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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

Recent paper in Science Advances featured by FCT

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The Portuguese Science Foundation featured on their website the recent paper in Science Advances by Pablo B et al, highlighting the importance of the computational resources of Deucallion, with statements from Pablo B, Thales S and Luis OS. Read more

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


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