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 cau ...

working on quantum gas at Laser Physics Laboratory of

Université Sorbonne Paris Nord Sorbonne Paris North University () 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 located in north of Paris, in the munici ...

and

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

, 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 The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (), also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée (French secondary school, also known as sixth form college) located on Rue Saint-Jacques (Paris), rue Saint-Jacques in central Par ...

, and pursued a master's degree in quantum physics at Ecole Normale Superieure, before pursuing a doctorate within

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (; born 1 April 1933) is a French physicist. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and magnetic trap (atoms), trapping atoms. Currentl ...

's group on the topic of

ultracold atoms In condensed matter physics, an ultracold atom is an atom with a temperature near absolute zero. At such temperatures, an atom's quantum-mechanical properties become important, especially through what's known as a "superfluid", such as Superfl ...

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

French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, or CEA ( French: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives), is a French public government-funded research organisation in the areas of energy, defense and sec ...

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