Four new MSc graduates @golp-ist.bsky.social #eppteam: Francisco A (radiation reaction in non ideal fields, top left), João J (RR & GR, bottom right), Manuel R (theory/sim fireball instabilities, bottom left), Margarida P (ML with PIC data, top right). Congratulations to all! 🎉🎊

Our most recent paper is out on PNAS (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... ) in the Oxford led collaboration where @golp-ist.bsky.social @istecnico.bsky.social plays a role on theory and simulations (with @pablojbilbao.com and Filipe C)

New in PNAS: we recreated blazar pair cascades in the lab. Using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, we produced dense electron–positron beams and sent them through plasma to test whether beam instabilities can disrupt them, they can’t. @ox.ac.uk @cern.bsky.social @golp-ist.bsky.social

And thesis successfully defended with distinctions! Congratulations 🎉 @istecnico.bsky.social

Officially Dr. Pablo! Immensely grateful to everyone at @golp-ist.bsky.social and to all the colleagues I’ve had the chance to work with over these past years. This journey wouldn’t have been the same without you. I’m sad to leave GoLP, but excited for what’s next, more coming soon, stay tuned!!

Last week, a part of GoLP went to Vilnius (Lithuania 🇱🇹) for the 51st EPS Conference on Plasma Physics (🔗 epsplasma2025.com ), chaired by GoLP member Marija Vranic. 🔗 to know more: golp.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/.../golp-mem...

1/n Back in Lisbon after 1 year at UCLA! Want to start by thanking Fulbright, FCT, IIE, and UCLA for making this research visit possible and for all the support during the program.

In Science Advances, @pablojbilbao.com , @thales-silva.bsky.social , and @luisoliveiraesilva.bsky.social show that radiatively cooled relativistic plasmas can spontaneously emit coherent, polarized radiation via the maser instability. 🔗 epp.ist.utl.pt?p=1530682 @istecnico.bsky.social

A recent cover article in PNAS by researchers from the University of @ox.ac.uk (Robert J E, Michael L N, Alexander A S) and GoLP/IPFN @istecnico.bsky.social (Pablo B, Thales S, Luís OS) revealed how collisionless plasmas reach equilibrium through turbulence. 🔗 tinyurl.com/y4xwx6cm

Plasmas on the cover of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from a @oxfordphysics.bsky.social - @istecnico.bsky.social paper 🎉 with @thales-silva.bsky.social @pablojbilbao.com @golp-ist.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our research is featured in Público, Portugal's national newspaper! The article discusses how our latest study provides insights into the origin of coherent radio bursts from neutron stars, such as pulsars and magnetars. www.publico.pt/2025/04/21/c...

💥 New paper out in Science Advances! We show that radiatively cooled relativistic plasmas can spontaneously emit coherent, polarized radiation via a maser instability. Work with @thales-silva.bsky.social and @luisoliveiraesilva.bsky.social . 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Can plasma physics help constrain models for dark electromagnetism? Yes, it can. Letter in PhysRev D (Editor’s Suggestion) and a very nice feature in @physicsmagazine.bsky.social physics.aps.org/articles/v18... @golp-ist.bsky.social with Nitin S and Kevin S

GoLP secures over 80 million CPU hours in national computing time. To know more about the projects👇 🔗 golp.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/wp/golp-secu... @istecnico.bsky.social Image: phase space of the maser instability. 🍭

I spend my days in the microscope quantifying things like the images below. These photos show neurons 🔵 and microglia 🟣 (brain immune cells). Each #SARSCoV2 infected cell entering the brain generates this response in our Covid monkey model. #FluorescenceSaturday #NeuroCovid

EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Happy Holidays from everyone @golp-ist.bsky.social !

Here is an illustration of the setup in our latest pre-print [https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06783]. For more details, @pablojbilbao.com did an excellent post about it (check the thread: bsky.app/profile/pabl...). @luisoliveiraesilva.bsky.social @golp-ist.bsky.social @istecnico.bsky.social

Well this is grim

1/ Latest pre-print by @thales-silva.bsky.social & @luisoliveiraesilva.bsky.social is out! 📝 Check out the full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.06783

New @golp-ist.bsky.social preprint is out, by @thales-silva.bsky.social @pablojbilbao.com - tailoring distribution functions with lasers and exploring, in the lab, astro relevant plasma instabilities 👇 arxiv.org/abs/2412.06783

Starting the GoLP Raising the Bar day 2024 with breakfast in the beautiful building of Academia das ciências followed by a presentation and an open discussion. @istecnico.bsky.social

Marija Vranic, professor at Técnico, and PhD student Óscar Amaro are part of the team that published (and earned cover honors) a recent study in Nature Photonics that show, for the 1st time, observations of non-linear Compton scattering.☄️ 🔗Full article: tinyurl.com/4h4yuzf4 #TécnicoLisboa #ULisboa

We have also submitted a preprint on applying Quantum variational algorithms to Strong Field QED. We demonstrate that we can use VarQITE to evolve the Fokker-Planck equation to simulate Quantum Radiation Reaction. arxiv.org/abs/2411.175...

Today's an exciting day! We have submitted two papers to ArXiV, one of which is my positron acceleration work using Direct Laser Acceleration. Here, we use methods to improve positron creation and retention and a semi-analytical model to predict laser depletion. arxiv.org/abs/2411.174...

A new podcast @istecnico.bsky.social will be out next monday - a special thank you to our guests, the team of DFM @pablojbilbao.com @thales-silva.bsky.social Diogo Carvalho and Filipe Cruz that also produced the episodes, and the amazing students of Physics Engineering @istecnico.bsky.social

GoLP researchers secure 30 million core hours on Marenostrum 5 thanks to the project "Realistic Simulations of Relativistic Plasmas in Astrophysical and Laboratory Environments", led by @thales-silva.bsky.social and @pablojbilbao.com Congrats🥳🎉 @istecnico.bsky.social 🔗 tinyurl.com/nn5kurt4

Now at @istecnico.bsky.social Bernardo M is ready to defend his PhD thesis. Good Luck 🍀

Now in Abreu Faro (@istecnico.bsky.social) we are having a mini-workshop which will precede the defence of our PhD student Bernardo M tomorrow