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For GoLP members, alumni, collaborators, and friends.

02/09/2026

Fresh shots from the GoLP team 📸 👕
#7 - Fabián Macias in Guadalajara, Spain caught the total eclipse. 🌞 🌕️ 🌍️

21/08/2026

📸 Further north along Portugal’s Atlantic coast, we spotted Susana Muiños for #6 at Praia da Tocha, a classic fishing spot where the traditional Arte Xávega method is still practised.👕 🐟️ 🚤 🏖️ 🇵🇹

19/08/2026

Back in Portugal for #5 with João Mendanha Dias in Vila Nova de Milfontes ☀️ 🤿 🎣

Sunlit beaches 🏖️ , Atlantic breezes and the scent of charcoal-grilled fish make it a memorable stop—wish you could smell the fresh Portuguese seafood. 🍽️ 🐟️

📸 we continue spotting members enjoying the season in their tees 👕

17/08/2026

#4 📸 spotting Diogo Carvalho climbing the Peaks of Europe, continuously raising the bar 👕 ⛰️ 🥾 🇪🇸

06/08/2026

#3 with Cláudia Romão 👕

📸 We continue spotting our colleagues during the summer break. This time all the way to Rome 🏛️ 🍕 🍝

''si Romæ fueris, romano vivito more'' - When in Rome, do as the Romans do 🇮🇹

At GoLP we say continuously raising the bar.

03/08/2026

#2 — Diogo Lemos bringing GoLP from the Cathar Pyrenees to Figueres 👕

We’re still catching teammates off-site, enjoying the season. 📸

Cheers to science and sunny days. 🌞

31/07/2026

Opening the doors of research to science journalism

From October 2026, Colombian science journalist🗞️ Stefany Hernández will join the Group of Lasers and Plasmas (GoLP) at IPFN for a five-month residency under the FRONTIERS Science Journalism in Residency Programme.

🧠 💡 Science is much more than published results. It is long simulations, challenging experiments, unexpected setbacks, and the determination to answer some of the most fundamental questions about our Universe.🌠 🌌

Through her project, Taming the Light, Stefany will follow researchers working on plasma physics, high-intensity lasers, and nuclear fusion, offering an inside look 🔎 at the science and the people striving to understand how stars shine 💫 —and how that same process could one day provide a source of clean energy on Earth. 🌍️⚡

The residency is an opportunity to share the reality of research beyond scientific papers and to bring the public closer to the fascinating world of plasmas, lasers, and fusion energy.

Stay tuned for stories from inside the lab. ⭐⚡

Photo by Instituto Superior Técnico

Instituto Superior Técnico
IPFN - Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear

30/07/2026

🚀 Exciting news!

We are delighted to announce our participation in PAIR (Plasma Antimatter Investigation and Realisation), a groundbreaking project funded by the European Union's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges programme under Horizon Europe.🤝

This marks the first time GoLP has secured funding through this prestigious MSCA Staff Exchanges scheme, an important milestone that recognizes our growing contribution to international research and innovation.🎉

The PAIR project will bring together leading researchers from Europe and the United States to investigate one of the most fascinating phenomena in physics: electron-positron plasmas, a rare form of matter linked to some of the most extreme environments in the universe, including pulsars and black holes.💥

Over the next four years, the consortium will combine advanced experiments, artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and international staff exchanges to create a new European capability for pair-plasma science.

We are excited to contribute to this pioneering initiative and to strengthen international collaboration, innovation, and researcher development. 🤝

Learn more about the project: https://tinyurl.com/4y4br96x

With University of Oxford, Max-Planck-Institut, Sorbonne University, UCLA, U. Rochester, ColibriTD and CERFACS.

Instituto Superior Técnico
IPFN - Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear

24/07/2026

☀️ This summer, we're spotting members of our team outside the office, enjoying the season.📸

From beaches 🏖️ to city breaks 🌆 , hiking trails 🥾 , our team is taking a little piece of research wherever they go.

Our team t-shirt has become part of the gear—alongside curiosity, collaboration, and a passion for discovery. 👕

#1 with Rafael Almeida Nova de Milfontes, Portugal

Here's to science and sunny days. 🌞

20/07/2026

🏆️ Pablo Bilbao, who completed his PhD 🎓️ in Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico | GoLP, was presented with the EPS Plasma Physics Division PhD Research Award at the EPS Plasma Physics Conference 2026.

Pablo's dissertation 🎓️ , "Kinetic Instabilities in Extreme Plasma Physics: Laboratory and Astrophysical Dynamics" was selected among the four most outstanding 💡 doctoral works from 38 EPS member countries.

“Receiving the EPS Plasma Physics Division PhD Research Award 2025 is a great honour and a very significant recognition of the work carried out throughout my PhD.” Congratulations. 👏

Instituto Superior Técnico

IPFN - Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear

Read more:
https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/news/campus-community/tecnico-phd-student-awarded-european-award/ https://www.publico.pt/2026/03/26/ciencia/noticia/cientista-tecnico-distinguido-premio-sociedade-europeia-fisica-2169040

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