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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...

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...

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...

Congratulations to Korentin Géraud on successfully defending his PhD thesis entitled “Cold plasma endotherapy applied to oncology: from the physics of guided streamers to feasibility and therapeutic efficacy in preclinical models” on March 24, 2026...

Congratulations to Ayah TAIHI on successfully defending her PhD thesis entitled “Plasma–interface coupling in semiconducting barrier discharges” on March 27, 2026. Abstract While Dielectric Barrier Discharges (DBDs) are widely used for atmospheric...

Congratulations to Sascha Rienäcker for successfully defending his thesis titled “Impact of Magnetic Geometry on the Edge Radial Electric Field in Tokamaks” on March 9th, 2026. Abstract Mitigating plasma turbulence is a major objective of magnetic...

Relativistic feedback discharge processes are believed to be responsible for intense gamma-ray flashes produced in atmospheric thunderstorms. These phenomena occur over length scales of several hundred meters and could not previously be reproduced in the...

Measurements of absolute atomic oxygen density and reduced electric field are crucial for the understanding and development of plasma-based technologies. Probing them, however, usually requires active methods that are either perturbative or highly costly...

During type III solar radio bursts, electromagnetic waves are radiated at the plasma frequency ωp and its harmonics by electrostatic wave turbulence generated by electron beams ejected from the Sun in solar wind and coronal plasmas. These emissions...

PLASMAScience Graduate School is excited to announce the launch of the third edition of the PLASMAScience Summer School, dedicated to laser-plasma interactions. It will be held on Porquerolles Island, France, from June 21 to 27, 2026. The Summer School is...

The cross-section of tokamak plasmas is usually non-circular; the plasma column tends to be vertically elongated and "D"-shaped. The shaping parameter that characterizes the "D"-ness is called triangularity. In recent years, the exotic negative...

Despite its modest size, Enceladus exerts a colossal electromagnetic influence on Saturn’s environment. An international study led by researchers from the Laboratory of Plasma Physics (LPP) reveals that this moon acts as a giant planetary-scale Alfvén...