Isabelle Baraffe

Isabelle Baraffe is a French physicist who is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Exeter. Her research involves the development of new astrophysical models to understand low mass stars and exoplanets. She was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2010 and delivered the 2023 European Astronomical Society Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture.

Early life and education Baraffe was born in France. She completed her master's degree in physics at the Paris Diderot University. She remained there for her doctoral research, studying jointly at the University of Göttingen. Her research considered the evolution of non-metallic stars. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the University of Göttingen. 2004 Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam Johann WEMPE Prize 2005 Gauss-Professorship 2018 Elected to the Science and Technology Facilities Council Council 2020 Viktor Ambartsumian International Science Prize 2023 European Astronomical Society Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture 2024 Institute of Physics Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize

Selected publications