Annick Gabrielle Pouquet was born on 24 December 1946 and is a computational plasma physicist specializing in plasma turbulence.
10 Facts About Annick Pouquet
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Annick Pouquet was awarded the 2020 Hannes Alfven Prize for "fundamental contributions to quantifying energy transfer in magneto-fluid turbulence".
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Annick Pouquet currently holds positions in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and National Center for Atmospheric Research at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Annick Pouquet then remained at the observatory upon graduation, eventually becoming the director of the observatory's Cassini Laboratory in 1998.
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In 2000, Annick Pouquet joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research at the University of Colorado Boulder as director of the Geophysical Turbulence Program and section head of the Turbulence Numerics Team, where she led efforts to investigate wave-turbulence interactions in the Earth's atmosphere and in space.
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Annick Pouquet founded the Earth and Sun System Laboratory as the first acting director in 2004 and became its deputy director between 2006 and 2009.
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Annick Pouquet retired in 2013 and became an emeritus Senior Scientist at NCAR.
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Annick Pouquet became an adjunct professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics, and a visiting scientist of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Annick Pouquet was inducted as a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2004.
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Annick Pouquet was awarded the Hannes Alfven Prize in 2020.