Annick Loiseau

Annick Loiseau (born 1957) is a French physicist who is a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research Laboratory of Microstructure Studies and Mechanics of Materials. She was the first woman to be appointed to the French national aerospace laboratory,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 Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) solid-state physics laboratory. She moved to the Paris-Sud University for her doctoral studies.

Research and career Loiseau joined the faculty at ONERA, where she worked on high-resolution electron microscopy, which she developed to study metal alloys. In 1992 she became interested in carbon nanotubes, 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.

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 2011 Legion of Honour

Selected publications

Journal articles

Books