Isabelle Baraffe is the Chair of Astrophysics.  She joined the University of Exeter in 2010.  Prior to her appointment at Exeter University she had the following roles: Professor of Astrophysics, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), France, Associate professor, Ecole Normale Superieure, Physics department, Lyon, France, Postdoc position, University of Gottingen, Sternwarte, Germany, Postdoc position, Max-Planck Institut fur Astrophysik, Garching, Germany. Her field of research is stellar and planetary physics and evolution - Stellar hydrodynamics - Exoplanets - Planetary atmospheric dynamics.  She has been awarded several prizes and distinctions: two Advanced European Research Council (ERC) grants in 2012 and 2018; Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2010; Gauss-Professorship from Goettingen Academy of Sciences in 2005; Johann WEMPE prize of the Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam in 2004; Bronze medal from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) 1999. She gave the Biermann lectures at the Max-Planck Institut for Astrophysics in Garching in 2015.

Links with other universities

Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France

Nationality 

French

Administrative responsibilities 

Academic Lead of the Astrophysics group in Exeter

Qualificiations 

1986-1990: PhD in Astrophysics, University of Paris VII and University of Gottingen 

1982-1986: Msc in Physics, University of Paris VII (Jussieu)