• Laserlab-Europe Talk: Laser-surface processing for green Hydrogen and energy storage applications, 29 Jan 2025

    Title: Laser-surface processing for green Hydrogen and energy storage applications Speaker: Panagiotis A. Loukakos (IESL-FORTH) Date: Wednesday, 29 January 2025, 16:00 CET Venue: Online In this talk I will present our recent work on the application of laser-surface processing in the fabrication of nanostructured metallic electrodes. These electrodes have been found to exhibit enhanced electrochemical […]

  • Laserlab-Europe Talk: Revealing bacterial subcellular structure with three-dimensional multicolour super-resolution microscopy, 5 March 2025

    Speaker: Chiara Caldini (LENS) Cellular compartmentalization is the separation of the cellular interior into distinct compartments, each with specific conditions and materials, that enable the simultaneous execution of different metabolic processes. This organization is essential for regulating cellular functions, as it enhances efficiency by minimizing the loss of intermediate products. While the compartmentalization of eukaryotic […]

  • Lasers4EU Webinar: Technology transfer and patenting: from fundamental research to a business model. The example of LaserLeap Technologies, 26 March 2025

    Speaker: Carlos Serpa (University of Coimbra & LaserLeap) This webinar will explore the journey from fundamental research to a viable business model within a technology-based university spin-off. Using the case of LaserLeap Technologies  - a medical and aesthetic device company founded in 2011 by a professor, a researcher and a doctoral student - we will examine […]

  • Laserlab-Europe Talk: Boosting multiphoton 3D printing for biomedical engineering: small features, high impact, 2 April 2025

    Speaker: Irina Alexandra Paun (INFLPR) The biomedical engineering sector is one of the most rapidly growing industrial areas, bringing together engineering, medicine and biology, to develop novel technologies for medical treatment. Modern biomedical engineering advanced the concept of “reverse engineering”, which means building micro- and nano-structures with functional biomimicry by extracting design parameters from biological […]

  • Laserlab-Europe Talk: Optical modification of graphene for applications, 23 April 2025

    Speaker: Mika Pettersson (Laserlab-NSC) Graphene and other 2D materials have many excellent properties but seldom they can be used as such in advanced applications. One option is to chemically modify and functionalize 2D materials. However, many applications require spatially selective functionalization and patterning. Laser-based methods offer many advantages in this regard. A common optical material […]

  • Laserlab-Europe Talk: Glass drilling with femtosecond laser in GHz-burst mode, 18 June 2025

    Speaker: Inka Manek-Hönninger (University of Bordeaux, CNRS-CELIA) Femtosecond laser materials processing in the GHz-burst mode has attracted much attention in the last few years , especially for top-down percussion drilling in dielectrics thanks to the outstanding machining quality of the holes . In this contribution, I will first give an introduction to femtosecond laser GHz-burst […]

  • Laserlab-Europe Talk: Laser ablation propulsion: high power pulsed laser irradiation and advanced experimental investigation

    Speaker: Séverine Boyer (MINES-Paris/PSL) Orbital debris removal in low Earth orbit (LEO) opens the way to a new paradigm in space propulsion. The use of high-power pulsed laser interaction (HP PLI) offers a perspective in this field. This concept is based on laser ablation. The high-power HiLASE beamline facility (Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic), with Perla-B […]

  • Lasers4EU Webinar: Open science and the societal impact of scientific research, 24 Sept 2025

    The presentation explores the principles and practices of Open Science, highlighting how increased transparency, accessibility and collaboration in research can enhance its societal relevance and impact. Will be also examined the key pillars of Open Science – including open access, open data, and citizen science – and how these contribute to democratizing knowledge, fostering innovation, […]

  • Laserlab-Europe Talk: Electromagnetic pulse generation by sub-nanosecond kilojoule laser pulses, 8 Oct 2025

    Speaker: Jakub Cikhardt (Czech Technical University) The interaction of a focused high-power laser with matter results in the generation of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). In the case of terawatt and petawatt lasers, the intensity of the EMP is strong enough to interfere with diagnostic signals and may cause malfunction or distortion of electronic devices. Moreover, […]

  • HZDR Data Management Days 2025 – Shaping Research Data Practices with Lasers4EU

    This year’s HZDR Data Management Days will take place from Tuesday, 11 November (1 p.m.) to Wednesday, 12 November (3 p.m.), featuring a mix of lectures and interactive workshops.The programme on 12 November is only for internal participants. In the context of advancing digitalisation and an ever-increasing need for reproducibility,  this year’s event will focus […]