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EPP team members Marija Vranic and Jorge Vieira were awarded with a total of 68 million core-hours at the TIER-0 supercomputer Marenostrum, at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. The computing time was awarded by the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) during the 23rd call, and were selected amongst 61 submitted proposals. The project “Direct laser acceleration of leptons in plasma” was awarded with 36 million core-hours (PI: MV). This project will be dedicated to investigate advanced positron sources for plasma-based accelerators based on nonlinear QED processes. The project “Acceleration control and superradiance in laser-plasma accelerators” was awarded with 32 million core-hours (PI: JV). This project will be dedicated to investigate coherent x-ray emission and acceleration in laser-plasma accelerators. 

On May 22, Elisabetta successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Ion acceleration driven by intense laser pulses” at Politecnico di Torino (dual degree with Doutoramento in Physics at IST). Many congratulations to Elisabetta!

Thomas Grismayer has been awarded a prestigious FCT Investigator contract in this year’s extremely competitive contest for these new positions.
Thomas obtained a Starting Grant for his proposal title “Pair dominated plasmas in ultra intense fields: from the laboratory to astrophysics.” The central scientific questions and the research focus of this project will be to determine the conditions for the creation of pair plasmas in the laboratory under the action of ultra intense fields (magnetic field and/or laser pulses) and to investigate the self-consistent collective dynamics of such plasmas with their radiation, both in laboratory and astrophysical conditions such as pulsars and magnetars.
The central scientific questions and the research focus of this project will be to determine the conditions for the creation of pair plasmas in the laboratory under the action of ultra intense fields and the determination of the role of the self-consistent collective dynamics of such plasmas, both…