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The Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas congratulates Alejandro Álvarez Laguna, CNRS Research Scientist at LPP, on being awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal. This distinction recognises his work on non-equilibrium plasmas, conducted at the interface between physics, applied mathematics and numerical simulation. His research contributes to a better understanding of these complex media and opens up new perspectives for more efficient, more sustainable and...

Jean-Baptiste Billeau was awarded the Young Researcher’s Best Poster Prize at the Frontiers in Low Temperature Plasma Diagnostics (FLTPD XVI) conference, held in Kerkrade, the Netherlands. The prize recognized the poster entitled “Characterization of atmospheric pressure ns-pulsed plasma jets properties through advanced optical diagnostics”, the result of a collaboration between LPP (École polytechnique) and PPSL (Polytechnique Montréal), with Denis V...

The Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas warmly congratulates Lina Hadid, CNRS research scientist at the laboratory, who has been awarded the 2026 Young Researcher Award by the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (SF2A). With this distinction, the SF2A Council recognizes Lina Hadid for the quality and originality of her work in space plasma physics, particularly on interactions between the solar wind and planetary environments, as well as for...