The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has honoured Prof. Marianne Lemoine-Goumard from the Universite de Bordeaux with the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award 2023. This award is presented to internationally recognized scientists from abroad and honours the outstanding scientific achievements of these promising research personalities to date. It is associated with a stay abroad at a German research institution. Lemoine-Goumard will spend her stay in Jim Hinton's Department of Non-Thermal Astrophysics at the MPI für Kernphysik from July 2024.
Marianne Lemoine-Goumard is research director in the Astroparticles group of the Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG, CNRS / University of Bordeaux). She is a specialist in high-energy astrophysics and is particularly interested in the most violent phenomena in the Universe, including supernova remnants, pulsars and their nebulae, and their role in the acceleration process of cosmic rays.
After studying at the École Centrale de Lille and Paris, she completed a thesis at the Leprince-Ringuet Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique. For her thesis, defended in 2006, Marianne Lemoine-Goumard was awarded the Thesis Prize of the Ecole Polytechnique, as well as the Daniel Guinier Prize of the French Physical Society. She then joined the CENBG the same year, where she continued her research on cosmic rays from the H.E.S.S. experiment, but also with data from the Fermi satellite.
At the MPIK, she will continue her work on extended gamma-ray sources and on shaping future instruments and observations in the field.
