The next seminar in the series will take place on Friday 9th January at 11am UK time .  Dr Luca Labate of The National Institute of Optics (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, CNR-INO), Pisa, will present his seminar, An Application of Compact Laser-Driven Accelerators: Toward Novel Approaches to Radiotherapy. You can see an introduction to Dr Labate and his work here . About the talk Electron accelerators based on the Laser Wakefield Acceleration process in a plasma are now at a s

An important step forward for EuPRAXIA has been marked by the publication of the “Technical Status Report on Plasma Components and Systems in the Context of EuPRAXIA”.  The article features on the front page of the November issue of  Physics of Plasmas . A result of work done as part of Work Package 10, Plasma Components and Systems , of the Preparatory Phase Project, the article was prepared by experts across the EuPRAXIA collaboration. Their work reviews the current state

On Friday 7 th  November, Dr Marie Labat of Synchrotron Soleil presented her seminar, COXINEL: towards compact free electron lasers? If you missed out, you can catch up on the seminar here . Massimo Ferrario The next seminar in the series will take place on Friday 5th December at 11am UK time . Dr Massimo Ferrario of INFN will present his seminar, Diving into the Plasma Waves: Beam-Driven Wakefield Acceleration at EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB About the talk Beam-driven plasma wakefield

The Research and Technology Infrastructures (RTI) Summit 2025 took place from 22 to 23 October in Copenhagen, bringing together Europe’s leading voices in science, innovation, and policy. Hosted under the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the event aimed to shape a shared European strategy for RTIs and explore how these infrastructures can drive scientific discovery, industrial competitiveness, and societal progress.  As Europe’s first project to design

Dr Paul Crump, Head of the High-Power Diode Lasers Lab at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) in Berlin, has been elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Photonics Society. He will begin his three-year term in 2026, contributing to the Society's strategic direction and promoting international collaboration within the global photonics community that advance photonics research and applications worldwide. Dr Paul Crump At FBH, Dr Crump leads a research team focused on devel

The 2025 General Meeting of the EuPRAXIA Preparatory Phase (EuPRAXIA-PP) project, which took place from Wednesday 29-Friday 31 October, has drawn to a close. The three-day meeting was held at the project’s recently announced laser-driven accelerator site, ELI, specifically the ELI Beamlines  facility, in Dolní Břežany, just outside Prague. This annual gathering of the consortium provided a valuable opportunity to review project progress. This year, particular attention was pu