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Congratulations to Ambre Ghisalberti, who successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Statistical Study of the Location of Magnetic Reconnection at the Magnetopause.” Abstract Magnetic reconnection constitutes the primary coupling mechanism between the...

Abstract The low-latitude boundary layer (LLBL) is a key region for plasma exchange between the magnetosheath and the magnetosphere. While Earth’s LLBL has been studied extensively, earlier studies at Mercury focused mainly on the dayside. BepiColombo’s...

Gwendal Hénaff, who completed his PhD at the Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), is a 2026 i-PhD laureate with his 3DCAM Sensors project. He also received the Grand Prix Souveraineté, recognizing the strategic potential of a technology developed at...

Congratulations to Francisco Javier Polanco-Rodriguez, who successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Electromagnetic Emissions at the Plasma Frequency by Type III Solar Radio Bursts in Solar Wind and Coronal Plasmas". Summary Type III solar radio...

Debris from the Cluster Samba (C3) and Tango (C4) satellites—along with the STAFF instruments built by LPP (formerly CETP) and Lira (formerly Despa)—now lie in the South Pacific off the coast of the Tonga Islands (Figure 1), following the destruction of...

Congratulations to Jade Touresse , who successfully defended his thesis entitled "Propagation of solar coronal jets in the inner heliosphere: Investigating a solar origin scenario for switchbacks" Abstract The Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission has revealed...

During the 19th International HAKONE Symposium on High Pressure Low-Temperature Plasma Chemistry, held at the University of Montreal (Canada) from August 23 to 27, 2026, Anne Bourdon, CNRS Research Director at the Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP)...

The LPP will host Simon Chouteau, a postdoctoral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at Osaka University, for a seminar devoted to non-invasive diagnostics of low-temperature plasmas using optical spectroscopy. Friday...

The Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas is organizing the 3rd SciQLop workshop, to be held from 15 to 17 September 2026 on the Campus Pierre & Marie Curie (Sorbonne Université), led by Alexis Jeandet and Nicolas Aunai. SciQLop is a tool developed at LPP...

The DYNAFLUC (Dynamics of Turbulence Fluctuations) project, funded through the French-German International Collaborative Research Programme (PRCI), officially started in April 2026 and will run for three years. On the French side, the project is led by...

Bayane Michotte de Welle, who completed her PhD at LPP, has been awarded the 2025 René Pellat Prize, a PhD thesis prize granted by the Plasmas Division of the French Physical Society. Her thesis, entitled “Statistical study of the global constraints...

This summer school is organized once a year over the course of one week. It offers a unique opportunity to attend, free of charge, a 5-day summer school held in Roscoff (Brittany) at the Marine Station. The program is primarily intended for students...