Marie-Louise Saboungi

Marie-Louise Saboungi is a Lebanese-born American condensed matter physicist at the Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

Early life and education[edit]

Saboungi was born January 1, 1948, in Lebanon. She studied Mathematics and Physics at the Lebanese University in Beirut and obtained a Doctorat d’Etat in Physics at Aix-Marseille University, France in 1973, studying the statistical thermodynamics of molten salts.^[1]

Career[edit]

After her doctorate, Saboungi joined Argonne National Laboratory and worked there as Senior Scientist until 2002. Following this she was a director at the Centre de Recherche sur la Matière Divisée, CNRS until 2011.^[2] From 2007 to 2011 she was also Program Officer at Agence Nationale de la Recherche.^[1]

In 2011 she joined IMPMC at Sorbonne University, where she currently works.^[1]

She has also been a Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of Orléans in 2002–2011, and was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor in Soochow University in 2014.^[3]

Research[edit]

Saboungi's work focuses on complex soft materials, including ionic liquids and aqueous electrolytes, with a view to applications in energy and biotechnology.  She also studies silver chalcogenides, which display many fascinating phenomena including fast-ion conduction at higher temperatures, linear magnetoresistance over a broad range of magnetic fields, and topological insulator behavior.

Awards and honours[edit]

• 1990 – Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science^[4]
• 1991 – Award for Leadership in the Professions, YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago
• 1992 – Fellow of the American Physical Society^[5]
• 2000, 2014 – Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• 2007 – Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation^[6]
• 2014 – Doctor Honoris Causa, University of the Andes, Mérida, Venezuela

Selected publications[edit]

• Large magnetoresistance in non-magnetic silver chalcogenides, Nature 390, 57–60 (1997), doi:10.1038/36306
• Electron distribution in water, J. Chem. Phys. 112, 9206 (2000), doi:10.1063/1.481541
• Improving reinforcement of natural rubber by networking of activated carbon nanotubes, Carbon, 46, 7, June 2008, 1037–1045, doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2008.03.011
• The Structure of Aqueous Guanidinium Chloride Solutions, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 37, 11462–11470, doi:10.1021/ja040034x

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Marie-Louise Saboungi publications indexed by Google Scholar
• List of patents