The Innovations for a sustainable tomorrow symposium will be held in Liverpool on Friday 10th July 2026, bringing together the LIV.INNO Centre for Doctoral Training and the EuPRAXIA community with UK and international industry partners to explore how innovation and sustainability are reshaping fundamental research, medicine, electronics, the environment, and energy. Scientists from across Europe will present highlights and advances in advanced technologies such as plasma acc

The next seminar in the series will take place on Friday 17th April at 11am UK time. Dr Paul Crump, Head of Photonics Lab, High-Power Diode Lasers at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik, will present his seminar, diode lasers for the next generation of ultra-high energy laser applications, from direct material processing to inertial fusion energy. Dr Paul Crump About the talk High power GaAs-based diode lasers underly the worlds’ largest

With the publication of the Technical Design Report (TDR), EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB takes a decisive step toward the realization of the world’s first user facility based on plasma acceleration. The project, led by the INFN National Laboratories of Frascati, defines in detail the construction of a compact 1 GeV accelerator that integrates X-band RF technology and beam-driven Plasma WakeField Acceleration ( PWFA ), with the goal of realizing a Free Electron Laser operating in the wa

Prof Carsten P Welsch, EuPRAXIA-DN coordinator and EuPRAXIA-PP WP2 leader, was presented with a 2026 MeetEngland Impact Network Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements in bringing major scientific events to England. In addition to dozens of scientific workshops, schools and symposia, Professor Welsch had a key role in bringing the flagship Linear Accelerator Conference ( LINAC 2022 ), the International Beam Instrumentation Conference ( IBIC 2025 ), and the Intern

The PALLAS project (Prototyping Accelerator based on Laser pLASma technologies) at IJCLab (Irène Joliot-Curie Laboratory of Physics) has produced its first electron beam in a fully beamline-integrated double gas cell. This world-first compact configuration marks a significant milestone in advancing next-gen laser-plasma wakefield acceleration technologies. Developed in collaboration with LLR and LP2I Bordeaux of CNRS Nuclear and Particles Physics and Université Paris-Saclay,

A new publication from the University of Liverpool’s QUASAR Group reports the design and characterization of an advanced extraction system for a Supersonic Gas Curtain–based Ionization Profile Monitor (SGC-IPM), contributes to the development of beam diagnostics for FLASH proton therapy. Schematic of SGC-IPM (Extraction system highlighted in green box). (Image credit: Parambil, F. T. M., et al, Instruments, 10(1), 4, CC BY) The work has been published in the open-access jour