Holger Kersten is a Professor at the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics at University of Kiel, Germany since 2006. Prior Professor Kersten was the head of the plasma processes group at the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP Greifswald) in Greifswald, Germany. The focus of his research includes basic studies on the interaction of plasmas with surfaces, complex plasmas and their applications in plasma technology. In 1999, he received the Greifswald Plasma Physics Prize in recognition of his research. Professor Kersten was furthermore the president of the German Society for Plasma Technology from 2009 to 2013. He is currently an Editor-in-Chief of the European Physical Journal Techniques and Instrumentation (EPJTI) and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Kiel University.
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Michael Keidar is A. James Clark Professor of Engineering. His research concerns plasma physics and engineering with application in plasma medicine, advanced spacecraft propulsion, and plasma-based nanotechnology. He has authored over 300 journal articles, 300 conference papers, author of textbook “Plasma Engineering” and Editor of book “Plasma Cancer Therapy”. He received 2017 Davidson award for plasma physics. In 2016 he received AIAA Engineer of the Year award for his work on micropropulsion resulted in successful launch of nanosatellite with thrusters developed by his laboratory. He received Plasma Medicine Award in 2021 for his contribution to plasma medicine. Prof. Keidar serves as an Editor in Chief of Journal of Electric Propulsion, Associate editor of AIP Advances, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions in Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences and member of editorial board of many journals. He is elected Fellow of National Academy of Investors, Fellow of American Physical Society and Fellow of American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics. He is elected President of the Electric Rocket Propulsion Society.
Luís L. Alves has a PhD in Physics from the Lisbon Technical University (Portugal, 1993), was a postdoctoral fellow at Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas (France, 1997) and obtained the title of "Agregado" in Engineering Physics by the Lisbon Technical University (Portugal, 2006). He is Full Professor in the Department of Physics of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), the coordinator of the Scientific Domain of Plasma Physics, Lasers and Nuclear Fusion of the same department and a former Head of this department. He is the Head of group N-Plasmas Reactive: Modelling and Engineering (N-PRiME) with Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, where is also serves as member of the Governing Board, and member of the Governing Board of the Advanced Programme in Plasma Science and Engineering (APPLAuSE 2020). Currently, he is member of the Scientific Council of IST. Luís L. Alves works in the modelling and simulation of low-temperature plasmas. His research focuses on the study of microwave and radio-frequency discharges, and the development of kinetic models of interest for material science, biological and environmental applications. He has co-authored over 250 technical publications, including over 90 journal papers, he was guest editor of 7 special issues in international journals, gave over 35 invited lectures at national and international conferences, and has 7 patents registered (3 granted). He supervises(d) 10 PhD theses and 12 MSc/BSc theses/projects. He is the PI behind the development of the LisbOn KInetics (LoKI) simulation tool (https://nprime.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/loki/ ) Currently, he is an Associate Editor of Plasma Sources Science and Technology.
Jochen Schein studied electrical engineering at the Ruhr University and had his Phd in plasma technology in 1996. From 1996 to 1998 he was a postdoc in plasma diagnostics at the Department for Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota (USA). He then moved to Alameda Applied Sciences Corp. as a Principal Scientist. in California (USA), where he worked in the field of satellite propulsion. From 2004 to 2006 he was a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on the National Ignition Facility's fusion experiments in that laboratory. Since August 2006 he is a professor at the Institute for Plasma Technology and Mathematics within the Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. His research interests are in plasma physics, plasma technology and satellite propulsion.
Gerrit Kroesen studied Applied Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology from 1977 to 1983. He completed his PhD on plasma physics in 1988 and was appointed Assistant Professor in the Elementary Processes in Gas Discharges (EPG) group in 1985. He took a sabbatical at IBM in New York (USA) in 1990, and another one at the University of Kyoto (Japan) in 1997. Kroesen still works in the EPG group, since 1996 as Associate Professor and since 2000 as Full Professor, focusing on experimental plasma physics. He became Dean of Applied Physics in 2012. Gerrit Kroesen has constantly strived to push the boundaries of plasma physics, by following a combined effort of experiments, diagnostics, theory and modeling. His research focuses on the internal elementary processes in the plasma, but also touches upon phenomena induced at surfaces that are in contact with the plasma. Different application areas have captured his interest over the years. Starting in plasma etching and plasma deposition, he moved on to environmental applications, plasma displays, dusty plasmas, EUV producing plasmas, EUV produced plasmas, to medical applications. He coauthored 200+ papers and 10 patents, and supervised 150+ PhD and MSc theses. Gerrit Kroesen was awarded the Von Engel and Franklin Prize in 2015 for “his pioneering work on plasma deposition and etching where he improved the understanding of plasma and sheath dynamics, plasma and sheath chemistry” and for “his leading contributions to dusty plasma physics, lighting and EUV sources, and his pioneering work in plasma medicine”.
Pavel Baroch is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics- Faculty of Applied Sciences, UWB and the Head of the Department of Physics and NTIS - European Centre of Excellence. Since 2014, he was the Vice-Dean for Strategy and Public Affairs, then the Vice-Dean for International Cooperation and External Relations of the Faculty of Applied Sciences, UWB.
He obtained his PhD in 2004 and attended the EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, Japan as Postdoctoral fellow before joining Department of Physics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, UWB as Assistant Professor in 2006.
