Anne Bourdon

Director of research at CNRS

Low Temperature Plasmas Team

Email : anne.bourdon at lpp.polytechnique.fr
Tel : +33 (0)1 69 33 59 49
Room : 05-1096A
Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
Ecole Polytechnique, route de Saclay, F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex

Scientific Interests

Atmospheric pressure plasmas (streamer discharges, nanosecond pulsed discharges for plasma assisted combustion and plasma jets),
Low-pressure magnetized plasmas for electric propulsion applications
Modeling of low temperature plasmas coupled to reactive flows
Fluid and PIC simulations of low temperature plasmas

Brief Vitae

Since 11/2023: Director of COMHET - joint laboratory on electric propulsion between CNRS, Ecole polytechnique, Sorbonne Université and Safran Spacecraft Propulsion
01/2023-12/2025: Director of LPP - UMR CNRS 7648, Ecole polytechnique
01/2020 - 12/2022: Deputy-director of LPP - UMR CNRS 7648, Ecole polytechnique
Since 09/2014: CNRS Researcher - LPP - UMR CNRS 7648, Ecole polytechnique
11/2003 - 08/2014: CNRS Researcher - Laboratory EM2C - UPR CNRS 288, Ecole Centrale Paris
11/2001 - 10/2003: CNRS Researcher at the research center of PSA Peugeot-Citroën - Vélizy
1996 - 10/2001: CNRS Researcher - Laboratory CORIA - UMR 6614 CNRS, university and INSA of Rouen
1995: PhD in Physics at the university of Rouen

Award

2000: CNRS Bronze medal

Editorial activities

Since 2018: Member of the editorial board of Journal of Physics D : Applied Physics
2017: Senior editorial advisor of Journal of Physics Communications
2013-2016: Associate editor of Plasma Sources Science and Technology

Online Low-Temperature Plasma (OLTP) seminars

2023-2024: OLTP committee member
2022: Co-chair with I. Kaganovich (PPPL, USA)