Plasma physics

• Basic collisionless plasma physics
• Magnetic confinement fusion
• Plasma-wall interactions, edge-localized modes (see PEPPSI project)

Ultrafast dynamics in  nano-objects

• Plasmonic excitations in metallic nanoparticles and thin films
• Magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic nanoparticles
• Spin and magnetization dynamics

Quantum dynamics

• Quantum mechanics in the phase space (Wigner functions)
• Quantum hydrodynamics
• Relativistic effects in condensed matter

Antimatter and gravitation

• I am part of the GBAR collaboration (Gravitational Behavior of Anti-hydrogen at Rest), whose aim is to measure the acceleration of anti-hydrogen atoms in the gravitational field of the Earth.
• Self-gravitating systems; cosmology.

A detailed description of my research activities (in French) can be found here.

Present position

Directeur de recherches at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg.

Earlier appointments

• 1999–2004 : CNRS scientist at the Laboratoire de Physique des Milieux Ionisés et Applications (LPMIA), Nancy, France.
• 1998–1999: Lecturer at the University of Nancy, France.
• 1997–1998:  Postdoc, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland.
• 1996: Guest scientist, Institut für Plasmaphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.
• 1994–1996: EU postdoctoral fellowship, UK Atomic Energy Authority, Culham.
• 1994: Guest scientist, Canadian Centre for Magnetic Fusion, Varennes, Canada.

Education

• 1998: Habilitation, Université d’Orléans, France.
• 1994: PhD, Plasma Physics, Université d’Orléans, France.
• 1991: Master degree, Nuclear Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

I teach the class « Electron dynamics: charges and spins » for the second year of the Master program Condensed Matter and Nanophysics of the University of Strasbourg. My lecture notes can be found here.

I also contribute to the International Graduate School QMat – Quantum Science and Nanomaterials of the University of Strasbourg.

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