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
PhD Student Diogo C attended 1st FTPP Annual International AL Plasma Physics Conference (AIAPC)

GoLP team members attend 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Latest Publications
- Particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar magnetospheres: Transition between electrosphere and force-free regimes, Astronomy & Astrophysics 690 (2024) p. A229
- Direct laser acceleration in varying plasma density profiles, New Journal of Physics 26 (2024) p. 093002
- Laboratory Study of Magnetic Reconnection in Lunar-relevant Mini-magnetospheres, The Astrophysical Journal 969 (2024) p. 124
- Laboratory realization of relativistic pair-plasma beams, Nature Communications 15 (2024) p. 5209