Julien Fuchs awarded by The European Research Council (ERC)
- Published: 11 April 2018
Julien Fuchs is CNRS Research Director at the Laboratory for the Use of Intense Lasers (LULI) and teaches at Ecole Polytechnique.
An active member of the PLAS@PAR community, he was a laureate in 2013 of a project at the Institute of Applied Physics of Nizhny Novgorod, a laboratory on plasma phenomena in extreme astrophysical objects.
This year, he is the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grants, which targets high-level researchers recognized as leaders in their respective fields.
GENESIS PROJECT
Objective:
To elucidate the natural conditions necessary for the nucleosynthesis of very heavy elements found throughout the universe by recreating these conditions in the laboratory with new-generation ultraintense lasers.
Principal Investigator:
Julien Fuchs, CNRS researcher at the LULI laboratory (CNRS / CEA / École Polytechnique / Sorbonne University).