Astrid Lambrecht (born 20 January 1967) is a German physicist who is Director at
Forschungszentrum Jülich. She previously worked as the Deputy Director of the
French National Centre for Scientific Research Institute of Physics.
Early life and education
Lambrecht was born in
Mülheim. She completed her undergraduate studies in physics at the
University of Duisburg-Essen and
Imperial College London.
At Imperial College, she worked alongside
Peter Knight.
She moved to
Paris for her doctoral research, studying quantum fluctuations of cold atoms at the
Kastler–Brossel Laboratory.
Based in the laboratory of
Elisabeth Giacobino, she used an optical cavity and magneto-optic trap to study quantum noise. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. Lambrecht completed her
habilitation
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at the
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussi ...
.
Research and career
Lambrecht was appointed to the Institute of Physics at research leader at the
French National Centre for Scientific Research,
where she studied quantum fluctuations in cold matter.
In particular, she worked on the
Casimir effect. The Casimir effect is exploited in
microelectromechanical systems
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. At the same time, Lambrecht demonstrated that the Casimir effect has fundamental impacts in biology and chemistry. In 2014, she was made deputy director of the Kastler–Brossel Laboratory, and in 2016, Deputy Scientific Director at the CNRS headquarters.
She was nominated Director of the Institute of Physics in 2018. In 2021, Lambrecht joined the Board of Directors at the
Forschungszentrum Jülich.
Awards and honours
* 2005
Société Française de Physique Aimé Cotton Award
* 2013
CNRS
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
silver medal
* 2016 Gentner-Kastler-Prize
* 2019 French Legion of Honour
Selected publications
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References
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1967 births
Living people
People from Mülheim
University of Duisburg-Essen alumni
Alumni of Imperial College London
20th-century German physicists
21st-century German physicists
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research