Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue has been awarded the Irène Joliot-Curie 2019 Prize in the Female Scientist of the Year category. Congratulations to Françoise for this acclaimed recognition of her work!

A Doctor of Physics and specialist in the automation of non-linear systems, Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue’s research work in the field of automation is what earned her this prize. Her work has important applications in the field of electricity production and distribution.

The Irène Joliot-Curie Prize was created in 2001 and aims to promote women’s place in research and technology in France. It is awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, and by Airbus.

At SuperGrid Institute, Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue is a member of the Supergrid Architecture & Systems programme committee. She also supervised Juan-Carlos GONZALEZ’s thesis on “Transient stability of high voltage AC-DC electric transmission systems”.