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Claudine HERMANN-RODRIGUES Full-time professor at Ecole Polytechnique Women, sciences, physics Mél : claudine.hermann@polytechnique.fr french version ABSTRACT
Claudine Hermann is since 1980 deputy director of the Laboratory of Physics of Condensed Matter and a full-time professor at the Ecole Polytechnique in France since 1992. Honoured by many prestigious distinctions in her field, she is also the first woman to have ever reached this position at the Ecole Polytechnique. She has been representing France since 1999 at the Helsinski group of Women and Science at Directorate General Research of the European Union. Author of 75 referred publications and editor of the Journal de Physique, Paris (1990-1997), Claudine Hermann is also the co-founder and president of the French association, Femmes et Sciences (Women and Science).
She has mainly worked in the field of optical properties of solids, especially optical pumping of semiconductors, negative electron affinity photoemission, near-field microscopy and magneto-optics. In the 70's, she worked with IBM, USA, where she studied the low dimensional compound TaS3 by Raman effect, and the resonant Raman scattering and polariton effect on the CdSe semiconductor. During the 80's her activity combined optical pumping and negative electron affinity, a technique based on lowering the semiconductor work function by a surface treatment, thus allowing visible photoemission. More recently, she has shifted her interest to near-field optical microscopy, particularly in the case of nanometric noble metal/ferromagnetic sandwiches.
Claudine Hermann holds the following distinctions : Officer of the Order of Merit (2001), Officer of the Order of the Academic Palms (distinction related to teaching) (1998) and Knight of the Order of the French Legion of Honour (1996).
Education :
- Alumna of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles, 1965
- Agrégation de Physique ( selective examination to become teacher at secondary and university levels) (1969)
- PhD in Solid State Physics (University of Paris VI, 1976) : " Optical pumping in GaSb : optical detection of electron spin resonance"
- Post-doctoral position at Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. , USA (1977-1978)
Distinctions :
- Officer of the order of Merit (2001)
- Officer of the order of the Academic Palms (distinction related to teaching) (1998)
- Knight of the order of the French Legion of Honour (1996)
Occupation :
Assistant, then assistant professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure (1969-1980)
Full-time professor at Ecole Polytechnique since 1980 ("maître de conférences" 1980-1992, then "professeur" since 1992. First woman to have ever reached the top professor position at Ecole Polytechnique
French representative in the European Technology Assessment Network Group of the Directorate General Research of the European Union on Women and Science ; co-author of the report 'Science policies in the European Union : Promoting excellence through mainstreaming gender equality' (issued November1999)
Since October 1999, French representative in the 'Helsinski group'' of Women and science civil servants at Directorate G Research of European Union
Lectures at graduate level in Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Physics ; at graduate and research levels in Solid State Physics
Coauthor with B. Sapoval of the book "Physics of semiconductors", Springer, New York, 1995
Research at Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Ecole Polytechnique, in the field of Optical Properties of Solids, in particular optical pumping of semiconductors, Negative Electron Affinity photoemission, near-field microscopy and magnetooptics
Author of 75 refered publications
Editor at Journal de Physique, Paris (1990-1997)
Activities of promotion and popularization of science :
- Representative of Ecole Polytechnique in the organization and selection commitees of the International Festival fo the Scientific Film of Palaiseau, France, (1994-2000)
- Conferences for the promotion of scientific studies for girls and on the situation of women physicists in France and other Western Europe countries.
- Cofounder and present president of the French association Femmes et Sciences (Women and Science)
Born on December 19th 1945, in Paris French citizen, married, 3 children
Mise à Jour : oct 2002
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