Participants

The ATLANTIC project of the European Commission stands for developing an “Advanced theoretical network for modeling light matter interaction”.

Since March 1st 2019, the ATLANTIC project, which aims at developing an international network and regular exchanges between theoreticians of laser materials interaction all around the world, has started. The international consortium is composed of 11 countries including 6 members of the EU (Bulgaria, Ireland, Czech Republic, France, United Kingdoms and Germany) along with 5 non-EU countries (Japan, Russia, Bielorussia, Argentina and Uzbekistan) for a total of 12 participating institutions. The Bulgarian group is coordinator of the project.

Purpose of the project is to exchange researchers (permanents, post-docs and PhD students) between teams that have been pioneering various methods of numerical modeling for the description of interaction of laser light with materials. The project is funded by the European Commission, under the Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Actions, “Research and Innovation Staff Exchange” program, and comprises prestigious theoretical groups such as the groups of:

• Prof. Eric Suraud (CNRS Toulouse),
• Prof. J. Kohanoff (Queen’s University of Belfast),
• Prof. Tchavdar Todorov (Queen’s University of Belfast),
• Prof. Kazuhiro Yabana (Tsukuba University),
• Prof. Cristian Sanchez (Univ. National of Cuyo, Argentina),
• Dr. M. Berdakin (Univ. National of Cordoba, Argentina)
• Prof. Nadezhda M. Bulgakova (HiLASE Centre, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic),
• Prof. Andrew Horsfield (Imperial College London, UK),
• Prof. Anton Husakou (Max Born Institute, Berlin),
• Prof. Mikhail Fedoruk (Novosibirsk State University),
• Prof. Olga Fedotova (Minsk, Bielorussia),
• and Prof. Tzveta Apostolova (New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria), coordinator of the project.

The project looks forward to ensuring highest standards in term of scientific quality and diplomacy in view of training future generations of scientists with the best scientific standards.

Non-exhaustive list of participants

~ 40 researchers in total

New Bulgarian University (NBU, Sofia, Bulgaria)

1. assoc. prof. Tzveta Apostolova (coordinator, leader of WP6)
2. Dr. Stoian Mishev

CNRS – Laboratoire Physique Théorique (LPT, Toulouse, France)

1. prof. E. Suraud
2. assoc. prof. M. Belkcacem
3. assoc. prof. M. Dinh

HiLASE Centre, Institute of Physics (IP-ASCR, Prague)

1. prof. Nadezhda M. Bulgakova
2. Dr. Thibault Derrien (leader of WP3 and WP5)
3. Dr. Yoann Levy (leader of WP4)
4. Krystof Hlinomaz
5. Sergey Lisunov

Max Born Institute (MBI, Berlin, Germany)

1. (MBI) Anton Husakou (leader of WP1)
2. (MBI) Igor Babushkin

Queen’s University of Belfast (QUB, Belfast, UK)

1. prof. Jorge Kohanoff
2. prof. Lorenzo Stella (leader of WP2)
3. prof. Tchavdar Todorov

Imperial College London (ICL, London, UK)

1. prof. Andrew Horsfield

Novosibirsk State University (NSU, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)

1. prof. M. P. Fedoruk
2. prof. Vladimir P. Zhukov
3. Dr. Sergey Starinskyi

Belarus Academy of Sciences SPMRC (Minsk, Belarus)

1. Dr. Olga Fedotova
2. V. Gusakov
3. G. Rusetsky
4. Oleg Khasanov

Belarus State University (BSU, Minsk)

1. Dr. Oleg Romanov
2. Dr. A. Fedotov
3. A. Kozlovski
4. Ya. Tsitavets
5. Igor Timoshchenko
6. T. Smirnova
7. Ya. Okrut

Tashkent University (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

1. prof. Usman Sapaev
2. Dr. Ilya Kulagin
3. Djavdat Yusupov

University of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

1. prof. D. Scherlis
2. C. Bustamente
3. E. Gadea

National University of Cordoba (Cordoba, Argentina)

1. prof. Cristian Sanchez
2. M. Berdakin
3. D. Marquez

University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba, Japan)

1. prof. Kazuhiro Yabana