Victor Malka, Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and Science Deputy Director at ELI-NP in Romania, has obtained his PhD thesis at Ecole Polytechnique in 1990. He worked on different topics such as atomic physics, inertial fusion, and laser plasma interaction. His research work is now mainly devoted on relativistic laser plasma interaction, laser plasma accelerators, and their related societal applications in which he made several breakthrough contributions.