Marija Vranic, researcher at IPFN’s Group for Lasers and Plasmas (GoLP) and invited professor at the Department of Physics received the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Plasma Physics 2022, awarded by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), an international organisation established in 1922, in Brussels, organised and run by the physics community itself, whose mission is to assist in the worldwide development of physics and promote physics as an essential tool to tackle global problems.

“This is an international recognition awarded each year to a variety of disciplinary areas in physics. It is an honour to be the first person working in Portugal to receive it” says Marija Vranic. The IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Plasma Physics, which recognises the contributions of early-career physicists with less than eight years of experience after their PhD, had never been awarded to a person affiliated with a Portuguese research institution.

The official award ceremony will take place at the IUPAP international conference, to be held in September.