Launch of the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics PSIA2

The Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics PSIA2

The Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (PSIA2), created in January 2022, aims to highlight scientific activities around aerospace and its impacts within the perimeter of the Paris-Saclay establishments. It has three components: training, research, and promotion/communication with companies.

Pierre-Alain Boucard, director of the Laboratoire de Mécanique Paris-Saclay (LMPS) shares the coordination of the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics with Anne Tanguy, scientific director of the "Materials and Structures Domain" at ONERA and Sébastien Ducruix, director of the EM2C laboratory de CentraleSupélec - CNRS.

Scientific axes of the Institute

• Axis 1: Propulsion/Energy which concerns the modes of propulsion of aeronautics and astronautics;
• Axis 2: Fluids/Structures/Materials which includes studies in fluid and solid mechanics for aircraft and in materials science for the architecture of all types of aircraft and space vehicles;
• Axis 3: Control/Systems, which concerns the management and control of flight commands, the optimization of isolated or swarm trajectories, or the man/machine interface.

The common concern of environmental and societal impacts of air mobility and space activities will be present in these 3 research axes.

The Institute is a partner of several Graduate Schools of the University: the GS Engineering Sciences and Systems - to which the Institute is directly attached -; the GS Chemistry; the GS Geosciences, Climate, Environment, Planets; the GS Computer Science and Digital Sciences; the GS Research and Higher Education. The Institute is also linked to GS Economics & Management, GS Mathematics and GS Physics.

Kick-Off Meeting

Programm

• 2:00 pm: opening by the representatives of the ONERA management and the University of Paris-Saclay - Jacques Lafaye, Michel Guidal, Philippe Maître, Paul-Henry Cournède
• 2:30 pm: presentation of the Paris-Saclay Aeronautics and Astronautics Institute - Genesis, scope, objectives - Executive Board - Pierre-Alain Boucard, Sébastien Ducruix, Anne Tanguy - and representatives of the steering committee
• 3:00 pm: presentation of the AsTech competitiveness cluster by Séverine Coupé
• 3:15 pm: presentation of the Ile de France Aerospace Trades and Qualifications Campus by Sophie Uhl
• 3:30 p.m.: coffee break & partners' forum
• 4:00 p.m.: lecture by Sandra Bour-Schaeffer, CEO of Airbus UpNext and head of Airbus demonstrators, "The challenges of aerospace today
• 4:30 p.m.: lecture by Christophe Laux, University Professor and ERC 2020 researcher & EM2C laboratory (CentraleSupélec & CNRS), Specialist in plasmas for aerospace, "Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and atmospheric pollutants through plasma-assisted hydrogen combustion
• 5:00 pm: cocktail (to be confirmed) & partners' forum