Françoise Combes

Françoise Combes is a professor at Collège de France, chair of “Galaxies and cosmology”, and vice-president of the Academy of Sciences. She works at the Paris Observatory on the formation and evolution of galaxies, their dynamics and their co-evolution with supermassive black holes, as well as on models of dark matter. She has received several awards, including the CNRS Gold Medal (2020), the international L’Oreal-Unesco award for Women in Science (2021) or the Lise Meitner Prize from Göteborg (Sweden, 2017). She was elected member of the French Science Academy in 2004, and the European Academy in 2009.