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

12th Runaway Electron Modelling (REM) meeting 2-6 June June 9th
Ida, Oskar, Björn and Tünde participated in the 12th REM meeting at EPFL in Lausanne, with a record of 89 participants from 33 institutes around the world. The REM meeting series was started at Chalmers 2013 and is organized yearly since then (except for 2021). Next year it will be organized by Mathias Hoppe at KTH, Stockholm.
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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 11 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

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


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


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


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


Emil Ingelsten, Ida Svenningsson, István Pusztai, Konrad Steinvall, Lise Hanebring and Tünde Fülöp will go to Stockholm between August 28th — 29th. They will participate in the XFLARE general assembly.


Tünde Fülöp will go to Stockholm on September 1st. She will participate in a workshop arranged by KVA and VR.


Per Helander from Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald will visit between September 7th — 14th.


Tünde Fülöp will go to Stockholm between September 9th — 11th. She will participate in meetings at KVA.


Ida Svenningsson will go to International Space Science Institute, Bern between September 15th — 19th. She will participate in a joint meting for two ISSI teams: [Evolution of Turbulence in the Expanding Solar Wind](https://teams.issibern.ch/turbulencesolarwind/) and [Unveiling Energy Conversion and Dissipation in Non-Equilibrium Space Plasmas](https://teams.issibern.ch/nonequilibriumspaceslasmas/).


Tünde Fülöp 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 Maslarova and István Pusztai 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". In addition, Tünde is co-author on a contribution "Towards scalable large-scale model validation with data science" by A Järvinen from VTT, Finland.


Björn Zaar and Oskar Vallhagen will go to Aix-en-Provence between September 23rd — 26th. They will participate in the [European Fusion Theory Conference](https://indico.global/event/13788/). Oskar will give an invited talk on "Semi-analytical model for the pellet rocket effect in magnetic confinement fusion plasmas".


Tünde Fülöp will go to Stockholm on September 24th. She will participate in a meeting at KVA.


Mattys Pouyez from Sorbonne University, Paris will visit on October 9th.


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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