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.
16 December 2024
Ultrashort laser pulses consisting of up to two optical cycles can also be characterized with their so-called carrier-envelope phase (CEP). To determine this value, our physicists deployed artificial intelligence. We interviewed group leader Zsolt Divéki about their paper published in Optics Express.
6 December 2024
The Cockroft Institute has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI ERIC), to collaborate on research in high power laser and far-infrared (“Terahertz”) techniques for electron beam acceleration.
2 December 2024
The ELI User Meeting brings together researchers, scientists, and engineers from across the world to share knowledge, discuss technological and scientific advancements, and explore the cutting-edge research enabled by ELI.
20 November 2024
On November 18-19 2024, the ELI ERIC International Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (ISTAC) convened for the 9th time at the ELI ALPS Facility in Szeged, Hungary. This was the first meeting led by newly elected Chair Roger Falcone of the University of California, Berkeley, and Vice-chair Thomas Tschentscher of the European XFEL.
28 October 2024
For the third time, ELI ALPS is launching the “Art in Science” competition aimed at encouraging the production of artworks by combining science and art, i.e. by adding new colours and graphics to images of research results achieved at our institute.