{{Short description|French astronomer (born 1958)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Brigitte Zanda | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|07|29}} | fields = Meteoriticist, astrophysicist, cosmochemist | alma_mater = École normale supérieure de jeunes filles, École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, Université Paris-Diderot | thesis_title = Les réactions nucléaires induites par le rayonnement cosmique dans les météorites de fer | thesis_year = 1988 | doctoral_advisor = Jean Audouze }} '''Brigitte Zanda''' (born July 29, 1958) is a French meteoriticist, astrophysicist, and cosmochemist. She is an associate professor at the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) in Paris, affiliated with the Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie. As a teacher-researcher, she specializes in primitive meteorites: chondrites.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brigitte Zanda |url=https://expertes.fr/expertes/70006-brigitte-zanda/ |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=Expertes France |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2015-01-28 |title=Brigitte Zanda, experte en pierres extraterrestres, "source unique d'informations" |url=https://www.la-croix.com/Ethique/Sciences-Ethique/Sciences/Brigitte-Zanda-experte-en-pierres-extraterrestres-source-unique-d-informations-2015-01-28-1273742 |access-date=2024-02-21 |work=La Croix |language=fr-FR |issn=0242-6056}}</ref> In 2019–2020, she served as the vice president of the Meteoritical Society.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Officers and Council |url=https://meteoritical.org/society/leadership/council |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=meteoritical.org |language=en}}</ref> Additionally, she is the co-director of the FRIPON<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-11-09 |title=L'équipe – Vigie-ciel |url=https://www.vigie-ciel.org/lequipe/ |access-date=2024-02-21 |language=fr-FR}}</ref> observation network and the coordinator-manager of the participatory science project Vigie-Ciel.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-06-19 |title=Avec qui ? - FRIPON |url=https://fripon.org/spip.php?rubrique3&lang=fr |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=fripon.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160619072540/https://fripon.org/spip.php?rubrique3&lang=fr |archive-date=2016-06-19 }}</ref>
== Biography == Brigitte Zanda was a student at the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles from 1978 to 1982.<ref>{{Cite web |title=L'annuaire {{!}} a-Ulm |url=https://www.archicubes.ens.fr/lannuaire#annuaire_chercher?identite=Brigitte+Zanda |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=www.archicubes.ens.fr}}</ref> She continued her education at the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris where she was a research fellow from 1982 to 1984. From 1984 to 1989, she worked as a research engineer at the Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, affiliated with the CNRS. She defended her doctoral thesis in fundamental geochemistry, entitled ''Les réactions nucléaires induites par le rayonnement cosmique dans les météorites de fer'', at the University of Paris VII in 1988, under the supervision of Jean Audouze.<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Les réactions nucléaires induites par le rayonnement cosmique dans les météorites de fer |url=https://www.sudoc.abes.fr/cbs/xslt/DB=2.1//SRCH?IKT=12&TRM=043814093&COOKIE=U10178,Klecteurweb,D2.1,E96002800-3ed,I250,B341720009+,SY,QDEF,A%5C9008+1,,J,H2-26,,29,,34,,39,,44,,49-50,,53-78,,80-87,NLECTEUR+PSI,R10.34.103.180,FN |publisher=Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 |date=1988 |place=1970-2019, France |degree=Thèse de doctorat |first=Brigitte |last=Zanda}}</ref> A year later, Brigitte Zanda became an associate professor at the National Museum of Natural History,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie |url=https://impmc.sorbonne-universite.fr//en/research_teams/research-on-carbon-rich-key-samples-rocks/list-of-members/brigitte-zanda.html |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=impmc.sorbonne-universite.fr}}</ref> where she was responsible for the conservation of the national meteorite collection.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Météoritologue – Brigitte Zanda – Service Educatif |url=https://edu.obs-mip.fr/meteoritologue-brigitte-zanda/ |access-date=2024-02-21 |language=fr-FR}}</ref> As part of her professional activities at the Museum, Brigitte Zanda is involved in the dissemination of scientific culture. She also works in the scientific direction of the Astronomy Festival of Fleurance<ref>{{Cite web |title=Festival d'Astronomie de Fleurance |url=https://festival-astronomie.com/presentation/organisateurs |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=festival-astronomie.com}}</ref> and is responsible for the scientific organization of the AstroNomades festival. She also co-pilots the ANR FRIPON project and directs the {{Interlanguage link|Investissements d'avenir|lt=IA|fr}}/{{Interlanguage link|Agence nationale pour la rénovation urbaine|lt=ANRU|fr}} project "Vigie-Ciel".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Iglesis |first=Stéphane |date=2018-08-10 |title=Sciences : deux chercheuses témoignent d'un univers encore bien trop masculin |url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/sciences-deux-chercheuses-temoignent-d-un-univers-encore-bien-trop-masculin-3731170 |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=France Culture |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Vigie-ciel – Vigie-ciel |url=https://www.vigie-ciel.org/ |access-date=2024-02-21 |language=fr-FR}}</ref> == Publications == * ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=urRyoAEACAAJ Le fer de Dieu : histoire de la météorite de Chinguetti]'', with Théodore Monod, Actes Sud, 2008, 152 pages. ISBN 978-2742775521. * ''[https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2011GL047173 Low temperature magnetic transition of chromite in ordinary chondrites]'', J. Gattacceca et al., 2011.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Gattacceca |first1=J. |last2=Rochette |first2=P. |last3=Lagroix |first3=F. |last4=Mathe |first4=P. E. |last5=Zanda |first5=B. |date=2011 |title=Low temperature magnetic transition of chromite in ordinary chondrites |url=https://hal.science/hal-02264220/file/2011GL047173.pdf |journal=Geophysical Research Letters |language=en |volume=38 |issue=10 |pages=L10203 |doi=10.1029/2011GL047173|bibcode=2011GeoRL..3810203G }}</ref> == Honors == * The asteroid discovered by S.J. Bus on March 2, 1981, initially called "1981 EO42",<ref>{{Cite web |title=Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (5001)-(10000) |url=https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/NumberedMPs005001.html |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=www.minorplanetcenter.net}}</ref> was named "(5047) Zanda"<ref>{{Cite web |title=IAU Minor Planet Center |url=https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%E2%9C%93&object_id=zanda |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=www.minorplanetcenter.net}}</ref> in her honor.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Citation for (5047) |url=https://cgi.minorplanetcenter.net/cgi-bin/showcitation.cgi?num=005047 |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=cgi.minorplanetcenter.net}}</ref>
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== See also == * (5047) Zanda
== External links == * [http://www.impmc.upmc.fr/en/research_teams/research-on-carbon-rich-key-samples-rocks/list-of-members/brigitte-zanda.html Official website] * [https://www.canal-u.tv/intervenants/zanda-brigitte-031784399 "Zanda, Brigitte (1958-....) | Canal U"] * [https://www.radiofrance.fr/personnes/brigitte-zanda Brigitte Zanda]. ''Radio France'' * [https://entities.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwRVVPgD3bMTJWhxKM773.html Brigittte Zanda]. ''entities.oclc.org''. {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Zanda, Brigitte}} Category:Living people Category:French astrophysicists Category:French geochemists Category:Cosmologists Category:French science communicators Category:École normale supérieure (Paris) alumni Category:Paris Diderot University alumni Category:Discoverers of asteroids Category:1958 births Category:French women astronomers Category:Mines Paris - PSL alumni