Nabila Aghanim is an Algerian observational cosmologist whose research concerns the interpretation of the cosmic microwave background and the light it sheds on galaxy formation and evolution,[1] and the structure of galaxy filaments and the warm–hot intergalactic medium.[2] She works in France as a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), associated with the Institut d'astrophysique spatiale at the University of Paris-Saclay.

Education and career

Aghanim is originally from Algiers. After completing a Diplôme d'études supérieures in Algeria,[3] at the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene,[4] she traveled to France for doctoral research in astrophysics at Paris Diderot University.[3][4] Her 1996 dissertation, Contribution a l'etude des anisotropies secondaires du fond de rayonnement cosmologique, was directed by Jean-Loup Puget.[5]

Aghanim's postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley was cut short after six months by difficulty obtaining a visa to stay in the US for longer, because of the Algerian Civil War. Instead, after continuing her research at the National Centre for Space Studies in France,[3] she became a CNRS researcher in 1999.[3][4] She was promoted to director of research in 2010.[3] In 2016, she was named as the director of the Observatoire des sciences de l'univers of the University of Paris-Saclay.[6]

Recognition

Aghanim received the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2005,[4] and the CNRS Silver Medal in 2017.[1][4] She was the 2022 winner of the Huy Duong Bui grand prize of the French Academy of Sciences.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Nabila Aghanim, Médaille d’Argent du CNRS (in French), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale, 7 February 2017, retrieved 2023-02-25
  2. ↑ Lost and found in the largest structures of the universe, European Research Council, 25 July 2019, retrieved 2023-02-25
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Arbane, Omar (7 January 2021), "Elle a percé le mystère de la matière cachée : Naïma Aghanim, la savante qui traque l'invisible", El Watan (in French), archived from the original on 2021-01-07
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Nabila Aghanim", ESSC Members, European Space Sciences Committee, retrieved 2023-02-25
  5. ↑ "Nabila Aghanim", Theses.fr (in French), retrieved 2023-02-25
  6. ↑ "Arrêté du 14 décembre 2016 portant nomination de la directrice de l'Observatoire des sciences de l'Univers de l'université Paris-Sud", Journal officiel de la République française (in French), 8 January 2017, retrieved 2023-02-25
  7. ↑ Lauréate 2022 du grand prix Huy Duong Bui : Nabila AGHANIM (in French), French Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2023-02-25
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