Christine Darve is a French engineering scientist and accelerator physicist specializing in superconducting components of high-energy physics experiments. She works in Sweden as a senior engineering scientist at the European Spallation Source in Lund.
Education and career Darve was a student at the Lycée Vaucanson in Grenoble, and then at the Institut polytechnique de Sevenans in northeastern France, where she received an engineering degree in 1996. Her work as a student there focused on thermomechanical analysis, and included terms as a visiting student at the physics research institutes of CEA Paris-Saclay and CERN. Much later in her career, she returned to graduate school for a Ph.D. in fluid dynamics at Northwestern University in the United States. Her 2011 doctoral dissertation, Phenomenological and Numerical Studies of Superfluid Helium Dynamics in the Two-Fluid Model, was jointly supervised by Neelesh A. Patankar and Steven Van Sciver.
After a visiting position at CERN beginning in 1995, she became an engineering scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois from 1999 to 2011. In 2011, she moved to her present position as a senior engineering scientist at the European Spallation Source.
International outreach In 2009, Darve became a cofounder and organizer of the African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications. She chairs the Outreach & Communication Committee of the American Physical Society (APS) Forum on International Physics, and the IUPAP Working Group on Particle Accelerators for Science and Society.
Recognition Darve was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, after a nomination from the APS Forum on International Physics, "for sustained contribution to specification, design, construction, and operation of critical components of superconducting linear accelerators, and for leadership in expanding the reach of physics and educational outreach and dissemination of knowledge generated through large scale science facilities around the world".
References ; as linked from Darve's home page
External links Home page at CERN