Patricia Bassereau

Patricia Bassereau is CNRS Research Director at the Institut Curie in Paris where she is the leader of the group "Membranes and cellular functions". She obtained a PhD in Soft Matter at the University of Montpellier where she started her carrier on the structure of self-assembled surfactant-based systems. After a year as a visiting scientist at the IBM Almaden Center (San Jose, USA), she moved to the Institut Curie in 1993 to work on questions related to "Physics of the cell". In 2015 she received the Suffrage Science Award (Royal Society, Medical Research Council and L’Oréal), in 2017 the Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics (European Physical Society, she is Fellow of the Biophysical Society since 2018 and Elected EMBO Member since 2020.