Peter Bruggeman's research is focused on low temperature non-equilibrium plasmas. These plasmas enable many environmental, biomedical and renewable energy applications and material processing and chemical technologies.
Lab
Plasma Science and Engineering Group - L130
High Temperature and Plasma Laboratory - L120/L122
ME Research Areas
Plasmas
Biosystems & Bioengineering
ME Impact Areas
Energy Transition
Environment & Sustainability
Human Health
Next Generation Manufacturing
Education
Ph.D. 2008, Applied Physics, Ghent University, Belgium
Msc. 2008, Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium
Msc. 2005, Physics, Ghent University, Belgium
Selected Professional Activities
- Committee member, Decadal Study of Plasma Science (Plasma 2020), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, 2018-2019
- Section editor of plasma and plasma-material interactions for Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP), 2015-present
- Elected member board of directors of the International Society of Plasma Chemistry, 2014-2021
- Technical area coordinator for Plasma and Pulsed Power Diagnostics of 46th IEEE International Pulsed Power and Plasma Science meeting, Orlando, Florida, June 23-28, 2019
- Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing Science, USA, 2018
Professional Background
Associate Director DOE Center for Low Temperature Plasma Interactions with Complex Interfaces, 2019-present
Associate Head of Department, Mechanical Engineering, 2019-present
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2017-present
Director, High Temperature and Plasma Laboratory (2017-present)
Richard and Barbara Nelson Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, 2013-2017
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2009-2010
Visiting research fellow, Loughborough University, UK, 2008 - 2009
