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Dr. Mehdi Abedi-Varaki is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (FTMC), Vilnius, Lithuania. He received his Ph.D. in Atomic and Molecular Physics (Plasma Physics) from the University of Guilan, Iran. His research focuses on plasma physics, laser-plasma interactions, plasma accelerators, terahertz radiation, nonlinear optics, computational plasma physics, and artificial intelligence applications in plasma science. He has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, several book chapters, and serves as a reviewer and editorial board member for numerous international journals. He has received multiple competitive research grants and actively participates in international scientific collaborations and conferences.

• Plasma Physics
• Plasma Engineering
• Laser-Plasma Interaction
• Laser Wakefield Acceleration
• Computational Plasma Physics
• Plasma Spectroscopy
• Nonlinear Optics

• Senior Researcher at FTMC, Lithuania
• Reviewer for Physical Review Applied, Scientific Reports, Physics of Plasmas, Optics Letters, Optics Express, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, and many other SCI journals
• Guest Editor of Applied Sciences and Frontiers in Physics
• Editorial Board Member of several international journals
• Young Editorial Board Member of High Power Laser Science and Engineering
• Committee Member of numerous international conferences
• Co-supervisor of Ph.D. students
• Recipient of multiple international research grants and awards

• Efficient catalytic degradation of crystal violet dye over FeVO4 by spark plasma discharge: An eco-friendly approach for wastewater treatment. Scientific Reports (2026).
• Tunable extinction and near-perfect absorption in graphene plasmonic terahertz metasurfaces. Journal of Applied Physics (2026).
• Terahertz absorption characteristics of a VO2/SiO2/Au plasmonic metamaterial with rotational symmetry. International Journal of Modern Physics B (2026).
• Simulation of geometrical scaling and terahertz-response characteristics in plasmonic terahertz photoconductive antennas. Photonics (2026).
• Machine learning–driven optimisation of dual-stage laser wakefield acceleration using Bessel–Gaussian beams. European Physical Journal Plus (Under Review, 2026).
• AI-assisted bibliometric analysis of LWFA research: trends and future directions. Applied Sciences (2026).
• Beam shape effect on enhanced laser wakefield acceleration of electrons driven by 10-fs mJ-class pulses. Scientific Reports (2026).
• PIC simulation of wakefield generation and electron acceleration in underdense plasma by a TW few-cycle laser pulse. Optical and Quantum Electronics (2025).
• Parametric examination of plasma wakefield generation from laser-plasma accelerators driven by flattened-Gaussian laser pulse. Waves in Random and Complex Media (2025).
• Combined impacts of self-generated and non-uniform magnetic fields on the acceleration of plasma electrons. Brazilian Journal of Physics (2025).
• Influence of nitrogen concentration on laser wakefield acceleration of electrons driven by Bessel-Gauss laser beam. Applied Physics A (2025).
• PIC simulation of enhanced electron acceleration in a double nozzle gas target using spatial–temporal coupling with axiparabola optics. Applied Sciences (2024).
• Analysis of plasma wakefield generation by a Laguerre-Gaussian laser beam in laser-plasma accelerators with external injection. Physica Scripta (2024).
• THz radiation generation from plasma wakefield driven by skew-cosh-Gaussian laser beam under an undulator magnetic field. Waves in Random and Complex Media (2024).
• Laser-machined two-stage nozzle optimised for laser wakefield acceleration. Journal of Plasma Physics (2024).
• Relativistic laser third-harmonic generation from magnetized plasmas under a tapered magnetostatic wiggler. Physics of Plasmas (2023).
• Laser wakefield acceleration of electrons using Bessel–Gauss doughnut beams for accelerating beam guiding. Journal of Plasma Physics (2023).
• Impact of wiggler magnetic field on wakefield generation and electron acceleration by Gaussian, super-Gaussian and Bessel–Gaussian laser pulses propagating in collisionless plasma. Journal of Plasma Physics (2023).
• Generation of THz radiation by wakefield under a wiggler magnetic field: An analytical study. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A (2023).
• The laser–plasma interaction: A bibliometric study. International Journal of Modern Physics B (2023).