ELI-RO Symposium 2026

4 Nov 2026, 10:00 → 6 Nov 2026, 10:00 Europe/Bucharest

IFA/9-905 (IFA)

Wednesday 4 November

10:00 → 10:20 Opening of the Symposium

10:20 → 17:05 Call 2024-2027: Project presentations: scientific progress and perspectives (Public Session)

10:20 Complementary Investigations for Photon beams - High-Energy nuclear Resonant States with charged particle probes (CIPHERS)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Söderström Pär-Anders (IFIN-HH)

10:45 Dose RAte Measurement and identification of biological effects in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator at ELI-NP (DRAM)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Ovidiu TESILEANU (IFIN-HH)

11:10 A New Scheme for Advancing Nuclear Photonics with Multi-photon Absorption Process and High-power lasers (AMAP)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Chieh-Jen YANG (IFIN-HH)

11:35 Coffee / Tea Break

12:00 Understanding FLASH irradiation effect on cancer cells using laser-induced very high energy electrons and in vitro tumor-on-chip assays (FLASH CANCELLS)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Felix SIMA (INFLPR)

12:25 High-Energy Particles and Radiation Sources / HEPaRaS (HEPaRaS)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Ter-Avetisyan SARGIS (IFIN)

12:50 A Scheme for Polyvalent Acceleration with the Peeler Regime Concept (SPARC)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Horny VOJTECH (IFIN-HH)

13:15 Break

15:00 Life prolongation of fs-laser mirrors through decontamination, endurance limit improvement and in situ monitoring (DELISM)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Valentin CRACIUN (INFLPR)

15:25 Direct laser acceleration in the multi-PW regime for electron and photon beams generation using hollow targets (DELPHI)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Mihail CERNAIANU (IFIN-HH)

15:50 Pathways towards laser-neutron-induced radiplogic production and enhancement of FDA approved 177-Lu-based prostate cancer therapies supported by in-vitron essays (LaLuThe)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Klaus SPOHR (IFIN-HH)

16:15 Enhanced proton acceleration in near critical density plasmas by engineering multi-layer targets and applications (HighProtonPLas)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Catalin Mihai TICOS (IFIN-HH)

16:40 Coherent combination of high-power femtosecond laser pulses (LAS-COMB)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Simion SANDEL (INFLPR)

Thursday 5 November

10:00 → 13:15 Call 2024-2027: Project presentations: scientific progress and perspectives (Public Session)

10:00 LWFA-driven Gamma Source (LGS)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Petru GHENUCHE (IFIN-HH)

10:25 Ionizing radiation-powered photodynamic therapy for targeted cancer treatment (RAY-PDT)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Angela STAICU (INFLPR)

10:50 Extreme Light Infrastructure Target Engineering (ELITE)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Mihaela FILIPESCU (INFLPR)

11:15 Coffee / Tea Break

11:35 A novel laser-induced forward transfer approach for the development of mass-limited targets for ion acceleration (FLIGHT)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Alexandra PALLA-PAPAVLU (INFLPR)

12:00 High-Power laser generated ultra-intense transient magnetic field molecular effects on leukemic and lymphomatous cancer cells (HiPoCell)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Aurelian MARCU (INFLPR)

12:25 REal-time Molecular Imaging of reactive oxygen species effects in tumoral, non-tumoral and immune cells using high-power LAser and plasma Sources In the FLASH and conventional regime (REMILASI_FLASH)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Paul VASOS (IFIN-HH)

12:50 Frontier nuclear fission studies at ELI-NP (ELITE)

15' presentation + 10' discussion

Speaker: Dr Dimiter BALABANSKI (IFIN-HH)

Friday 6 November

09:00 → 10:00 End Session: Final Plenary Meeting (Restricted)

ISAB Restricted Session with invited project leaders for detailed questions