Muriel Gargaud
CNRS Research Director - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, UMR 5804, Université Bordeaux 1
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Muriel Gargaud

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Muriel Gargaud
CNRS Research Director
Tel : 33 (0)5 40 00 24 32
Mobile : 33 (0) 670 670 622
E-mail : muriel.gargaud@u-bordeaux.fr


Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux
Université de Bordeaux - Bât. B18N
Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
CS 50023
33615 PESSAC CEDEX
France

Carreer & Research field

Carreer

1981: PhD in Atomic Physics, Université Bordeaux1

1982-2011: Chargée de Recherche CNRS

2011-...: Directrice de Recherche CNRS

Research field

1999-2013 : Origin and evolution of life on Earth and life in Universe

1982-2002 : Ion-atom and ion-molecule collisions in the interstellar medium. Quantum mechanics calculation of inelastic cross-sections and associated reaction rates.

Peer-reviewed papers (42) and books (11)

Education and training

42 peer-reviewed papers, mostly in atomic physics

1 Encyclopedia of Astrobiology
M.Gargaud, Chief Editor (Springer 2015, 350 authors, 2700 pages)

2 Bachelor/Master books
Currently being translated into Japanese (Nishimura Co. Ldt) and Chinese (Gingko Beijing Book)
      - Le Soleil, la Terre…la vie , Belin, 2009
      M .Gargaud, H.Martin, P.Lopez-Garcia, Th.Montmerle, R.Pascal
      - Young Sun, early Earth… and the origins of life (Springer, 2012)
      M .Gargaud, H.Martin, P.Lopez-Garcia, Th.Montmerle, R.Pascal

7 Lecture books
      - 3 in french (Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux):
            L'environnement de la Terre primitive (2001, 2005)
            Les traces du vivant (2003)
            Des atomes aux planètes habitables (2005)


      - 3 in english :
            Lectures in astrobiology, Vol.1 (2005), Springer
            Lectures in astrobiology Vol.2 (2006)
, Springer
           Origins and evolution of life : an astrobiological perspective (2010), Cambridge University Press 

      - 1 en french
            L'évolution : de l'Univers aux Sociétés (2015) , Editions Matériologiques

2 special reviews
      - From suns to life : a chronological approach to the
      history of life on Earth
, Earth, Moon and Planets (2006)
      + Springer (2006)
      - Traces of past or present life : biosignatures and potential
      life indicators
, Palevol (2009)

 

 

 

 

5 astrobiology summer schools organised for researchers every 2 years, between 1999 and 2007:

Exobio'99 - Exobio'01 - Exobio'03 - Exobio'05 - Exobio'07

11 astrobiology winter schools organized every year for PhD students since 2007: 

RED'07 - RED'08 - RED'09 - RED'10 - RED'11 - RED'12
RED'13 - RED'15 - RED'16 - RED'17

> 1 mini international astrobiology school in Vietnam for doctoral students and young researchers

5 workshops organised since 2004 on different astrobiological questions/themes:
      - Chronology of the emergence of life on Earth
      - Biosignatures and clues of life
      - Early Earth environment
      - Evolution : froms stars to life
      - Teaching astrobiology

National and international responsabilities

President of the Société Française d'Exobiologie since 2012

Chair of the European COST Action « Origins of life on Earth and life in the Universe », 2014-2018

Co-chair oh the European Astrobiology Campus 2014-2017

Chair of the IAU WG "Education and Training in astrobiology"

Co-Chief Editor of the 3rd Edition of Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (2017-2021)

Member of EANA, Astrobiology commission C.F3 de l'IAU and ISSOL Executive Committee

CNU : membre section 34, 2009-2021

› International conference
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Co-chair of ORIGINS 2011, the first international conference
- Co-chair of the international conference « Search for life: from early Earth to Exoplanets », Quy Nonh, Vietnam, December 2016
- Co-chair of the « International Symposium on Education in Astronomy and Astrobiology », Utrecht, July 2017