Violaine Sautter is a French planetary scientist. Her early work involved the geology at ultradeep levels of the Earth; more recently, her interests have turned to the geology of Mars, particularly concentrating on Martian meteorites and the Gale Crater.[1] She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated with the Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC) at Sorbonne University.[2]

Education and career edit

Sautter earned a Ph.D. in 1983 through the National Museum of Natural History, France (MNHN) and Pierre and Marie Curie University, and completed a Thèse d’Etat in 1989 at Pierre and Marie Curie University.[2] Her 1989 dissertation, Le clinopyroxène alumineux : la mémoire chimique du manteau supérieur lithosphérique, was directed by Olivier Jaoul.[3]

After postdoctoral research in the Grant Institute of Geology at the University of Edinburgh, she joined the CNRS as a junior scientist in 1985, and has been a director of research since 2000.[2]

Book edit

Sautter is coauthor with Hubert Bari of Diamonds: In the Heart of the Earth, in the Heart of Stars, at the Heart of Power, the catalog of a 2001 exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, France, published by Vilo International in 2001.[4]

Recognition edit

Sautter received the CNRS Bronze Medal in 1991,[2] and the CNRS Silver Medal in 2016.[1]

She was the 2002 winner of the Raymond Furon Prize of the Société géologique de France.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Violaine SAUTTER reçoit la médaille d'argent 2016 du CNRS (in French), French National Centre for Scientific Research, retrieved 2023-03-02
  2. ^ a b c d "Violaine Sautter", Research teams, Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie, retrieved 2023-03-02
  3. ^ "Violaine Sautter", Theses.fr, retrieved 2023-03-02
  4. ^ "Diamonds: In the Heart of the Earth, in the Heart of Stars, at the Heart of Power", Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, retrieved 2023-03-02
  5. ^ Prix Raymond FURON (in French), Société géologique de France, retrieved 2023-03-02

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