Isabelle Baraffe receives the Academy of Sciences' Prize in Space Sciences
Isabelle Baraffe, a research director at the CNRS within the CRAL, currently on secondment at the University of Exeter, has been awarded the Sciences de l’Univers Medal by the French Academy of Sciences.
Her work focuses on the structure and evolution of stars and planets, covering a wide range of physical fields, with notable contributions to the study of exoplanets, brown dwarfs, and low-mass stars. She is currently developing innovative and promising stellar and planetary models, including implicit numerical methods to model and understand the role of convection in stars.
