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
Training event on "Modelling of ultra-intense laser propagation in plasmas and laser-plasma accelerators: fundamentals" organized by GoLP

Modeling Earth's magnetosphere in the laboratory in Physics of Plasma

Latest Publications
- Laser-driven, ion-scale magnetospheres in laboratory plasmas. I. Experimental platform and first results, Physics of Plasmas 29 (2022) p. 042901
- Slowdown of interpenetration of two counterpropagating plasma slabs due to collective effects, Physical Review E 105 (2022) p. 035204
- Laser-driven, ion-scale magnetospheres in laboratory plasmas. II. Particle-in-cell simulations, Physics of Plasmas 29 (2022) p. 032902
- Laser-plasma acceleration beyond wave breaking, Physics of Plasmas 28 (2021) p. 013109