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Prof. Carsten P. Welsch Honoured at the MeetEngland 2025 Impact Network Awards

20 Feb , 2026 - News

Prof. Carsten P. Welsch, PACRI WP2 Leader and EuPRAXIA-DN Coordinator, has been presented with the 2026 MeetEngland Impact Network Award. This prestigious recognition celebrates his exceptional success in attracting major international scientific events to England. Beyond organizing different specialized workshops, schools, and symposia, scientific events, Professor Welsch played a pivotal role in securing three flagship […]

PALLAS Achieves Electron Beam in fully beamline integrated Compact Dual Gas Cell Configuration

9 Feb , 2026 - News

French laboratory milestone advances laser-plasma acceleration technology for EuPRAXIA and PACRI infrastructures 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 […]

IEEE Photonics Society Elects Dr Paul Crump to its Board of Governors

13 Nov , 2025 - News

Leader in high-power diode laser technology elected into governance position to shape future photonics and plasma accelerator infrastructures. 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, […]

ELI Beamlines Works to Strengthen International Collaboration in Laser Science

15 Oct , 2025 - News

ELI Beamlines participated in the “Photonics, Space, Lasers: Vision 2040” conference at the Czech Pavilion during EXPO 2025 in Osaka, Japan, from September 9–11, 2025. This event saw the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Scientific and Technological Collaboration with the Institute of Laser Engineering (ILE) at Osaka University, achieving a major milestone […]

ELI Appoints Dr Leonida Antonio Gizzi as Director of Science

2 Oct , 2025 - News

The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) in the Czech Republic, the recently selected site for the EuPRAXIA laser-driven plasma accelerator pillar, has announced the appointment of Dr Leonida (Leo) Antonio Gizzi from the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) in Pisa, as its new Director of Science. In this key position, Dr Gizzi will steer ELI’s integrated scientific user programme, […]

Start of PACRI project featured in Synchrotron Radiation News

11 Jun , 2025 - News

Synchrotron Radiation News has just published the first article from the PACRI collaboration, outlining the objectives of the project and its implications for the light sources user community.