Isabelle Cantat (née Durand, born 1974) is a French physicist specializing in
foam
Foams are materials formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid.
A bath sponge and the head on a glass of beer are examples of foams. In most foams, the volume of gas is large, with thin films of liquid or solid separating the reg ...
s and their
fluid dynamics
In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids— liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including ''aerodynamics'' (the study of air and other gases in motion) an ...
. She is a professor in the Institute of Physics at the
Education and career
Cantat was born on 5 January 1974 in
Rennes
Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...
. She earned an
agrégation
In France, the ''agrégation'' () is a competitive examination for civil service in the French public education system. Candidates for the examination, or ''agrégatifs'', become ''agrégés'' once they are admitted to the position of ''professe ...
in physics in 1996 through study at the
École normale supérieure de Lyon
The École normale supérieure de Lyon (also known as ENS de Lyon, ENSL or Normale Sup' Lyon) is a French grande école located in the city of Lyon. It is one of the four prestigious écoles normales supérieures in France. The school is ...
. She completed a doctorate in 1999 and a
habilitation
Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...
in 2006.
After postdoctoral research at
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) (german: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) was founded in 1965 as the successor organisation to Düsseldorf's Medical Academy of 1907 and was named after German poet Heinrich Heine.
Followi ...
in Germany, she became
maître de conférences
''Maître'' (spelled ''Maitre'' according to post-1990 spelling rules) is a commonly used honorific for lawyers, judicial officers and notaries in France, Belgium, Switzerland and French-speaking parts of Canada. It is often written in its abbrev ...
in the Groupe Matière Condensée et Matériaux (GMCM) at the University of Rennes 1, which later became part of the Institute of Physics. In 2007 she was promoted to professor.
Book
Cantat is a coauthor of the book ''Foams: Structure and Dynamics'' (Oxford University Press, 2013, with Sylvie Cohen-Addad, Florence Elias, François Graner, Reinhard Höhler, Olivier Pitois, Florence Rouyer, Arnaud Saint-Jalmes, and Simon Cox).
Recognition
Cantat was named a junior professor 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 ...
in 2009.
References
External links
Home page*
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1974 births
Living people
French physicists
French women physicists
Fluid dynamicists