Nathalie Picqué (born Demeber 2, 1973) is a French physicist working at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in the field Frequency Combs, where she studies ultra-high resolution spectroscopy using ultrashort pulses of light combined with Fourier-transform spectroscopy to reveal the fine chemistry of samples, in particular in the mid-infrared, demonstrating resolving power in excess of 1,000,000,000,000.
Education and career Nathalie Picqué received a master's degree in laser physics from Paris-Sorbonne University (formerly known as Pierre and Marie Curie University) and Ecole Polytechnique, in Paris, France, and completed a doctoral degree in physics from Paris-Saclay University (formerly known as Université Paris-Sud), in Orsay, France in 1998. In 2000 she was awarded the Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship to work at the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy in Florence, Italy. In 2001, she became a staff scientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Orsay, France. She joined Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in 2008 as a part-time visiting scientist, before relocating her laboratory in Garching while becoming the leader of the research group. She is now a scientist in the Emeritus Group Laser Spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in, Germany, where she works together with Nobel Prize laureate Theodor W. Hänsch on dual-combs spectroscopy.
Awards and honors 1999 Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellowship 2007 Bronze Medal of the CNRS 2008 Jean-Jerphagnon Prize (French Physical Society, French Optical Society, French Academy of Technologies) 2010 Beller Lectureship Award 2013 Coblentz Award 2019 Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA) 2021 Gentner-Kastler Prize (German Physical Society, French Physical Society) 2021 Advanced Grant (European Research Council) 2022 Helmholtz Prize (PTB) 2022 Falling Walls Science Breakthrough in Physical Sciences 2023 : Grand Prix Cécile DeWitt-Morette / École de Physique des Houches of the French Academy of Sciences. 2024 : William F. Meggers Award, Optica.
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