Nathalie Picqué
{{short description|French molecular and laser physicist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Nathalie Picqué
| image =
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| fields = Physics
| workplaces = Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
French National Centre for Scientific Research
| alma_mater = Paris-Saclay University
Paris-Sorbonne University
Ecole Polytechnique
| birth_place = France
| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|December 2, 1973}}
| known_for = Frequency Combs
| website = http://www.frequency-comb.eu
}}
Nathalie Picqué (born Demeber 2, 1973) is a French physicist working at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics{{Cite web|url=https://www.mpq.mpg.de/person/34820/4571983|title=Dr. Nathalie Picqué | Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics|website=www.mpq.mpg.de}} in the field Frequency Combs, where she studies ultra-high resolution spectroscopy using ultrashort pulses of light combined with Fourier-transform spectroscopy{{cite journal|doi=10.1038/nphoton.2008.293|title=Fourier transform spectroscopy with a laser frequency comb|year=2009|last1=Mandon|first1=Julien|last2=Guelachvili|first2=Guy|last3=Picqué|first3=Nathalie|journal=Nature Photonics|volume=3|issue=2|pages=99–102|bibcode=2009NaPho...3...99M}} to reveal the fine chemistry of samples, in particular in the mid-infrared,{{cite journal|doi=10.1038/nphoton.2012.142|title=Mid-infrared frequency combs|year=2012|last1=Schliesser|first1=Albert|last2=Picqué|first2=Nathalie|last3=Hänsch|first3=Theodor W.|journal=Nature Photonics|volume=6|issue=7|pages=440–449|arxiv=1205.3395|bibcode=2012NaPho...6..440S|s2cid=118495490}} demonstrating resolving power in excess of 1,000,000,000,000.
Education and career
Nathalie Picqué received{{Cite web|url=https://www.osa.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/fellow_members/recent_fellows/2019_fellows/|title=Recent Fellows - Awards & Grants – The Optical Society (OSA) | Optica}} 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.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://econos-online.org/?page_id=255|title=Invited Speakers}} She is now a scientist in the Emeritus Group Laser Spectroscopy{{Cite web|url=http://www2.mpq.mpg.de/~haensch/|title=Homepage Prof. T.W. Haensch|website=www2.mpq.mpg.de}} 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.{{cite journal|doi=10.1073/pnas.2010878117|title=Photon-level broadband spectroscopy and interferometry with two frequency combs|year=2020|last1=Picqué|first1=Nathalie|last2=Hänsch|first2=Theodor W.|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=117|issue=43|pages=26688–26691|pmid=33055211|pmc=7604441|arxiv=1906.03706|bibcode=2020PNAS..11726688P|s2cid=182952751|doi-access=free}}
Awards and honors
- 1999 Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellowship{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}
- 2007 Bronze Medal of the CNRS {{Cite web|url=https://www.cnrs.fr/index.php/fr/personne/nathalie-picque|title = Nathalie Picqué | CNRS| date=September 2007 }}
- 2008 Jean-Jerphagnon Prize (French Physical Society, French Optical Society, French Academy of Technologies) {{Cite web |url=http://www.prixjeanjerphagnon.org/2008 |title=2008 | Prix Jean Jerphagnon |access-date=2021-01-13 |archive-date=2014-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111035156/http://www.prixjeanjerphagnon.org/2008 |url-status=dead }}
- 2010 Beller Lectureship Award {{Cite web| title=APS Beller Lectureship Recipients | url=https://www.aps.org/programs/international/programs/upload/ALL-Beller-Recipients.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620003654/http://aps.org/programs/international/programs/upload/ALL-Beller-Recipients.pdf | archive-date=2010-06-20}}
- 2013 Coblentz Award {{Cite web|url=https://www.coblentz.org/awards/the-coblentz-award/|title=The Coblentz Award - Molecular Spectroscopy | Coblentz Society}}
- 2019 Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA)
- 2021 Gentner-Kastler Prize (German Physical Society, French Physical Society){{Cite web|url=https://www.dpg-physik.de/auszeichnungen/dpg-preise-mit-anderen-organisationen/gentner-kastler-preis-und-medaille/preistraeger|title = Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger}}
- 2021 Advanced Grant (European Research Council) {{Cite web|url=https://www.mpq.mpg.de/6711030/04-erc-advanced-grant-for-nathalie-picque |title = ERC Advanced Grant for Nathalie Picqué}}
- 2022 Helmholtz Prize (PTB) {{Cite web|url=https://idw-online.de/de/news792519|title = Helmholtz-Preis für zwei Optik-Gruppen mit Weltklasse}}
- 2022 Falling Walls Science Breakthrough in Physical Sciences {{Cite web|url=https://falling-walls.com/people/nathalie-picque/|title = Nathalie Picqué 2022 Science Breakthrough in Physical Sciences}}
- 2023 : Grand Prix Cécile DeWitt-Morette / École de Physique des Houches of the French Academy of Sciences. {{Cite web|url= https://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Laureats/laureate-2023-du-prix-cecile-dewitt-morette-ecole-de-physique-des-houches-cfm-fondation-pour-la-recherche-nathalie-picque.html |title = Nathalie Picqué 2023 Grand Prix Cécile DeWitt-Morette}}}
- 2024 : William F. Meggers Award, Optica.
References
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External links
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Category:French women physicists
Category:Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni
Category:Paris-Saclay University alumni
Category:French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists
Category:Fellows of Optica (society)
Category:Paris-Sorbonne University alumni
Category:French optical physicists
Category:20th-century French physicists
Category:20th-century French women scientists