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

Plasma streaming instabilities constrain dark matter models

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In a recent Letter in Physical Review D, selected for the Physics newsmagazine of the American Physical Society and as Editor’s Suggestion, a team of researchers of GoLP (Nitin S, now at CINECA, Kevin S, now in Bochum U, and Luis OS), established a new strong bound on dark electromagnetism, the equivalent of electromagnetism to dark mattter. Dark matter and… Read more

Aggregation Exam by Jorge Vieira

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Jorge Vieira, an IPFN researcher and Associate Professor in the Physics Department at Instituto Superior Técnico, has reached an important milestone in his academic journey by successfully completing his Aggregation in Physics. The two-day examination took place on January 13th and 14th, 2025, at IST. The exam featured two main components: a Curricular Unit Report on the Introduction to Plasma Physics course and a seminar titled… Read more


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