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.

Education and career
Hélène Perrin studied physics and engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique after studying at Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and pursued a master's degree in quantum physics at Ecole Normale Superieure, before pursuing a doctorate 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.