Claude Fabre

Claude Fabre (born April 23, 1951) is a French physicist, professor emeritus at the Sorbonne University and member of the Kastler-Brossel Laboratory of Sorbonne University, École normale supérieure and Collège de France.

Career

From 1970 to 1974 Claude Fabre studied at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and University Paris 6. In 1974, he obtained the agrégation in physics and completed his MSc studies with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji as supervisor. In that same year, he obtained a position at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), working under the supervision of Serge Haroche at the "Laboratoire de spectroscopie hertzienne de l'ENS", later renamed as Kastler-Brossel Laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in 1980.

In 1984–1985, he was a visiting scientist at the IBM Laboratory, San Jose California. He became CNRS Director of Research from 1986 to 1998, and part time associate professor at the École polytechnique. In 1998, he left CNRS to become Professor at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, now integrated in Sorbonne University.

Fabre was director of the Doctoral School of Physics in Paris area from 2001 to 2007, and editor in chief of the European Physical Journal D from 2008 to 2012. In 2009, he was a visiting researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, then invited professor at the East China Normal University, Shanghai.