Anne Bourdon

Director of research at CNRS (DRCE1)

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

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

Brief Vitae

Since 09/2026: Professor (PCC) at Ecole polytechnique - Chair "Space: science and spatial applications"
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: Director of Research at CNRS - LPP - UMR CNRS 7648, Ecole polytechnique
10/2012 - 08/2014: Director of research at CNRS - Laboratory EM2C - UPR CNRS 288, Ecole Centrale Paris
11/2003 - 09/2012: 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

Awards

2026 : Ulrich Kogelschatz Lecture Award - Hakone Conference
2000: CNRS Bronze medal

Editorial activities

Editor with P. Bruggeman of the 2022 Plasma Roadmap: low temperature plasma science and technology in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
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)