29th International on School on Low Temperature Plasma Physics: Basics and Applications in 2025

Program of the International School on Low Temperature Plasma Physics and its Master Class 2025

In 2025, the 29th International School on 'Low Temperature Plasma Physics: Basics and Applications' (03 Oct - 08 Oct 2026) and its Master Class 'N.N.' (09 Oct - 10 Oct 2026 ) takes place at the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (Germany).

Program of the School

We are looking forward to it because, once again, we are putting together a very promising program, with the support of many colleagues who are willing to give a talk at the School.

05/10/2025
08:45 Welcome and introductive words
Marc Böke & Marina Prenzel / Rony Snyders & Stephanos Konstatinidis (Ruhr-University Bochum & UMons, Belgium)
09:00 Introduction I: Fundamentals of Plasma Physics
Achim von Keudell (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Introduction II: Fundamentals of Plasma Physics
Achim von Keudell (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
12:15 Lunch break
13:45 Plasma modelling I: General Overview
Annemie Bogaerts (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
15:15 Coffee break
15:30 Plasma sources I: Micro-wave plasmas
Ante Hecimovic (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Germany)
17:00 Forum with teachers
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Evening lecture: History of plasma physics
Holger Kersten (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany)


06/10/2025
09:00 Plasma modelling II: Electron kinetics in atomic and molecular plasmas
Luís L. Alves (Lisbon Technical University, Portugal)
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Plasma modelling III: Fluid modelling of discharge plasmas
Luís L. Alves (Lisbon Technical University, Portugal)
12:15 Lunch break
13:45 Plasma diagnostics I: Basics of plasma spectroscopy
Sylvain Iséni (GREMI Orléans, France)
15:15 Coffee break
15:30 Plasma sources II: High pressure thermal plasmas and sources
Tony Murphy (CSIRO, Australia)
17:00 Forum with teachers
18:30 School Dinner


07/10/2025
09:00 Plasma diagnostics II: Measuring electron density and ion flux
Jean-Paul Booth (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Plasma diagnostics III: Advanced optical diagnostics
Richard Engeln (ASML, The Netherlands)
12:15 Lunch break
14:00 Experimental Workshop II
Sylvain Iséni (GREMI Orléans, France)
14:00 Experimental Workshop I
Olivier Guaitella (École Polytechnique, France)
14:00 Modelling: Hands on a Boltzmann solver
Luís L. Alves & Antonio Tejero del Caz (University of Lisbon, Portugal & University of Cordoba, Spain)
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Evening lecture: Glim Skin from idea to prototype to market
Friederike Kogelheide (SkinLove Ruhr GmbH)


08/10/2025
09:00 Plasma sources III: High density magnetized plasma sources
Diederik Depla (Ghent University, Belgium)
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Plasma sources IV: DBDs
Olivier Guaitella (École Polytechnique, France)
12:15 Lunch break
13:45 Plasma technologies I: Material processing
Stephanos Konstantinidis (University of Mons, Belgium)
15:15 Coffee break
15:30 Plasma technologies II: Plasma Chemistry for Bio
Nevena Puač (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia)
17:00 Forum with teachers
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Poster session
Rony Snyders & Stephanos Konstantinidis (University of Mons, Belgium)


09/10/2025
09:00 Plasma diagnostics IV: Plasma-Surface Interactions
Jan Benedikt (Kiel University, Germany)
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Plasma technologies III: Developments at high pressure and in liquids
Tomáš Hoder & Zdeněk Bonaventura (Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic)
12:30 Lunch


10/10/2025
08:45 Welcome and introductive words
Rony Snyders (University of Mons, Belgium)
09:00 Fundamental of plasma polymerization
Dirk Hegemann (Empa St.Gallen, Switzerland)
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Atmospheric pressure plasma in plasma polymerization
François Reniers (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 Diagnostic of plasma polymerization processes
Damien Thiry (University of Mons, Belgium)
15:30 Poster session/coffee break
16:30 Plasma polymers and bio-applications
Pietro Favia (University of Bari, Italy)
19:00 Dinner


11/10/2025
09:00 Nanostructuring organic coatings
Ondřej Kylián (Charles University, Czech Republic)
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Engineering the Nanoscale: Smart Coatings & Morphogenesis in Plasma Polymerization
Vincent Roucoules (Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse, France)
12:30 Lunch