Hélène Perrin (born 1972) is a French

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

working on

quantum gas In physics, a quantum (plural quanta) is the minimum amount of any physical entity (physical property) involved in an interaction. The fundamental notion that a physical property can be "quantized" is referred to as "the hypothesis of quantizati ...

at Laser Physics Laboratory of

Université Sorbonne Paris Nord Sorbonne Paris North University (french: Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) is a public university based in Paris, France. It is one of the thirteen universities that succeeded the University of Paris in 1968. It is a multidisciplinary university l ...

and

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, where she is a research director and leads the Bose-Einstein Condensate group.

Education and career

Hélène Perrin studied physics and engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique after studying at Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and pursued a master's degree in quantum physics at Ecole Normale Superieure, before pursuing a doctorate within Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's group on the topic of

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, Refroidissement d'atomes de césium confinés dans un piège dipolaire très désaccordé
/ref> which she completed in 1998. She then joined the

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as a postdoctoral fellow before becoming a

staff scientist in 1999.

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* 1972 births Living people Quantum physicists French physicists French women physicists École Polytechnique alumni Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research {{France-physicist-stub