Pascal Chabert
Activités et responsabilités scientifiques
Pascal Chabert obtained his PhD in Orsay University (now Paris Saclay University) in 1999. After his PhD, he worked at UC Berkeley as a Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher in the group of Prof. Michael A. Lieberman. In 2000 he entered the CNRS to work at the Ecole Polytechnique as a permanent researcher in LPP. He was the director of LPP from 1/2015 to 12/2019. In 2019, he became professor at Ecole Polytechnique and the chair of the Space Science and Technology Curriculum, funded by gifts from Arianegroup, Thales Alenia Space and since 2024 Safran. His main research field is plasma physics; in the early phase of his career, the main area of application of his research has been plasma etching for microelectronics - he wrote a popular textbook on the Physics of Radiofrequency Plasmas. He later pursued research activities in Plasma Propulsion for space application. He patented a new concept of plasma propulsion in 2007 in which he proposed to use iodine as a propellant. In recent years, he was deeply involved in modelling Hall Thrusters, the main plasma engines for space propulsion. During his career he received several distinctions and had important contributions to the community:
2007, IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Plasma Physics.
2010, Organized, 63rd Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC), joined with the 7th International Conference on Reactive Plasmas (ICRP), Paris, France (750 Participants)
2011, Laureate, France-Berkeley Fund Grant
2014, William Crookes Prize, European Physical Society
2019, Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC) Foundation Talk
2022, CNRS Silver Medal