The Board
The board is composed of 9 members elected by all the permanent members of the Federation, as well as 4 appointed members to ensure, as far as possible, a balance in terms of laboratories and gender. The vote of this Board ended on February 24, 2020 and is elected for a period of 5 years.
Role
The Board is representative of the Federation’s laboratories. His goal? Meet regularly to collectively discuss the strategic directions of the project around these pillars: research, teaching, calls for projects (redaction and allocation of funding), communication and outreach projects, and any other subject requiring collegial approval.
Members
Research director (CNRS)
Vice-Director of PLAS@PAR
Research topic: coming soon
Short biography : coming soon
Research director (CNRS)
Research topic: Laser shock waves, equation of state measurements of shock wave compressed matter, warm dense matter studies (optical and X diagnostics), study of phase diagrams at high pressures, planetology in laboratory.
In a few words: After a post-doc in the CEA astrophysics department, she was recruited as a researcher at the CNRS in 1999 at the LULI laboratory. She received the bronze medal in 2002. She is currently responsible of the PHYHDEL (physics of high energy density matter generated by laser) team at LULI. She is member of the Panel Review Program of the European XFEL in Hamburg.
Astronomer (Observatoire de Paris)
Vice-Director of PLAS@PAR
Research topic: instabilities, solar wind, kinetic simulations, space weather.
In a few words: Carine Briand obtained her PhD in plasma physics in 1996 in Orsay university. She spent eight years as support astronomer for the THEMIS ground-based solar telescope located in Tenerife (Canary Islands). Back to France in 2004, she joined the plasma group of the LESIA. Her scientific activity concerns the kinetic instabilities observed in the solar wind (data analysis and kinetic simulations) and space weather. Deputy director of the LESIA from 2009 to 2014 and since 2019, she is also Vice-Director of PLAS@PAR since January 2020.
Lecturer (SU)
Research topic: astrophysics, high energy, laboratory plasmas, stars.
In a few words: Andrea Ciardi obtained his PhD from Imperial College London in 2003. He then moved to the Observatory of Paris as a Marie Curie Fellow in 2005, where he stayed ever since. He is currently a lecturer at Sorbonne Université. His main research interests are the astrophysical applications of high energy density laboratory plasmas and star formation.
Lecturer (SU)
Initiative Sorbonne Université Physique des Infinis
Research topic: cold plasma processes, plasmas for Life Sciences (medicine, agriculture).
In a few words: Thierry Dufour defended his PhD in 2009 at Université d’Orléans. He undertook post-doctoral research at the University of Brussels (ULB). In 2015, he became Associate Professor at Sorbonne Université and received his HDR in 2016. He’s member of the Federation PLAS@PAR, of GDR Happybio (CNRS, #2025) and of SIRIC Curamus. His research activities relate to plasma processes and cover a wide range of applications: plasmas for life sciences (agronomy, medicine), plasma-material interactions (polymer functionalization, organometallics and colloids in plasma phases), plasma chemistry (plasma CO2, syngas production, micro-plasmas).
Researcher (ONERA)
Research topic: colds plasmas, thermal plasmas, aerospace.
In a few words: Paul-Quentin Elias graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris in 2003, and obtained PhD from the same institution in 2007. His main research interests are the applications of cold or thermal plasmas to aerospace systems.
Research director (CNRS)
Research topic: coming soon
Short biography : coming soon
Lecturer (UVSQ)
Research topic: coupling of plasma-neutral interactions in planetary environments.
In a few words: Ronan Modolo obtained his PhD in plasma physics & planetology in 2004, before pursuing a one-year ATER experience at UVSQ and three years of post-doctorate at the Swedish Space Physics Institute (Uppsala) and the University of Iowa (USA). He was appointed Senior Lecturer at UVSQ and LATMOS in 2008 and obtained his HDR in 2014. He teaches mainly at the bachelor's level (L1 and L3). His research activities relate to the study of neutral plasma interactions in the planetary environments of these objects using two methods: 1/ modeling and numerical simulation, 2/ spatial data analysis, in support of space missions.
CNRS Researcher
Research topic: Solar Physics
In a few words: Coordinator of the solar physics group of LESIA. Étienne Pariat obtained his PhD in Astrophysics in 2006 and then spent 3 years in the Washington DC (USA) area, working at Georges Masson University, Naval Research Laboratory & NASA GSFC. In 2009 he entered CNRS to work at LESIA, Observatoire de Paris/PSL. His research focuses on the study of solar activity and relies on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) theory, on large-scale three-dimensional MHD numerical simulations and on the exploitation of the latest spectroscopic and spectropolarimetric observations.
