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Adnan Parwez has joined our research group for the next year to work on LIBS-related projects!! Adnan Parwez completed his Bachelor’s degree in physics and a Master’s degree in Electronics in India. He then moved to Europe to pursue an Erasmus Mundus Master’s program in Microwave and Photonics Engineering, during which he studied in France, Italy, and Spain. As part of his Master’s thesis, he completed an industrial internship at ASENSE (formerly ASE Optics Europe) in Barcelona, where he worked on “tolerance analysis and optical performance evaluation of a high-precision optical system”. After completing his studies, he joined Universidad Carlos…

Nos alegra enormemente compartir que la Dra. Cristina Méndez López, investigadora de nuestro Grupo de Espectroscopía, Láseres y Plasmas (GELP) de la Universidad de Oviedo, ha sido galardonada con el II Premio GEFP a la Mejor Tesis Doctoral en Física de Plasmas, otorgado por el Grupo Especializado de Física de Plasmas (GEFP) de la Real Sociedad Española de Física (RSEF). La decisión fue adoptada por unanimidad el 25 de febrero de 2026 por el jurado designado por la Junta de Gobierno del GEFP. Su tesis, titulada: “Estudios fundamentales y evaluación del potencial analítico en espectroscopía de plasmas inducidos por láser…

Dra. Méndez has presented an Invited lecture at the 13th Edition of the Euro-Mediterranean Symposium on Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, EMSLIBS 2025 (13th Euro-Mediterranean Symposium on Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy – Sciencesconf.org) a conference dedicated to LIBS (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy). The conference was held between the 26th and 30th of January 2026, in Senlis, France.  

Dr. Orejas has presented the lecture “Fundamental Insights on the Solution-Cathode Glow Discharge” at the Glow Discharge Spectroscopy session of the 2026 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, a conference dedicated to Plasma-based Atomic Optical and Mass Spectrometries. The conference held a session in honor of Prof. Ramon Barnes, founder and organizer of the conference since 1980, creating an amazing community and pushing forward great Science. Thanks Ramon!  

GELP has been awarded with a Project from the prestigious ”la Caixa” Foundation Health Call. Within the Health Research Call, it is one of 34 biomedical research projects selected from more than 700 proposals submitted in this edition. This project funded with almost one million euros is based on a consortium of four groups:  Hospital del Mar Research Institute (Research group of Dr. Alex Calon); Universidad de Granda (Research group of Dr Daniele Lo Re;  Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG) (Research group of Dr. Holger Heyn); and Universidad de Oviedo (GELP Group).  

Giulia has joined our research group for three weeks to work on LA-ICP-MS!! Giulia Terlecki is a PhD candidate in Biological Oceanography at the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG, Brazil), where she investigates trophic and population structure of fish, with a focus on stock definition. She has previous experience with population structure using genetic approaches and is currently working to understand the ecology, ontogenetic movements and individual specialization of Prionace glauca and Isurus oxyrinchus through isotopic and microchemical analyses of vertebrae. This stage of the study is being developed in collaboration with the Portuguese Institute for the Sea and…

Mafalda will join our research group for the next month of November 2025 to work on LIBS and LA-ICP-MS!! Mafalda Costa is an Invited Auxiliary Researcher at HERCULES Laboratory (University of Évora) and a «La Caixa» Foundation Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellow. She holds a joint-degree PhD in Archaeology and Earth and Space Sciences in the Ghent University (Belgium) and the University of Évora (Portugal), respectively. Mafalda’s knowledge in a wide range of analytical techniques – XRF, SEM-EDS, micro-Raman spectroscopy, XRD and LA-ICP-MS – has enabled the determination of composition, provenance and manufacturing technology of historical artifacts and painting materials. Her…

GELP members have attended the I Encuentro Nacional de Materiales en Contacto con Hidrógeno, where academic and industry experts shared their research related to hydrogen embrittlement providing valuable insights on the state-of-the-art of this critical topic. GELP is working to demonstrate the potential of optical spectroscopy (LIBS) and mass spectrometry (GD-TOF) as techniques to characterize spatial distribution of hydrogen in materials of interest to provide complementary information to engineering studies. We hope fruitful colaborations will arise from this conference!! Congratulations to Borja Peral and Inés Fernández from SimuMecaMat for a fantastic event!!

Hana Koprivová from CEITEC BUT, Laboratory of Laser Spectroscopy (https://libs.ceitec.cz/) in Brno (Czech Republic) will stay in our Research Group for 3 months (from March 17th until the middle of June 2025) to work on a LA-ICP-MS related project! Welcome Hana!!