Légion d’Honneur members), then at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (1967–1969) and at the Université Paris-Sud 11 (1970–1972). There she obtained a honors degree in physical chemistry (1968), a Ph.D (1969) and a D.Sc. (thèse du doctorat d’Etat) (1977). She became a demonstrator (1969–1974), assistant lecturer (1974–1983), associate professor (1983–1990), full professor (1990–1997), and finally distinguished professor (since 1997). She was director, between 1996 and 2000, of the Structure and Reactivity of Interfaces Laboratory (SRI), a Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) joint unit. Since 2004, she has been a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology at Atlanta. In 2000, she created the Laboratoire des Matériaux Mésoscopiques et Nanométriques (LM2N) (Mesoscopic and Nanometric Materials Laboratory). Along with her research work, she became administrator (2004–2010) of the Institut Universitaire de France IUF (as stated above). Moreover, she was Auditor (1987–88) of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale, Auditor (1989) of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Européenne (European Defense Advanced Studies Institute) and Auditor (1990–91) of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Sécurité Intérieure (Internal Security Advanced Studies Institute) (IHESI now INHESJ). Scientific honors and awards 2000: Langmuir Prize of the American Chemical Society. 2001: French citation laureate, Institute for Scientific Information. Award for most cited French scientist between 1981 and 1998. 2001: Lecture Award of Chemical Society of Japan, Division of Colloids and Surface Science. 2002: Doctorate honoris causa of the Chalmers University of Technology. 2003: Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize, Germany. Since 2003: Member of the European Academy of Sciences. 2004: Descartes-Huygens Prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2004: Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. 2005: Blaise Pascal Medal of the European Academy of Science. 2006: Lecture for Marie Curie 100 years anniversary. 2006: Emilia Valori Prize of the French Academy of Sciences. Since 2009: Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom. Since 2010: Member of the Academia Europaea. 2011: Member of AcademiaNet. 2011: Research Grants from the European Research Council. 2011: Catalán-Sabatier Lectureship award from the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry 2012: Foreign member of The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg. 2014: Journal Colloid Interface Science, JCIS, Life Achievement Award. 2015: Honorary Holmberg Lecture Chalmers University of Technology 2016: Pierre Süe award, from the French Chemical Society 2017: Franco-American Lectureship prize from the