Anne Bourdon

Anne Bourdon is currently the Director of research at CNRS (DR1) and leads the Low Temperature Plasmas Team within the Plasma Physics Laboratory (LPP) at Ecole Polytechnique. She has held roles such as Deputy-Director of LPP (2020–2022) and has been a CNRS Researcher at LPP since 2014. Her research focuses on plasma physics applications, including atmospheric pressure plasmas for combustion and medical treatments, low-pressure magnetized plasmas for aerospace propulsion, and computational modeling of plasma flows.

Education:

• PhD in Physics, University of Rouen (1995)

Research Interests:

• Atmospheric pressure plasmas (streamer discharges, plasma jets)
• Low-pressure magnetized plasmas for electric propulsion
• Modeling of low-temperature plasmas coupled to reactive flows
• Fluid and Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations

Awards:

• Recipient of the CNRS Bronze Medal (2000)

Editorial & Professional Activities:

• Associate Editor, Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2013–2016)
• Senior Editorial Advisor, Journal of Physics Communications (2017)
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (since 2018)
• OLTP Committee Member (2023–2024), Co-chair of Online Low-Temperature Plasma Seminars (2022)

Labs & Teams: She is part of the Low Temperature Plasmas Team at LPP, a CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique-affiliated laboratory.