Laser-Plasma Chair

The CLPU Laser-Plasma (LaPlas) Chair at the University of Salamanca (USAL) has been promoted by the CLPU Advisory Committee and created in 2014 by CLPU with the following goals:

• Promote and develop LAser-Plasma Physics at the University of Salamanca and in Spain
• Support the experimental activities run at VEGA, the CLPU petawatt laser system, by driving both national and international users community

The Director o the Chair is Dr. Luca Volpe

The main research lines of LaPlas are:

• High Power laser-driven particle acceleration
• Laser-Driven plasmas at extreme conditions
• Inertial Confinement approach to Fusion
• Laser-Plasma and particle beam diagnostic techniques
• Numerical simulations for Laser-Plasma processes

The LaPlas Chair organizes and supports several national and international activities among which:

• Master courses on Laser-Plasma Physics and related diagnostics (2ECT)
• PhD programs on Laser-PLasma Physics and applications
• A Laser-Plasma international Schools (LaPlaSS) annually in September (click here to take a look to LaPlaSS 2020)

The LaPlas is also involved in two master courses at the USAL:

• Máster Universitario en Física y Tecnología de los Láseres (2ECT)
• Retos Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología de  Frontera (1 ECT)

LaPlas is involved in several European projects H2020 and ERASMUS+ and several experiments at the CLPU and at the laser laboratories and aborad that are periodically organized under the umbrella of the Chair.