Françoise Combes#
| Membership Number: | 2690 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://aramis.obspm.fr/~combes http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/francoise-combes |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 Professeur in Collège de France (chaire: Galaxies et Cosmologie)
- 2007 - 2014 Astronomer (CE) at Paris Observatory (CE2 in 2011)
- 1996 - 2006 Astronomer (1cl) at Paris Observatory
- 1989 - 1996 Astronomer (2cl) at Paris Observatory
- 1985 - 1989 Staff-director of the Physics Laboratory in Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm), Paris
- 1983 - 1985 Part-time lecturer in Paris 6 (C4 and DEA)
- 1978 - 1985 Associate-Professor in Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
- 1975 - 1978 Assistant-Professor in Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm), Paris
Fields of Scholarship
- Dynamics of Galaxies: spiral structure, barred density waves
- Interaction between galaxies; N-body simulations of galaxies (FFT, tree-code)
- Gas hydrodynamics (collisions, SPH, etc.), for evolution and formation of galaxies
- Interstellar medium of galaxies, observations of new molecules
- Galaxies at large redshift, cosmic star formation
- Molecular absorption lines in front of quasars
- Dark matter in the universe
Honours and Awards
- 2021 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Award
- 2017 Honorary member of AAS (American Astronomical Society)
- 2015 Officier de la Légion d'Honneur
- 2015 Honorary Member of SF2A
- 2013 R.M. Petrie Prize of the Canadian Astronomical Society
- 2013 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
- 2012 Award of the Three Scientists, ENS
- 2011 Chaire Prof. A. Blaauw in Groningen
- 2010 ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grant
- 2009 Officer of national order of merit
- 2009 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2009 Tycho Brahe Prize of the EAS, European Astronomical Society
- 2006 Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur
- 2004 Member of French Science Academy
- 2001 Silver Medal of CNRS
- 1993 Prize Petit d'Ormoy of French Science Academy
- 1986 IBM Prize in Physics
