PLASMAScience Summer School 2025

PLASMAScience SUMMER SCHOOL

June 22-28, 2025, Porquerolles Island, France

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED Why join the PLASMAScience Summer School

We are excited to announce the 2nd edition of the PLASMAScience Summer School, dedicated to low temperature plasmas.

It will be held on Porquerolles Island, France, from June 22 to 28, 2025. The Summer School is a one-week, free-of-charge training program for highly motivated PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career scientists interested in low-temperature plasmas and their societal applications. In particular, the Summer School aims to bridge fundamental concepts with innovative plasma-based solutions through lectures and hands-on, creative workshops.

Topics

The school will cover atmospheric-pressure plasmas, low-pressure plasmas, plasma propulsion (aerodynamic and space applications), medical plasmas, plasma applications in agriculture, plasmas for energy (solar energy, fusion, solar materials), plasmas for chemical conversion (e.g., CO₂), plasma nanotechnology, light sources, as well as plasma diagnostics and modeling.

Scientific Organizing Committee

Karim Ouaras (France), David Pai (France), Claudia Lazzaroni (France), Fouad Sahraoui (France), Mohan Sankaran (USA), João Santos Sousa (France), Sedina Tsikata (USA).
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Invited lecturers

The School will bring together some of the world's leading scientists in low-temperature plasmas to deliver lectures covering a broad spectrum of topics and methodologies, including theory, numerical simulations, laboratory experiments, observations, and modern data-analysis techniques such as AI/ML.
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Venue

The Summer School will be held on Porquerolles Island, a small paradise off the coast of Hyères and Toulon on the French Riviera. Participants will enjoy the Mediterranean climate and the region's well-preserved landscapes.
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Scientific Organizing Committee

Fouad Sahraoui

LPP, CNRS - Ecole Polytechnique, France

Claudia Lazzaroni

Associate Professor, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France

Karim Ouaras

LPICM, CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique, France

João Santos Sousa

LPGP, CNRS & University Paris Saclay, France

David Pai

LPP, CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique, France

Mohan Sankaran

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Sedina Tsikata

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Deborah O’Connell

Professor, School of Physical Sciences, Dublin City University, Ireland

Local Organizing Committee

Tatiana Juresic

PLASMAScience Graduate School - Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Sylvie Pottier

PLASMAScience Graduate School - Institut Polytechnique de Paris

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Lecturers

Peter Bruggeman (University of Minnesota, USA)
Emilie Despiau-Pujo (Université Grenoble Alpes/LTM-CNRS, France)
Fiorenza Fanelli (CNR/Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds (ICCOM), Italy)
Laurent Garrigues (Université de Toulouse/LAPLACE-CNRS, France)
David Go (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Ali Mesbah (University of California Berkeley, USA)
Tomo Murakami (Seikei University, Japan)

Nicolas Plihon (ENS Lyon, France)
Nevena Puac (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia)
Pere Roca i Cabarrocas (Ecole Polytechnique/LPICM-CNRS, France)
Osamu Sakai (The University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan)
Panagiotis Svarnas (University of Patras, Electrical and
Computer Engineering Department, Greece)
Richard van de Sanden (Eindhoven Institute for Renewable
Energy Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Netherlands)
Màté Vass (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Program

Full program for the week

12:00 - 17:00

Arrival and registration

17:30 - 18:30

Ice breaking

19:00 - 21:00

Dinner

7:00 - 9:00

Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30

The Greening of Chemical Conversion Processes by Means of Plasma-Assisted Processes

Richard VAN DE SANDEN

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:30

Hydrogen and Deuterium negative ion Cs-free sources for fusion applications: Fundamental Principles and Diagnostics

Svarnas PANAGIOTIS

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30

Low Temperature Plasma Processes for High Efficiency Solar Cells

Pere ROCA I CABARROCAS

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Poster session

19:00 - 21:00

Dinner

7:00 - 9:00

Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30

Scientific machine learning for modeling and optimization of plasma processing of complex interface

Ali MESBAH

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:30

Atmospheric pressure plasma surface processing of materials for catalysis and environmental applications

Fiorenza FANELLI

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30

Workshop

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Plasma Electrochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications in Chemical Processin

David GO

17:30 - 18:30

Session

19:00 - 21:00

Dinner

7:00 - 9:00

Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30

Plasma Electrochemistry: Environmental and Decontamination Applications

Peter BRUGGEMAN

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:30

Understanding atmospheric pressure RF plasmas through hybrid simulation methods

Máté VASS

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 19:00

Excursion or free time

19:00 - 21:00

Dinner reception

7:00 - 9:00

Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30

Low-pressure radio-frequency plasmas : Principles and application to plasma etching for microelectronics

Emilie DESPIAU-PUJO

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:30

Hall thrusters for satellite propulsion: concept and physics

Laurent GARRIGUES

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30

Workshop

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Networks in Plasma Science

Tomoyuki MURAKAMI

19:00 - 21:00

Dinner

7:00 - 9:00

Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30

Plasma photonic crystals and metamaterials: designs and functions for wide-band controllers

Osamu SAKAI

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:30

Applications of Plasma Technologies in Agriculture & Food Technologies

Nevena PUAC

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30

Workshop

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Low-pressure magnetized plasmas: versatile platforms for studying basic plasma science

Nicolas PLIHON

19:00 - 21:00

Dinner

7:00 - 9:00

Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30

Workshop

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:30

Workshop

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

REGISTRATION

GETTING THERE Directions to the PLASMAScience Summer School

Venue

How to get there

General information

By car

Take Highway A50 (Marseille – Toulon) and A57 (Toulon – Nice), then follow the freeway junction to Hyères and continue toward Tour Fondue/Les Iles via D97. Parking is available near the pier, including one guarded lot. Cars are not allowed on Porquerolles Island, so you will need to leave your vehicle in Hyères at the small parking lot near La Tour Fondue or use the free parking near the harbour.

By train

Take a train to Hyères or Toulon railway stations. From Toulon, you can connect to Hyères by regional trains (TER). From Hyères, take a taxi or bus N67 to Tour Fondue (schedule si coordinated with the ferry). Train tickets can be purchased at: sncf-connect.com.

By plane

The nearest airport to Porquerolles Island is Toulon-Hyères Airport (toulon-hyeres.aeroport.fr). From the airport, take a taxi or bus to Tour Fondue.

Getting to Porquerolles Island

To reach Porquerolles Island, go to the Tour Fondue small harbor on the Giens Peninsula and take a ferry. The boat ride takes approximately 25 minutes.

For more information about shuttle boats between La Tour Fondue and Porquerolles Island, visit: www.tlv-tvm.com.

Important information for all participants

We organize a group transfer from Hyères train station and Porquerolles Island.

Sunday, June 22:

14:00: bus departs from Hyères railway station to Tour Fondue.
15:00: ferry departs from Tour Fondue to Porquerolles Island.

Saturday, June 28:

14:00: ferry departs from Porquerolles Island to Tour Fondue.
14:30: bus departs from Tour Fondue to Hyères railway station.

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