68504068099?pwd=ajUWKmwdOePpW61PhdKhSUzA2gBnxq.1&from=addon). Supervisor is Andréas Sundström. Opponent is Nils Müller. Nils Müller will talk about "Kinetic simulations of the proton-alpha instability in collisionless shocks" 15:20-16:20. It can be followed on zoom via the [link](https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/66511118346?pwd=AyVGa5AHrnmCp7uK4e1VmtJE55NhQv.1&from=addon). Supervisor is Konrad Steinvall. Opponent is Lise Hanebring.
Licentiate seminar May 11th
Ida Ekmark successfully defended her Licentiate thesis on 7 May. Discussion leader was Håkan Smith from the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany.
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New postdoctoral researcher April 30th
Ida Svenningsson will start her position as a postdoctoral researcher on 28 August. She will join the Wallenberg Scholar project: Creating and controlling beams in plasmas.
New PhD student April 25th
Lise Hanebring will start as a PhD student from 12 July. She will work on kinetic modelling of generation and release of magnetic field energy in plasmas, with a special focus on improving models of interactions between large-scale (global) and small-scale (kinetic) processes.

Upcoming events

Per Helander from Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald will visit between May 26th — 29th.


Björn, Ida, Oskar and Tünde will go to EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland between June 2nd — 6th. They will participate in the 12th Runaway Electron Modelling Meeting.


Tünde will go to Stockholm between June 11th — 12th. She will participate at meetings at KVA.


Tünde will go to Oxford between June 16th — 20th. She will be visiting scholar at Merton College.


Dominika and Tünde will go to Lund between July 7th — 11th. Dominika will present a poster with the title "Batch Bayesian optimization of attosecond betatron pulses from laser wakefield acceleration" at the [10th International Conference on Attosecond Science and Technology ](https://attox.se/).


Jan Vabek from ELI Beamlines will visit between July 14th — 15th.


Lise will go to Oxford between July 14th — 24th. She will participate in the [Culham Plasma Physics Summer School](https://culhamsummerschool.org.uk/).


Tünde will go to Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK between July 17th — 19th. She has been invited to give a lecture on runaway electrons at the [Culham Plasma Physics Summer School](https://culhamsummerschool.org.uk/).


Ida will go to Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory between July 21st — 23rd. She will participate in the [Theory and Simulation of Disruptions Workshop](https://pppltsdw.princeton.edu/).


Ida will go to Boston, USA between July 28th — August 8th. She will visit Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT.


Ida will go to Washington DC, USA between August 25th — November 14th. She will work with Matt Landreman at the University of Maryland.


Emil, István, Konrad, Lise and Tünde will go to Stockholm between August 28th — 29th. They will participate in the XFLARE general assembly.


Tünde will go to Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald between September 16th — 19th. She will participate in a meeting with the IPP Fachbeirat.


Dominika and István will go to AAPPS-DPP2025 conference (Fukuoka International Congress Center, Japan). between September 21st — 26th. Dominika has been invited to give a talk on "Batch Bayesian optimization of attosecond betatron pulses from laser wakefield acceleration". Istvan has been invited to give a talk with the title "From Weibel seed generation to saturated dynamo in collisionless plasmas with finite mass ratio".


Björn and Oskar will go to Aix-en-Provence between September 23rd — 26th. They will participate in the [European Fusion Theory Conference](https://indico.global/event/13788/).


PhD defense Oskar Vallhagen is planning to defend his PhD thesis "Disruption mitigation in tokamaks with massive material injection" on Friday 28 November. In connection with this we will have a workshop with the title: "Throwing snowballs on home-made stars" on Thursday 27 November.


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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