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

Aggregation Exam by Jorge Vieira

Latest Publications
- 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
- Radiative cooling induced coherent maser emission in relativistic plasmas, Science Advances 11 (2025) p. eadt8912
- Direct laser acceleration of Bethe-Heitler positrons in laser-channel interactions, Physical Review E 111 (2025) p. 035203