Annick Loiseau (born 1957) is a French physicist who is a researcher at the
French National Centre for Scientific Research . She was the first woman to be appointed to the Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (
ONERA). Her research considers low-dimensional materials such as
carbon nanotubes,
graphene, and
boron nitride. In 2006 she was awarded the
CNRS Silver Medal.
Early life and education
Loiseau studied at
Chimie ParisTech.
During the end of her studies she completed an internship at the
ONERA solid-state physics laboratory. She moved to the
Paris-Sud University
Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, i ...
for her doctoral studies.
Research and career
Loiseau joined the faculty at the French aerospace laboratory, Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA). At ONERA, she worked on high-resolution
electron microscopy
An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination. As the wavelength of an electron can be up to 100,000 times shorter than that of visible light photons, electron microscopes have a hi ...
, which she developed to study metal
alloys.
In 1992 she became interested in
carbon nanotube
A scanning tunneling microscopy image of a single-walled carbon nanotube
Rotating single-walled zigzag carbon nanotube
A carbon nanotube (CNT) is a tube made of carbon with diameters typically measured in nanometers.
''Single-wall carbon na ...
s, which had recently been discovered by
Sumio Iijima. She started to work on graphene and carbon-nanotubes, and eventually led the Graphene-Nanotube Research Group.
In 1996 Loiseau became the first woman to be appointed research director at ONERA. She has focused on
transmission electron microscopy electron energy loss spectroscopy (TEM–EELS).
Her current research activities focus on synthesis and study of the structural, optical and electronic properties of
nanomaterials by optical spectroscopy and TEM-EELS
Loiseau has been involved in the
Graphene Flagship since its start in 2013 and is a current member of its executive board.
Awards and honours
* 1988 Grand Prix Aluminum Pechiney of the Academy of Sciences
* 1995 Chimie ParisTech metallurgy medal
* 1999 of the
Société Française de Physique
* 2006
CNRS Silver Medal
* 2011
Legion of Honour
Selected publications
Journal articles
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Books
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References
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1957 births
French physicists
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
Living people
Chimie ParisTech alumni