Hélène Perrin

Hélène Perrin (born 1972) is a French physicist working on quantum gas at Laser Physics Laboratory of Université Sorbonne Paris Nord and CNRS, where she is a research director and leads the Bose-Einstein Condensate group.

She is head of the QuanTiP network, gathering all the actors on quantum technologies in Paris region.

Education and career Hélène Perrin studied physics and engineering at the École Polytechnique after studying at Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and pursued a master's degree in quantum physics at École Normale Superieure, before pursuing a PhD under the supervision of Christophe Salomon within Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's group on the topic of ultracold atoms, which she completed in 1998. She then joined the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission as a postdoctoral fellow before becoming a CNRS staff scientist in 1999.