Brchignac Catherine Horoscope

## Brchignac Catherine **Personal Information:** | Field | Details | |---|---| | Name | Brchignac Catherine | | Birthday | Wed Jun 12 1946 00:00:00 GMT+0000 | | Birthplace | Paris, France | **Social Media:** | Platform | Link | |---|---| | Twitter | [Catherine Brchignac](https://twitter.com/cbe07) | | LinkedIn | [Catherine Brchignac](https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-brchignac-46277815/) | **Recent Projects:** * Member of the scientific council of the Paris Observatory (since 2010) * Member of the steering committee of the Planetary Science Division of the European Space Agency (2016-2020) * PI of the OSIRIS instrument on the Rosetta mission (2004-2016) * Co-I of the MIMI instrument on the Cassini mission (1997-2017) **Other Information:** * Director of the Paris Observatory from 2007 to 2011 * President of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the European Astronomical Society (2013-2016) * Member of the French Academy of Sciences (since 2017) * Recipient of the CNRS Gold Medal (2018) * Asteroid 189131 Brchignac is named in her honor **Academic Background:** * PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Paris (1975) * Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from the University of Paris (1984) **Research Interests:** * Planetary science * Comets and asteroids * Solar system exploration * Space missions