Anne-Christine Hladky-Hennion (born 1965) is a French researcher in

acoustic metamaterial An acoustic metamaterial, sonic crystal, or phononic crystal is a material designed to manipulate sound waves or phonons in gases, liquids, and solids (crystal lattices). By carefully controlling properties such as the bulk modulus ''β'', dens ...

s. She is a director of research for the

French National Centre for Scientific Research The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 engi ...

(CNRS), and scientific deputy director of the CNRS (INSIS).

Education and career

Hladky is originally from

Lille Lille (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in F ...

, where she was born in 1965. After earning a diploma in 1987 from the

Institut supérieur de l'électronique et du numérique The ''Institut supérieur de l'électronique et du numérique'' (ISEN; Higher Institute for Electronics and Digital Training) is a group composed of four French grandes écoles (higher education establishments). They propose a high level engineeri ...

in Lille, she continued her education at the

Lille University of Science and Technology The Lille 1 University of Science and Technology (, USTL) was a French university located on a dedicated main campus in Villeneuve d'Ascq, near Lille (Hauts-de-France - European Metropolis of Lille), with 20,000 full-time students plus 14,5 ...

, where she earned a doctorate in 1990, in

materials science Materials science is an interdisciplinary field of researching and discovering materials. Materials engineering is an engineering field of finding uses for materials in other fields and industries. The intellectual origins of materials sci ...

. Her doctoral dissertation, ''Application de la méthode des éléments finis à la modélisation de structures périodiques utilisées en acoustique'', was supervised by Jean-Noël Decarpigny. She joined CNRS in 1992, and became a director of research in 2015.

Recognition

Hladky was the 1990 winner of the Young Researcher Prize of the French Acoustical Society. In 2018 she received the

CNRS Silver Medal The CNRS Silver Medal is a scientific award given every year to about fifteen researchers by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). It is awarded to a researcher for "the originality, quality and importance of their work, re ...

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