Dominique Langevin#
| Membership Number: | 2100 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2001 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.lps.u-psud.fr/spip.php?rubrique41&lang=fr |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 1998 Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay, France
- 1994-1997 Director, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Bordeaux, France
- 1988-1994 Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'E.N.S, France
- 1976-1977 Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée (director P.G.de Gennes), Collège de France
- 1969-1976 and 1977-1988 Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Herztienne de l’ENS now LKB (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel), France
Fields of Scholarship
- Experimental soft matter physics (surfactants, liquid cystals, polymers, nanoparticles)
- Structure and dynamic properties of monolayers, micelles, thin liquid films, foams, emulsions and microemulsions
- Surface and bulk light scattering, excited surface waves techniques, ellipsometry, fluorescence recovery, brewster angle microscopy, videomicroscopy
Honours and Awards
- 1991 Grand prix de l’Académie des Sciences (Institut Français du pétrole)
- 2002 Silver Medal CNRS
- 2004 Prix Gentler-Kastler de la Société Française de Physique
- 2005 L’Oreal-Unesco award “Women in Science”
- 2006 Légion d’honneur
- 2009 Ambassador for Europe, Year of Creativity and Innovation
