Nathalie Picqué

Chargé de Recherche
(Research scientist)

email: nathalie.picque at u-psud.fr

Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire
Unité Propre 3361 du C.N.R.S.
Bâtiment 350
Université de Paris-Sud,
91405 Orsay Cedex,
France
Tel: 33 1 69156649

and

Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik
Hans-Kopfermann-Strasse 1
D-85748 Garching, Germany
Tel.: + 49 89 32905 - 290

Short CV

Appointments:

2001- present : CNRS researcher at Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire, Orsay, France
2000-2001 : Post-doc fellow at Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire, Orsay, France.
1999-2000: Post-doctoral Marie Curie fellow at European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS), Florence, Italy.
10/1996-12/1998 : PhD in Physics at Laboratoire de Physique Moléculaire et Applications (LPMA), Orsay, France. Thesis: " Molecular Species: Recent Approach with Fourier Tranform Spectroscopy.", summa cum laude.

1996: Graduated in Laser physics and nonlinear optics (Rank:1)

Distinctions
- Bronze medal of CNRS 2007
- Rao Prize 1998
- Marie Curie individual fellowship from the EC 1999-2000.

Research:

See the group research pages

Scientific production:

- Author or coauthor of more than 40 papers published in peer-reviewed international journals, and more than 30 papers published on review books and conference proceedings.
- 2 scientific popularization articles
- 16 invited talks at international conferences (Canada, Italy, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Russia, USA, Vietnam),
- 12 international seminars (France, Switzerland & USA)
- more than 100 contributed papers at international conferences.

Recent papers and proceedings are included in the group publications page.

Supervisorship
- Supervisor of 5 PhD students (defense 2005,2005, 2007 & expected in 2009, 2010)
- Supervisor of 21 undergraduate students since 1997.
- Supervisor of 3 post-doctoral researchers.

Scientific projects

- PI or Co-PI of several nationally granted research projects (French ministry of research ACI, Orsay University BQR, National program PNCA, PAI…)
- Co-I of national (BQR, PCMI, IPCM…) and international (NASA) projects

Miscellaneous:

- Reviewer for peer-review journals (Optics Letters, Optics Express, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Optical Materials, Applied Physics B, Optics Communications, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, Comptes Rendus Physique)

- Reviewer for research proposals (Czech Grant agency, Swiss Federal Instute of Technology, Regional french programs)
- Elected member of the Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire council, 2004-