Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille

In 2011, she co-authored with her husband Jacques Delabrouille, Les nouveaux messagers du cosmos (The new messengers of the Cosmos). During the year 2013-2014, she became visiting researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, and she became director of that laboratory's Physics Division.

From 2002 to 2011, Palanque-Delabrouille participated in the corrections of the physics tests for the entrance examination to the École Polytechnique. In 2008, she worked with astrophysicist Hubert Reeves on the book Little history of matter and the universe. In 2009 she was appointed senior expert at the CEA in astroparticles and cosmology, and then, in 2014, was named director of research at the CEA.

Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, (born, 31 October 1970 in Ermont), is a French cosmologist. During her career as a researcher in particle physics, she has taken part in several large-scale experiments. Her work has been recognized several times including the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize, the appointment as Knight of the Legion of Honor and her election to the French Academy of Sciences.

Born in 1970, Palanque-Delabrouille earned an engineering degree from Télécom Paris in 1992 and became a research assistant in the physics department at the University of Chicago. The following year, she became a research assistant in the department of astronomy and astrophysics at the same university. In 1997, Palanque-Delabrouille defended her doctoral thesis Research on galactic dark matter by gravitational microlensing effect in joint supervision between the University of Chicago and the Paris Diderot University, directed by David Schramm and E. Aubourg. In the same year, she obtained a permanent research position at the Institute for research into the fundamental laws of the universe at CEA Saclay (Saclay Nuclear Research Center).