Agnès Barthélémy is a French physicist. She is an expert on

nanostructure A nanostructure is a structure of intermediate size between microscopic and molecular structures. Nanostructural detail is microstructure at nanoscale. In describing nanostructures, it is necessary to differentiate between the number of dimens ...

s. She is a professor at

Université Paris-Sud Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, in ...

and a member of the

Institut Universitaire de France The Institut Universitaire de France (IUF, Academic Institute of France), is a service of the French Ministry of Higher Education that distinguishes each year a small number of university professors for their research excellence, as evidenced by t ...

Education and career

Agnès Barthélémy received her PhD in 1991 from Université Paris-Sud, where she worked under the supervision of

Albert Fert Albert Fert (; born 7 March 1938) is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks. Currently, he is an emeritus professor at Paris-Saclay University in Orsay, ...

Awards

* 2008: Prize "Louis Ancel" of the French Physical Society * 2010: CNRS silver medal * 2015: Prize Nikola Tesla * 2017: Prize Lazare Carnot of the Academy of Science

References

Living people Academic staff of Paris-Sud University Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) French physicists French women physicists {{France-physicist-stub