Focus Points

All EPJ Plus Focus Point issues are listed below in chronological order (most recent on top). Further details such as status, guest editors, description, open calls if available can be found by clicking on the titles.

Focus Point on Challenges on Physics-Informed Neural Networks

Focus Point on the Physics of Cancer II: Novel Models and Benchmarking Data

Focus Point on Physics in the Balkans: Perspectives and Challenges, 2025

Focus Point on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics: The Impact of Climate Change on Complex Ecological Networks

Focus Point on Perovskite optoelectronics: advances for photodetectors and light emitting sources

Focus Point on Advances in Radiation Protection - European Radiation Protection Week 2024

Focus Point on Citizen Science for Physics: From Education and Outreach to Crowdsourcing Fundamental Research

Focus Point on Transport and Physical Properties of Organic Semiconducting Polymers for Bioelectronics Applications

Focus Point on Advances in Radiation Protection - Exposures of workers and population

Focus Point on Nuclear microprobe technology and applications

Focus Point on Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs): Properties, Engineering, and Applications

Focus Point on Advances in Radiation Protection - III ENA Workshop

Focus Point on Materials development for the circular economy at scientific infrastructures

Focus Point on Best doctoral theses from the Spanish Royal Physics Society (RSEF) in 2023-24

Focus Point on Computational strategies for smart microscopy in biology and mechanobiology

Focus Point on CBRNE Events: Prevention, Mitigation, Consequences and Recovery

Focus Point on Advances and Innovation in Heritage Science

Focus Point on Recent Advances in X-ray and Neutron Imaging for Cultural Heritage and Biomedicine

Focus Point on Tensions in Cosmology from Early to Late Universe: Part II: New Directions in the Light of Observations from the Most Modern Astronomical Facilities

Focus Point on Laser Driven Neutron Sources and their Applications

Focus Point on Machine Learning for Materials Physics: From Pitfalls to Best Practices

Focus Point on Higher Derivatives in Quantum Gravity: Theory, Tests, Phenomenology

Focus Point on Progress Reports in Experimental Physics and Techniques

Focus Point on Scientific Research in Cultural Heritage

Focus Point on Quantum imaging and related science and technologies

Focus Point on nonlinear optical systems and applications

Focus Point on Advances in Radiation Therapy

Focus Point on Advances in Analytical Techniques for Archaeological Potteries

Focus Point on Mathematics and Physics at the Quantum-Classical Interface

Focus Point on Radiation Protection Issues in the Environment and Workplaces

Focus Point on Physics in the Balkans: Perspectives and Challenges

Focus Point on the Green Transition of Gases Employed for Radiation Detection in Nuclear and High Energy Physics Experiments

Focus Point on Middle Term Plan of Italian Laboratories in Nuclear Physics

Focus Point on Scientific Research in Cultural Heritage 2022

Focus Point on Uncertainty Quantification of Modelling and Simulation in Physics and Related Areas: From Theoretical to Computational Techniques

Focus Point on Silicon-based Detectors for Nuclear, High-Energy and Astroparticle Physics

Focus Point on the Magic of Glass

Focus Point on Advances in Cryogenic Detectors for Dark Matter, Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics

Focus Point on Progress in Medical Physics in Times of CoViD-19 and Related Inflammatory Diseases

Focus Point on Advances in Photonics for Heritage Science: Developments, Applications and Case Studies

Focus Point on Nonlinear Physics Advances

Focus Point on Rarefied Flows at Micro- and Nano-Scale

Focus Point on Accelerator-based Photon Science Strategy, Prospects and Roadmap in Europe: a Forward View to 2030.

Focus Point on Rewriting Nuclear Physics Textbooks: Recent Advances in Nuclear Physics Applications

Focus Point on New Technologies for Detection, Protection, Decontamination and Developments of the Decision Support Systems in Case of CBRNe Events

Focus Point on Environmental and Multiplicity Effects on Planet Formation

Focus Point on Tensions in Cosmology from Early to Late Universe: The Value of the Hubble Constant and the Question of Dark Energy

Focus Point on Mechanobiology across Scales

Focus Point on Memristive Chaotic Circuits and Systems

Focus Point on Advances in the Physics and Thermohydraulics of Nuclear Reactors

Focus Point on Modern Developments in Applications for Plasma Physics

Focus Point on SIPMs as Photosensors for Nuclear, High Energy and Astroparticle Physics

