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Zhan Shu defended his PhD "Absolute calibration and quantification of atomic oxygen in nanosecond plasmas using two-photon absorption laser-induced fluorescence" On September 19, 2025, Zhan Shu defended his PhD "Absolute calibration and quantification of...

Methyl radicals (CH₃), which are highly reactive and therefore difficult to quantify, nevertheless play a central role in discharges involving hydrocarbons. In collaboration with Nelson de Oliveira from the SOLEIL synchrotron, the gas-plasma conversion...

Alejandro Alvarez Laguna, CNRS researcher at LPP is awarded an ERC Starting grant. The Starting Grants are awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) for a maximum budget of 1.5 million Euros and a duration of 5 years to early-career researchers that...

After her Ph.D at LPP in the Space Plasmas team with Fouad Sahraoui and Sébastien Galtier from 2020 to 2023, Pauline Simon has carried out a two-year postdoc at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Queen Mary University of London (UK). Her work...

Interactions between energetic electron beams and solar wind plasmas are at the origin of various processes of turbulent waves’ transformations and electromagnetic radiation during solar radio bursts of types II and III. The properties of electrostatic...

The second edition of the PLASMAScience Summer School, organized by EUR PLASMAScience, took place from June 22 to 28 on the island of Porquerolles (France), centered on the theme “Plasmas for Society”, with a particular focus on low-temperature plasmas...

A comprehensive topical review has just been recently published in special issue of Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics , focusing on emerging in situ and time-resolved diagnostic methods to study the interaction of non-thermal atmospheric pressure...

LPP organized the NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission 10th anniversary, 11th MMS Community workshop, at the Pierre and Marie Curie Campus of Sorbonne Université in Paris between 12th and 14th of May 2025. MMS mission is constituted of 4 identical...

Sophie MASSON’s research field is solar physics, with a particular focus on eruptive and impulsive phenomena. To address these topics, she uses two distinct yet complementary approaches: modeling and observational diagnostics. Her work is part of the...

The Hasegawa-Wakatani system is a simplified model for instability-driven 2D turbulence in the edge of tokamak magnetised plasmas [1]. In this system, a dissipative drift-wave linear instability is generated by a background density gradient, which acts as...

📍 Île de Porquerolles, France – June 22–28, 2025 Following the success of its inaugural Summer School dedicated to astrophysical plasmas in June 2024, EUR PLASMAScience is pleased to announce the second edition of its Summer School , this time focusing on...

On March, 2025, Victor Lafaurie defended his PhD "Pulsed plasma approach for mild or strong ignition of a detonation wave using gradient of atomic species". Abstract : This thesis presents a study conducted on the ignition of a detonation wave with non...