Institut Pprime
Institut Pprime is a CNRS laboratory created in 2010 and based in Poitiers, France.Presentation
The institute depends from the University of Poitiers, ENSI Poitiers and Ensma and has the UPR number 3346. It is the second-largest laboratory from engineering science in France with 572 people working for it in 2014. It has locations in both campus of Poitiers and Futuroscope. It is currently led by Yves Gervais since 2014 after Jean-Paul Bonnet.
The laboratory is sub-divided in three departments:
It is the merger of six previous laboratories which was:
- , Laboratoire de combustion et de détonique UPR 9028
- , Laboratoire d’études aérodynamiques UMR 6609
- , Laboratoire d’études thermiques UMR 6608
- , Laboratoire de physique des matériaux UMR 6630
- , Laboratoire de mécanique et physique des matériaux UMR 6617
- , Laboratoire de mécanique des solides Laboratory of Solid Mechanics) UMR 6610
