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Residence
  
Paris

Notable awards
  
CNRS Silver medal


Fields
  
Astrophysics

Nationality
  
French

Name
  
Francoise Combes

Francoise Combes

Born
  
12 August 1952 (age 71) Montpellier, France (
1952-08-12
)

Alma mater
  
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris Diderot University

Institutions
  
Observatoire de Paris

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Françoise Combes ([fʁɑ̃swaz kɔ̃b]; born 12 August 1952) is a French astrophysicist at Paris Observatory.

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Françoise Combes was elected professor at Collège de France, chair "Galaxies & cosmology" in 2014.

From 1971 to 1975 she studied at the École Normale Supérieure. She obtained the Agrégation in Physics in 1975 and a PhD from Paris Diderot University, with a thesis on the "Dynamics and structure of galaxies".

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Her research works are about galaxy formation and evolution, in a cosmological context : galaxy dynamics, their spiral structure, the role of bars and interactions between Galaxies, studied both through multi-wavelength observations and by numerical simulations. She published extensively on the interstellar medium of galaxies, in particular the molecular gas which gives birth to new stars, in nearby galaxies such as Andromeda, as well as high redshift systems.

Françoise Combes Gravity L39essentiel

To understand the dynamics and formation of galaxies, details on the nature and behavior of dark matter in the Universe are critical. Françoise Combes has contributed to various models of dark matter, and is also interested on alternative solutions, such as modified gravity. In addition she has developed with Daniel Pfenniger a model to account for a large fraction of the dark baryons, which have not yet been identified, under the form of cold molecular gas.

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Awards

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  • 2015: Officer of the French Legion of Honour
  • 2013: R.M. Petrie Prize of the Canadian Astronomical Society
  • 2013: Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • 2012: Prix des Trois Physiciens, ENS
  • 2009: Officer of the National Order of Merit
  • 2009: Member of the Academia Europaea
  • 2003: Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013
  • 2009: Tycho Brahe Prize of the European Astronomical Society
  • 2006: Knight of the French Legion of Honour
  • 2004: Member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • 2001: Silver Medal of the CNRS
  • 1986: IBM physics prize

  • Françoise Combes Bibliographie Franoise Combes Galaxies et cosmologie Collge

    References

    Françoise Combes Wikipedia