Gaia People

Sophie Rousset

Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur

Sophie is a Mechanical Engineer, with a specialization in aeronautic and space testing environment. She worked in the Industry for 10 years before joining CNRS and Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in 2007. As Project Manager, her field of expertise concerned high technology batteries for electric vehicles prototypes and satellites. Her career was shared between France and The United States.

Now Sophie works as assistant to the DPAC chair with local, national and DPAC level responsibilities. For the DPAC, she is in charge of:

• General secretary for the DPAC chair activities,
• Membership monitoring and the associated documentation,
• Preparation, realisation and publication of the DPAC newsletter,
• Contribution to outreach with the Gaia information manager,
• Preparation and organisation of DPAC related meetings.

[Published: 15/09/2008]