Young Researchers' Day celebrates every year best presentations by PhD and postdoctoral researchers working at ELI-NP.
  • YRD 2024
  • YRD 2024
  • YRD 2024
  • YRD 2024

2024 Edition Winners [ Event webpage]

Researchers:
Ana-Maria Talposi (LSD) "Ultrashort Laser Pulses with Space-Time Coupling at ELI-NP" (FIRST PLACE)
Stefania Ionescu (Target Lab.) "Nanotubes and nanowires targets fabrication for high power laser experiments" (SECOND PLACE)
Gabriel Bleotu (LSD) "Investigation of pulse duration reduction and intensity increase of Petawatt-class laser system" (THIRD PLACE)

Engineers:
Sara Rebeca Ban (GDED) "Digital Pulse processing in gamma spectroscopy" (FIRST PLACE)
Dmitrii Nistor (LSD) "Back reflection monitoring developments for 10 PW experiments" (SECOND PLACE)
Ana Maria Lupu (LSD) "Plasma mirror" (THIRD PLACE)
  • YRD 2023
  • YRD 2023
  • YRD 2023

2023 Edition Winners [ Event webpage]

Teodora Petruse (GDED) "Direct measurement of the 19F(p,α)16O reaction" (FIRST PLACE)
Diana Serafin (LGED) "Discovering Magnetic Resonance Biomarkers for Irradiated Cells" (SECOND PLACE)
Gabriel Bleotu (LSD) "100TW, 10Hz, 12 fs stable post compressed pulses at ELI-NP" (THIRD PLACE)

  • YRD 2021
  • YRD 2021
  • YRD 2021
  • YRD 2021
  • YRD 2021
  • YRD 2021

2021 Edition Winners [ Event webpage]

Researcher and Engineer:
Vanessa Rodrigues (LGED) "Off-axis parabolic mirror assembly for 100TW commissioning experiment: An engineering perspective" (Gold)
Lucian Tudor (LDED) "Thomson Parabola spectrometer used at ELI-NP in the 1 PW laser commissiong experiment" (Silver)
Adrian Rotaru (GDED) "Ion manipulation using the novel Harmonic Ion Transport method, developed at ELI-NP" (Silver)

PhD Student:
Alexandru State (GDED) "Characterization of gas jets using the Supersonic Test Unit at ELI-NP" (Gold)
Gabriel Bleotu (LSD) "Novel inspection technique for online determination of Laser Induced Damage Threshold" (Silver)
Andrei Naziru (LSD) "Femtosecond scale jitter measurement at HPLS 100TW outputs" (Silver)
Ștefania Ionescu (TL) "Fabrication of nanowire targets for high power laser experiments" (Silver)


MS and BS Student:
Andrei Covali (GDED) "Progress on the positron beam axis alignment system" (Gold)
Cristian Alexe (LSD) "Materials nonlinear refractive index analysis for ultrashort laser pulses" (Silver)
George Nitescu (GDED) "MACE - Monitoring, Alarming and Control for ELIADE" (Silver)

  • YRD 2020
  • YRD 2020
  • YRD 2020
  • YRD 2020

2020 Edition Winners [ Event webpage]

Researchers:
Adrian Rotaru (GDED) "INCREASE: An in-cell reaction system for multi-nucleon transfer and spontaneous fission experiments" (1st Place)
Lucian Tudor (LDED) "Laser-driven accelerated proton characterization based on nuclear isomeric states population and de-excitation" (2nd Place)

PhD:
Nicoleta Ștefania Safca (LDED) "Phase Contrast Imaging for medical applications with conventional sources towards laser-based medical imaging" (1st Place)
Gabriel Petrișor Bleotu (LSD) "Nonlinearities and damage threshold investigations for post-compression experiments" (2nd Place)

  • YRD 2018
  • YRD 2018
  • YRD 2018

2018 Edition Winners

Postdoctoral:
Veselin Aleksandrov (RA1) "Comparison of spectral broadening techniques for probe pulses at ELI-NP" (Gold);
Cesim Dumlu (RA5) "On the Schwinger Mechanism" (Silver).

PhD:
Gabriel Bleotu (RA1) "Towards on-shot pulse duration measurement at HPLS diagnostic bench" (Gold)
Gabriel Turturică (RA2) "Investigation of Compton Scattering for Gamma Beam Intensity Measurements and Perspectives at ELI-NP" (Silver).

  • YRD 2017
  • YRD 2017
  • YRD 2017
  • YRD 2017
  • YRD 2017

2017 Edition Winners

Postdoctoral:
Luigi Capponi (RA4) "In-beam test for two ELIADE detectors: a lanthanum-130 study" (Gold);
Mateusz Krzysiek (RA4) "Preparations for Gamma above Neutron Threshold experiments at ELI-NP" (Silver).

PhD:
Ioana Adriana Gheorghe (RA4) "Photoneutron reaction cross sections measurements at ELI-NP" (Gold);
Lucian Tudor (RA3) "Thomson Parabola (TP) spectrometer design for 60-200 MeV energy range of protons" (Silver).

  • YRD 2016
  • YRD 2016
  • YRD 2016
  • YRD 2016

2016 Edition Winners

Postdoctoral:
Ming Zeng (RA5) "High Flux Laser Wakefield Accelerators by Petawatt Lasers" (Gold);
Ozgur Culfa (RA3) "Hot Electron Production in Laser Solid Interactions with a Controlled Pre-Pulse" (Silver).

PhD:
Ioana Adriana Gheorghe (RA4) "Photoneutron measurements with LCS gamma ray beams" (Gold);
Constantin Dragoș Popescu (RA3) "Submillimeter targets positioning in High Power Laser experiments at ELI-NP using optical measurements and kinematic models" (Silver).