Patrick Mora (born 1952) is a French theoretical plasma physicist who specializes in laser-plasma interactions.
[6] With his colleague Jean-Francois Luciani, he also developed a nonlinear and non-local theory of heat transport in a plasma via electrons.
With Tom Antonsen, he developed a model of the propagation of laser pulses in non-dense plasmas that revealed their tendency to self-focus or to display Raman scattering.
[8][9] Mora developed a theory of the expansion of plasmas into vacuum, which explains the flow dynamics and structure of the ion front.
[15] In 2019, he received the Edward Teller Award from the American Nuclear Society for "his scientific contributions to laser-plasma physics, from laser from laser light absorption to non-local electron heat transport and plasma expansion dynamics, and for his inspiring spirit of community service".