Dr. Audrey Cottet : short CV                      back to menu

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 Present position

 

Permanent CNRS researcher since 10/2008, promoted Research Director in 10/2019

 

I have obtained my Habilitation for Research Direction (HDR) in May 2017

 

Past employment

 

09/2021 - 01/2023: Member of the National Evaluation Committee of CNRS (CN section 3)

 

09/2017 - 09/2020: Associate Editor of npj Quantum Information (Nature publishing group)

 

10/2005 - 09/2008:  Post-doctoral researcher in Paris, France (LPS/Orsay, LPTHE/University Paris VI)

 

11/2002 - 09/2005:  Post-doc in the Condensed Matter Theory Group, Univ. of Basel, Switzerland

 

10/1999 - 10/2002:  PhD in the Quantronics group (CEA-Saclay, France)

 

 Main achievements in Physics

 

I have performed an experimental PhD on superconducting quantum bits (Saclay, France, 1999-2002). This work led to the first superconducting quantum bit prototype with a lifetime of the order of a microsecond [Science 296, 886 (2002)]. After my thesis, I became a theorist of hybrid mesoscopic electronic circuits. I was a post-doc in Basel, Switzerland (2002-2005), and then Paris (2005-2008), working on spin dependent transport in quantum dots as well as superconducting and ferromagnetic proximity effects in hybrid diffusive structures. Highlights from this period include the discovery of a spin transistor effect in carbon nanotubes [Nature Phys. 1, 99 (2005)], a prediction of positive current cross-correlations in quantum dot circuits [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 206801 (2004) / Phys. Rev. B 70, 115315 (2004)], which was realized experimentally in 2007 in the group of C. Marcus (in Harvard at that time), and the development of spin-dependent boundary conditions for quasi-classical superconductivity [Phys. Rev. B 72, 180503(R) (2005) / Phys. Rev. B 80, 184511 (2009)]. Since my arrival at the Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain of ENS-Paris, I have mainly focused on the development of Mesoscopic Quantum Electrodynamics (or Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with hybrid nanocircuits), in close collaboration with the experimental "Hybrid Quantum Circuits" team of Takis Kontos. The results of this collaboration include the observation of a coherent spin/photon coupling at the single spin level [Science 349, 6246 (2015)], photon-emission by a quantum dot/superconductor junction [Phys. Rev. X, 6, 021014 (2016)] and the freezing of the charge dynamics in a Kondo impurity [Nature 545, 71 (2017)]. More recently, I have started working on the superconducting proximity effect in Weyl semimetals and the quantum detection of Dark Matter.

 

    A secondary activity in Archaeomusicology

 

I also have a secondary research activity on the history of concussion idiophones from antiquity

to today. I am carrying out this project in parallel with my research in Physics. Such a wide range of research themes is possible thanks to the multidisciplinary character of my employer the CNRS. For more details see here.

 

                   					View Vol. 9 (2022): CLARA: Classical Art and Archaeology

 

Covers of the peer-reviewed journals Early Music and CLARA (Classical Art and Archaeology)

featuring illustrations of my two recent articles on cymbals playing in the Roman Empire

 

 

Various Links

 

Interview in the podcast [DECODE Quantum] by Fanny Bouton et Olivier Ezratty (in french, 14/12/2023)

 

Google scholar

 

Web of Science

 

Orcid