French microscopist
Sophie Brasselet is a French optical physicist whose research interests include nonlinear optics , the optical and fluorescent properties of biomolecules , the optical manipulation of molecules , and the development of instrumentation for biological imaging, over scales ranging from single molecules to multi-cellular tissues. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and the director of the Fresnel Institute in Marseille (France ) also affiliated with the Mosaic advanced photonics group within the institute.[1]
Education and career
Brasselet studied optics and photonics as a student at the École supérieure d'optique , completing her studies in 1994. She went on to a doctorate in 1997 at Paris-Sud University , under the supervision of Joseph Zyss .[2]
After postdoctoral research at Stanford University in California with William E. Moerner , she returned to France in 2000 as an assistant professor at the École normale supérieure de Cachan . In 2006, she moved to Aix-Marseille University and in 2009 she was named a director of research within the CNRS.[2]
Recognition
Brasselet received the CNRS Silver Medal in 2016.[3] In 2022 she won the Léon Brillouin grand prize of the French Optical Society (La Société Française d'Optique), the first female winner of this prize.[1]
She was named a Fellow of Optica , in the 2022 class of fellows, "for advancing fundamental knowledge of molecular nonlinear optics and application to polarization-resolved nonlinear and super resolution orientation microscopy".[4]
References
^ a b Sophie Brasselet, Léon Brillouin Prize 2022 , Institut Fresnel, retrieved 2023-03-01
^ a b "Sophie Brasselet, Ph.D." , People , Sophie Brasselet, Ph.D.Institut Fresnel, retrieved 2023-03-01
^ Sophie Brasselet, Directrice de recherche CNRS, Médaille d'argent du CNRS 2016 (in French), CNRS, September 2016, retrieved 2023-03-01
^ 2022 Fellows , Optica, retrieved 2023-03-01
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