25 April 2025
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology on the occasion that the development of the field kicked off 100 years ago, with discoveries published in 1925. Our programmes on 16 May – the International Day of Light – will also showcase the achievements of quantum science.
22 April 2025
Enikő Szűcs, a senior student at Tömörkény István Secondary Grammar School in Szeged, is a frequent guest at our research institute. She has routinely attended our open days and events organized for students in the past years and has recently written an article about ELI ALPS in the journal titled A Természet Világa.
17 April 2025
The FLexRICAN (FLEXIBILITY IN RIs FOR GLOBAL CARBON NEUTRALITY) project offers sustainable energy solutions for large research sites. The third consortium meeting of the initiative was held in France from 9 to 11 April.
14 April 2025
On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we invited year 8 to 12 secondary school students to a Girly Afternoon. The event was attended by thirty-five young ladies from our region and beyond; girls living as far as Debrecen were also interested in the work being done here.
11 April 2025
The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) had a strong presence at this year’s SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics conference, held in Prague from 7–10 April 2025.
3 April 2025
The EuPRAXIA Consortium has recently selected ELI Beamlines, the Czech facility of ELI ERIC, as the site for the planned laser-driven plasma-based electron accelerator. The aim is to pioneer compact, high-performance electron accelerators using advanced laser- and beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration technology.
18 March 2025
The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) is pleased to announce the launch of the 6th ELI User Call, with submissions open until 25th April. Researchers from around the world are encouraged to submit proposals, which will be evaluated by an international peer-review panel based on scientific excellence.
5 March 2025
For his photos taken at ELI ALPS, Zsolt Dobóczky has received a special award in the recent media competition organized by the Szeged Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The photographer, who is also a full-time teacher of electrotechnics, has been honoured with several prizes for his images of the research institute.
13 March 2025
ELI ALPS Laser Research Institute supports national and international science education by offering exciting research topics for MSc and PhD students.
11 March 2025
The 2025 ELI User Meeting will be held on 18-20 June 2025 in Szeged, Hungary, hosted at the ELI ALPS Facility. ELI’s core user event provides an opportunity for exchange and collaboration while showcasing recent scientific results.
28 February 2025
The Extreme Light Infrastructure is set to open the 6th ELI User Call on 18 March 2025 with a submission deadline of 25 April.
18 February 2025
Physicists regularly come to the aid of physicians with devices built for medical purposes. This time, a laser-based instrument developed at the University of Szeged was proposed for measuring blood loss and tested at the recent blood donation event organized at ELI ALPS Laser Research Institute.
13 February 2025
Researchers at ELI ALPS evaporated gold onto rhodium and prepared a boron nitride monolayer on the alloy. The noble metal atoms were then found to reorganize themselves under the monolayer. The impressive result was published in 2D Materials and Applications, one of the Nature publications.
11 February 2025
The National Laser Transmutation Laboratory, operated in collaboration by the University of Szeged and ELI ALPS Laser Research Institute, reported results of international significance at its project closing conference.
6 February 2025
The editors of the prestigious Journal of Optics, founded a quarter of a century ago, chose to celebrate the landmark date in a novel way, by launching the Rising Stars in Optics 2024 initiative. From the pool of nominees, 21 young researchers, including our colleague Balázs Major, were selected as Rising Stars in Optics.
4 February 2025
The 5th ELI ERIC User Call concluded, marking another milestone in the organisation’s mission to advance high-power laser science. The 136 proposals submitted involving over 450 scientists from 35 countries is a new record for the ELI User Programme.
28 January 2025
The award ceremony of the third edition of our Art in Science competition was held on 24 January 2025. The aim of the call for entries was to turn images of our research results into works of art. Altogether, we received 72 entries.
22 January 2025
The Extreme Light Infrastructure Summer School (ELISS) is celebrating educating and training the next generation of scientists and researchers with the 10th Anniversary edition. This milestone event, to be held on 25-29 August 2025 in Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic, invites students from around the globe.
14 January 2025
The ELI ERIC is pleased to announce the Call for Expression of Interest for the Mission-Based Access Programme focused on Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE).
6 January 2025
With fellow physicist Győző Farkas, he predicted the generation of attosecond laser pulses in 1992. He contributed to building the dinosaur of laser physics dubbed T-Rex in the US and was consulted on the technical concepts of all three ELI institutes. Physicist Csaba Tóth spent a month at ELI ALPS.