He is Specialized in plasma technologies, reactive magnetron deposition of thin films, high power pulsed magnetron sputtering and design of plasma sources and vacuum systems.
He is also member of the Scientific committee of Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology (SPPT) and of the Program committee of the International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (PSE).
Tiberiu MINEA is the Director since 2015 of the first plasma physics laboratory in France - Laboratory of Physics of Gases and Plasma (LPGP) - founded in 1965 at University Paris-Sud. He got full Professor position since 2008 in the same University, the Docent degree in 2006 and the Ph.D. in 1998. He is the head of the group Theory and Modeling of Plasmas-Discharge and Surfaces at LPGP since 2006. Prior, he was full time CNRS senior scientist with the Jean Rouxel Material Institute in Nantes, France. He coordinated over thirty research projects and has been involved in many others. His research is deeply related to plasma physics and plasma processing, particularly coating and novel plasma devices for technological applications. In 2016 he was awarded by the Romanian Academy of Science. He was the president of the Plasma division of the French Physical Society (2010-2013), the President of the French Federation of the Scientific Societies (F2S) formed by the Physical, Optical, Electrical and Vacuum Societies (2014-2017). At present, he is the Vice-President of the F2S and the President of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the French Vacuum Society (FVS) since 2013 where he acts as member of the board since 2008.
Dr Nevena Puač has obtained B.Sc. Degree in 1998., M.Sc. Degree 2000-2003 and PhD Degree 2003-2007 at the Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade. She works at the Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade where she is head of Center of Excellence for Non-Equilibrium processes. She was the Action Chair/Scientific representative of the multidisciplinary COST Action CA19110 “PlAgri - Plasma applications for smart and sustainable agriculture” (2020-2024). Dr Puač was PI of several international and national projects. She has published more than 70 publications, and her h-index is 31 with more than 2700 citations. Most of the highly cited papers that she has published are in the field of applications of plasma in biology and medicine. As a leader in the field she has given more than 40 invited lectures at renowned international conferences and as a guest of different institutes and universities.
André Anders has a joint appointment as the Director and CEO of the Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering, Leipzig, Germany, and Professor of Applied Physics at the Felix Bloch Institute of Solid State Physics, Leipzig University. He assumed these positions in September of 2017 after working as Staff Scientist and later Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA, USA, since 1992. He studies physics in Wroclaw, Poland, Berlin, (East) Germany, and Moscow (Russia, then Soviet Union), to obtain his PhD degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from Humboldt University in Berlin. Dr. Anders has worked for over 30 years in basic and applied plasma physics and material science. Before assuming his current positions in Leipzig, he became experienced in managing projects as group leader and principal investigator in Berkeley, developing disruptive plasma and materials technologies, advising students, and teaching courses. He is engaged in the scientific and technical communities as officer of several conference committees and advisory boards. He is the author of three books and over 300 peer-reviewed journal papers in physics and material science (h-index 63, close to 15,000 citations, Google Scholar 2018). Decision maker as Associated Editor and since 2014 Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Applied Physics for the American Institute of Physics Publishing, Melville, NY. Internationally recognized by awards and election to Fellow of several professional societies.
Yasunori Tanaka (Member) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Nagoya University in 1993, 1995, and 1998, respectively. In April 1998, he was appointed a Research Associate at Kanazawa University, and an Associate Professor at that university in August 2002. He has been working as a Professor since August 2010 at the same university. One of his papers has been selected as a leading paper in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics in 2004. His research interests include arc interruption phenomena and thermal plasma applications such as nano powder synthesis. Professor Tanaka is a member a member of Plasma and Fusion Research.
Professor Arutiun Ehiasarian is the Head of the National HIPIMS Technology Centre - UK and Director of the Joint SHU-Fraunhofer IST HIPIMS Research Centre opened in 2010. He has been part of the Nanotechnology Centre for PVD Research at Sheffield Hallam University since 1998. Arutiun is one of the pioneers of high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS) technology. His research concentrates on the development of plasma PVD technologies to improve the performance of coatings used for wear, oxidation and corrosion protection in automotive, aerospace and orthopaedic industries, as well as through-silicon via metallisation for semiconductor wafer processing, thin film photovoltaics, cryogenic materials for space satellites and superconducting thin films for particle accelerator cavities. Arutiun is the Chair of the International Conference on HIPIMS organized jointly by Sheffield Hallam University and Fraunhofer IST, and a Fellow of the AVS and the institute of Physics.
Luka Hansen is a postdoctoral researcher in the Experimental Plasma Physics group at the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics at Kiel University. He received his PhD in Physics from Kiel University for his experimental work in the Plasma Technology group in 2023. His dissertation, entitled "Design and Diagnostic of a Microdischarge for in situ TEM Investigation of Plasma Surface Processes", aimed to develop a microplasma device capable of being used inside a TEM and was awarded the Kiel Nano, Surface and Interface Science (KiNSIS) dissertation prize in 2023.
Luka Hansen's research focuses on conventional and non-conventional plasma diagnostics applied to atmospheric and low-pressure plasmas, especially targeting the plasma surface interaction. “For his achievements and engagement in the field of plasma and ion surface engineering during his young career” he received the PSE Early Career Award in 2024.