Welcome to the website of the extreme plasma physics team, a team of the Group for Lasers and Plasmas of the Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear at Instituto Superior Técnico.
Our team has been funded by the European Research Council through the Advanced Grant "Accelerates" (ERC-AdG2010 no. 267841) and the Advanced Grant “InPairs” (ERC-AdG2015).

Latest News
Computational Advances Pave the Way for Quantum Vacuum Exploration

Recent paper in Science Advances featured by the Portuguese Science Foundation

Latest Publications
- Computational modelling of the semi-classical quantum vacuum in 3D, Communications Physics 8 (2025) p. 224
- Relaxation to universal non-Maxwellian equilibria in a collisionless plasma, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (2025) p. (17) e24178131
- Experimental Observation of the Motion of Ions in a Resonantly Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator, Physical Review Letters 134 (2025) p. 155001
- Can plasma physics establish a significant bound on long-range dark matter interactions?, Physical Review D 111 (2025) p. L071701