Focus Point on Advances in the Physics and Thermohydraulics of Nuclear Reactors

Focus Point on A Future Higgs & Electroweak Factory (FCC): Challenges towards Discovery - Part III: Theoretical Challenges

Focus Point on Light Pressure across All Scales

Focus Point on Cancer & HIV/AIDS Dynamics: From Optimality to Modelling

Focus Point on Small and Medium Particle Accelerator Facilities in Europe

Focus Point on A Future Higgs & Electroweak Factory (FCC): Challenges towards Discovery - Introduction and Overview

Focus Point on Innovative Quantum Materials

Focus Point on the Interplay between Climate and Energy Policies

Focus Point on A Future Higgs & Electroweak Factory (FCC): Challenges towards Discovery - Part IV: Software Developments and Computational Challenges

Focus Point on A Future Higgs & Electroweak Factory (FCC): Challenges towards Discovery - Part II: Physics Opportunities and Challenges

Focus Point on Classical and Quantum Information Geometry

Focus Point on A Future Higgs & Electroweak Factory (FCC): Challenges towards Discovery - Part I: The Next Big Leap: Accelerator Technologies for the Precision Frontier.

Focus Point on High-Energy Accelerators: Advances, Challenges, and Applications

Focus Point on Breakthrough Optics- and Complex Systems-based Technologies of Modulation of Drainage and Clearing Functions of the Brain

Focus Point on Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials and Interfaces

Focus Point on Solitons, Integrability, Nonlinear Waves: Theory and Applications

Focus Point on Fundamental and Open Issues in Climate Dynamics

Focus Point on Rewriting Nuclear Physics Textbooks: Basic Nuclear Interactions and Their Link to Nuclear Processes in the Cosmos and on Earth

Focus Point on New Challenges in the Scientific Applications to Cultural Heritage

Focus Point on Scientific Research in Conservation Science

Focus Point on Tests of General Relativity and Alternative Gravity Theories

Focus Point on Past and Present: Recent Advances in the Investigation of Ancient Materials by Means of Scientific Instrumental Techniques

Focus Point on Microplastic Pollution: Assessment, Effects and Mitigation Strategies

Focus Point on Fractional Differential Equations in Physics: Recent Advantages and Future Direction

Focus Point on Complex Photonics

Focus Point on Highlights of Planetary Science in Italy

Focus Point on Modern Astronomy: Selected Issues in Nuclear and High Energy Astrophysics

Focus Point on Systems and Security: Advanced Methods with Chaos and Complexity

Focus Point on Modelling Complex Real-World Problems with Fractal and New Trends of Fractional Differentiation

Focus Point on the Transition to Sustainable Energy Systems

Focus Point on New Technologies Related to Intentional and Accidental Release of CBRNe Agents

Focus Point on Plants for food, energy and sustainability

Focus Point on Nuclear data for energy

Focus Point on Rewriting Nuclear Physics textbooks: 30 years with radioactive ion beam physics

Focus Point on Evaluation of the 30P proton capture reaction rate in classical novae

Focus Point on Status of third-generation synchrotron crystallography beamlines: An overview

Focus Point on Compact accelerator-driven neutron sources

Focus Point on the Physics of Cancer

Focus Point on Taking stock: measurements, searches and discoveries at the LHC

Focus Point on 3He replacement in neutron detection: Current status and perspectives

Focus Point on Quantum Spintronics and Related Phenomena

Focus Point on An intrinsically safe facility for forefront research and training on nuclear technologies

Focus Point on Pattern Recognition Tools for Proteomics

Focus Point on Quantum information and complexity

Focus Point on Recent advances and applications of Resistive Plate Chambers

Focus Point on Interdisciplinary Science with Cosmic Rays

Focus Point on Earth’s Climate as a Problem in Physics

Focus Point on Advanced Physical Methods in Brain Research

Focus Point on Deep Underground Science Laboratories and Projects

Focus Point on Hadrontherapy in Europe

Focus Point on Major Advances in High Energy Physics Software

Focus Point on Computational Methods for Astro- and Plasma Physics: Some Hot Topics

Focus Point on Open Issues of Interface Computation at Complementary Time and Length Scales

Focus Point on Biomedical Applications

Focus Point on Physics for Cultural Heritage

Focus Point on Progress in Neutron Reflectometry Instrumentation