Tomáš Hoder, leader of the Plasma Diagnostics and Modelling research group at the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology and CEPLANT, travelled to France in September 2023. As an invited professor, he works with French colleagues on research on barrier discharges in CO2.
The LAPLACE laboratory at the Université Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier in France is one of the major physics centers for low-temperature plasma research. The head of the Plasma Diagnostics and Modelling research group at the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology, Assoc. prof. Tomáš Hoder, has been collaborating with this laboratory for a long time.
In the framework of the project MOBILITY France of Czech MŠMT, Assoc. prof. Hoder went to Toulouse for a month stay in September 2023. He was invited to France by his colleague Assoc. prof. Nicolas Naudé, with whom he is jointly supervising a PhD student Corentin Bajon. We wrote about their student's work at our department this spring.
Assoc. prof. Tomáš Hoder together with his French colleagues is working on research on barrier discharges in CO2. Their goal is to understand the mechanism of CO2 dissociation in different intensity discharges under atmospheric stress: from Towsend-like to nanosecond pulse discharges. He last visited his French colleagues two years ago, after the end of the Covid pandemic.
Prof. Jochen M. Schneider, Chair of Materials Chemistry (MC) at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, visited CEPLANT center and Department of Plasma Physics and Technology on the 14th of January 2025. The visit is a testament to our ongoing collaboration with Deposition of Thin Films and Nanostructures research group, section PVDLab. Dr. Matej Fekete will also be staying at MC from the 19th of January to the 15th of February 2025.
The Dean of the MU Faculty of Science awards prizes to outstanding collaborating organizations, schools, and individuals. One of the thirteen awards was received by Dr. Vjačeslav Sochora from the SHM company. SHM deals with developing, researching, and preparing PVD coatings for components and various tools.
