Particle Kinetics and Laser-Plasma Interactions

Vladimir Tikhonchuk is a professor emeritus at Bordeaux University, France, and a senior researcher at the Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, ELI-Beamlines Facility, Czech Republic. His research is in the domain of high-energy-density physics and nonlinear optics, including inertial confinement fusion and dynamic processes in laboratory astrophysics, laser-plasma interactions, excitation of parametric instabilities, generation of magnetic and electric fields, acceleration of charged particles, and energy transport. He obtained a PhD and Dr of Science degrees from the P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Edward Teller Awardee from the American Nuclear Society, Divisional Associate Editor for the Physical Review Letters, advisory board member of the MRE journal, and Board member of the Division of Plasma Physics of the European Physical Society. He has supervised more than 30 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and co-authored more than 500 peer-reviewed papers.