COMBES Françoise
Expertise
Discover the specialized technical skills and disciplinary affiliations of our members, who represent the federated communities of the Arts & Humanities, Science & Engineering, and Medicine within the Sorbonne University Alliance.
Activities
Overview the professional milestones, academic responsibilities, and international collaborations that drive our center’s double ambition to excel in both research and education.
Awards
L'Oreal-Unesco Prize for Women in Science 2021
CNRS Gold Medal (2020)
Commander of the National Order of Merit (2019)
Janssen Award of the Astronomical Society of France (2017)
Officer of the Legion of Honour (2015)
ERC Advanced Grant (2010)
Selected publications
- Combes, F., Gupta, N., Jozsa, G.I.G., Momjian, E.: 2019, Discovery of CO absorption at z=0.05 in G0248+430, Astron. Astrophys. 623, A133
- Combes, F., Garcia-Burillo, S., Audibert, A., Hunt, L., Eckart, A., Aalto, S., Casasola, V., Boone, F., Krips, M., Viti, S., Sakamoto, K., Muller, S., Dasyra, K., van der Werf, P., Martin, S.: 2019, ALMA observations of molecular tori around massive black holes, Astron. Astrophys., 623, A79
- Freundlich, J., Combes, F., Tacconi, L. J., Genzel, R., Garcia-Burillo et al.: 2019, PHIBSS2: survey design and z=0.5-0.8 results. Molecular gas reservoirs during the winding-down of star formation, Astron. Astrophys. 622, A105
- Tremblay, G. R., Combes, F., Oonk, J. B. R., Russell, H. R., et al.: 2018, A Galaxy-Scale Fountain of Cold Molecular Gas Pumped by a Black Hole, Astrophys. J., 865, 13
- Combes, F., 2018, Molecular gas in distant galaxies from ALMA studies, Astron. and Astrophys. Rev., 26, 5
International collaborations
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (India), National Radio Astronomy Observatory (USA), Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics (Germany), National Astronomical Observatory (Spain), Center for Astrophysics | Harvard Cambridge (USA)