CNRS Researcher
Research topic: Modelling stellar and planetary interiors.
Short biography: During his thesis, Ludovic Petitdemange studied the role of different MagnetoHydrodynamic instabilities like MRI on the generation of planetary magnetic fields. Then, using more sophisticated numerical models, Ludovic Petitdemange diversified his activities to better understand the generation of stellar fields (dynamo effect).
Lecturer (SU)
Research topic: Atomic Physics, Particle Interaction (photon, multicharged ion) - Matter (from atom to solid).
In a few words: Christophe Prigent obtained a PhD fellowship from the CEA (French Agency of Atomic Research) in 2001 to work on the x-ray emission resulting from the interaction of intense laser with cluster. He received his PhD in 2004 from UPMC (Sorbonne University) and in 2005 after a few months at the Max Planck Institute für Kernphysik in Heidelberg, he became Lecturer at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Sorbonne University). He performs his research activities at the INSP and his main research interests are to study the dynamic of strong coulomb perturbation of the matter (from gaz to solid through cluster) either by intense laser field or highly charged ions.
Lecturer (SU)
Research topic: cold plasma processes, surface treatments and thin film deposition.
In a few words: Jérôme Pulpytel obtained his PhD in process engineering at UPMC in 2005 and his HDR in 2013. He worked at LGPPTS (Chimie Paris) from 2002 to 2013, then at LISE (Sorbonne University) from 2014. His research activities mainly concern the development of thin films and coatings by cold plasma processes (PECVD, PVD). He teaches at the Faculty of Chemistry from Bachelor to the Master levels.
CNRS researcher
Research topic : space plasma physics, spacecraft instrumentation.
In a few words: Alessandro Retino received his PhD in space plasma physics from Uppsala University, Sweden in 2007 after carrying on his research on magnetic reconnection at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala and at the Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley. After three years postdoc at the Space Research Institute in Graz, Austria, he joined CNRS in 2010 as a permanent researcher. His research is focussed on the analysis of spacecraft data to study fundamental plasma processes (magnetic reconnection, particle acceleration turbulence, shocks), on in situ spacecraft instrumentation (both fields and particles) and on the preparation of future spacecraft missions.
Certified professor (SU)
Director of PLAS@PAR
Research topic: Space plasma physics, study of the Earth's magnetosphere solar wind interaction.
In a few words: Professor at Sorbonne Université (Physics Faculty) since 2001, President of section 34 of the CNU, former director of the LPP. Teacher in L1, L2 and M2 of planetology.
University professor (SU)
Research topic: Laser-plasma interaction theory and simulation, non-linear wave-wave coupling and particle wave coupling, plasma optics, relativistic plasmas, relativistic particles and quantum description of laser-particle interaction, magnetized plasma jets and laboratory astrophysics.
In a few words: Caterina Riconda obtained her PhD in 1996 at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA. After a one year fellowship at the Joint European Torus, UK, she obtained a TMR Marie Curie grant in Ecole Polytechnique, France. After spending few years in CEA, Saclay, she joined Bordeaux University in 2003 in the CELIA laboratory, and Sorbonne Université, in 2007, in the LULI laboratory.
University professor (SU)
Research topic: Collisionless shock waves observed in spatial physics and the associated acceleration mechanisms.
In a few words: Professor at Sorbonne University since 2010, co-responsible for the Master “Physique des Plasmas et de la Fusion”. Teacher in L1 (mathematics), in M1 and M2 (plasma physics). Specialist in numerical simulation, in particular, PIC codes in order to self-coherently include the different characteristic scales of plasmas (electrons and ions).
Research director (CNRS)
Research topic: Atoms and molecules in intense laser fields. Attoscience. Ultra-fast dynamics.
In a few words: Research director at the CNRS, Richard Taieb is currently director of the LCPMR. After his PhD at the LCPMR in 1992, he got a postdoctoral position at JILA (Boulder, University of Colorado) and then returned to LCPMR (France). Since then, Richard has theoretically studied non-linear phenomena in the presence of intense laser fields. Using numerical simulations, he is particularly interested in femto / attosecond correlated dynamics in the presence of laser fields.
Invited
Representant of the EUR PLASMA_ST of École Polytechnique