Christine Charles

About

Professor Christine Charles is Head of the Space Plasma, Power and Propulsion laboratory at the Australian National University (ANU). Born in Brittany (France), she has a French Engineering degree in applied physics, a PhD in plasma physics, a French Habilitation thesis in materials science and an ANU Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz. For the past twenty five years, she has been working on experimental expanding plasmas and their applications to astrophysical plasmas, electric propulsion, microelectronics, optoelectronics and hydrogen fuel cells. She is the inventor of the Helicon Double Layer Thruster, a new electrode-less magneto-plasma thruster for space use.