EuPRAXIA News

Work conducted at the Central Laser Facility (part of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK) by a group of international researchers, including EuPRAXIA collaborators, has led to the development of a new diagnostic technique to measure ultrashort electron beams produced by laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA). This may help bring powerful x-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), currently several kilometers long, down to tabletop scales. Schematic of the experimental setup.* Conve

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

On 6 th  - 7 th  October 2025, the EuPRAXIA Doctoral Network held a two-day Camp hosted between the University of Pécs and Szentagothai Research Centre in Pécs, Hungary.  The camp explored the innovations that the EuPRAXIA facility and plasma accelerators in general will enable. Talks looked at how plasma accelerators can lead to innovative applications across medicine, biology, chemistry and material science among other areas. Participants at the EuPRAXIA-DN Camp III. The ta

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

The largest-ever European edition of the International Beam Instrumentation Conference (IBIC 2025) was hosted at the University of Liverpool from the 7 th -10 th  September 2025. This 14 th  edition of the conference brought together more than 300 world-leading experts to discuss developments in and share knowledge on beam instrumentation. Group photograph of the delegates at IBIC 2025 in Liverpool. Over the week, delegates took part in keynote and invited talks, contributed