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Welcome to the website of the extreme plasma physics team, the theory and simulation team of the Group for Lasers and Plasmas of the Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear at Instituto Superior Técnico.

Our team is funded by the European Research Council through the Advanced Grant "Accelerates" (ERC-AdG2010 no. 267841) and the Advanced Grant “InPairs” (ERC-AdG2015).





Latest News

Filipe C awarded a Fulbright Portugal scolarship for UCLA

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PhD student Filipe C was awarded one of the Fulbright Portugal 2025/2026 PhD scholarships for research activities in U.S. institutions. This support will allow him to spend 6 months at the Plasma Simulation Group of the University of California, Los Angeles, where he will be collaborating with Prof. Warren Mori to study whether the incoherent properties of light could mitigate the laser-plasma instabilities that… Read more

Turbulent Relaxation in Collisionless Plasmas Featured on the Cover of PNAS

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In an article recently featured on the cover of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team of researchers from the University of Oxford (Robert J. Ewart, Michael L. Nastac, Alexander A. Schekochihin) and from GoLP/IPFN (Pablo B, Thales S, Luís OS) uncovered how collisionless plasmas relax to equilibrium under the action of turbulence. While collisional plasmas achieve Maxwellian distributions… Read more


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