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A portrait of Daniel Bonn, a physicist at the Laboratoire de physique statistique of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Statistical physics uses mathematical methods based on statistics, and its models can be applied to very different fields. So, for example, he seeks to explain the phenomena of quicksands and landslides on the basis of laboratory experiments. He studies the phenomenon of water's adhesion to the leaves on trees. Lastly, Bonn seeks to understand certain kinds of noise so as…

A portrait of Claire Waelbroeck, a paleoclimatologist at the Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement (LSCE) in Gif-sur-Yvette. This young researcher, of Belgian origin, winner of the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2003, describes her scientific work. She studies past climate variation through the analysis of marine sediment and polar ice. Her research aims at reconstructing natural climate variability in order to understand the current climate more fully.

Portrait of Cécile Robillard, a researcher at the LCAR (Collisions, Aggregates and Reactivity Laboratory) in Toulouse. This young researcher evokes her career and her participation with her team to the BMV project (Vacuum Magnetic Birefringence).

Bertrand Nogarède, the director of the CNRS laboratory for electrodynamics of Toulouse, paints his owned portrait through an interview.

Portrait of Nabila Aghanim, a cosmologist at the Institute for Spatial Astrophycics located in Orsay, who received the CNRS Bronze medal in 2005. She is a specialist in interpretation of fossil radiation, relic of the Big Bang.

Portrait of Sven Saupe, a geneticist and senior researcher at the Institute for biochemistry and cellular genetics, based in Bordeaux (France). He received the CNRS Bronze medal in 2004 for his researches on the prion which infects the podospora anserina, a small mushroom.

In Paris and Marseille, Boris Pétric teaches at the “School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences” (EHESS). His researches focus on the questions of power. To him, this problem is essential to understand our society: why do some exercise it and why do some undergo?