Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet

She was elected a member of the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres on 21 May 2021.

In 2016 she received the Irène-Joliot-Curie Prize for Woman Scientist of the Year for 'her research on the history of the Levant in the 1st millennium BC and the culture of Christians in the Near East, particularly through written objects, manuscripts and inscriptions."

At CNRS, Briquel-Chatonnet has served as a member of the CNRS national committee, section 32, (2004-2008) and of the scientific council of the Institute of Human and Social Sciences of the CNRS (2010-2014). She is also on the school's scientific council for Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (2018-2021).

She was a resident at the National Library of France, Oriental Manuscripts Division (1981-1985), where she notably worked on the first volume of the catalog of Syriac manuscripts. In 2020, she became director of research at the CNRS (“Semitic Worlds” component) and deputy director of the “Orient and Mediterranean” laboratory (UMR 8167).

Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (born 1956) is a French historian and research director. She is a doctor in history, research director at the CNRS, at the Orient and Mediterranean laboratory and a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. In 2016, she was awarded the Irène-Joliot-Curie Prize for Woman Scientist of the Year.

Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, was born on 22 August 1956 in Lyon, France. From 1975-1980, she attended the Ecole Normale Supérieure for young girls, and earned her Agrégation in history in 1978. She completed her doctorate from the University Panthéon-Sorbonne with a thesis on relations between cities of the Phoenician Coast and the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah (1988) and qualified to direct research from the François-Rabelais University in Tours (1999).