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Anne-Sophie Libert

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Biography

Anne-Sophie Libert is a professor in the Mathematics Department. She has also been director of naXys (Institut Namurois des Systèmes Complexes) since 2017 and a member of the management committee of the PTCI (Plateforme Technologique de Calcul Intensif) since 2015.

As an FNRS aspirant, she obtained a doctorate in science, with a focus on applied mathematics, at UNamur in 2007. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Thessaloniki (2008), she was awarded a mandate as F.R.S.-FNRS Research Fellow at UNamur, during which she carried out a year of research at the Observatoire de Lille (Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides, 2012). Subsequently a researcher for the PAI ‘Dysco’ and a researcher for the PDR ‘ExtraOrDynHa’ (F.R.S.-FNRS) at the naXys centre in 2013, she has a truly multidisciplinary background in applied mathematics. She became a lecturer at UNamur in 2014.

Her central research theme is the formation and evolution of extrasolar systems, with a focus on exobiology to answer the fundamental question of life in the universe.

Faculties/Departments/Services

Research institutes

Namur Institute for Complex Systems - Membre - Président(e) d'un institut de recherche

Organs

Plateforme technologique Calcul intensif - Porte-parole académique d'une platefome technologique

Domains of expertise

  • Formation, evolution and habitability of extrasolar systems (celestial mechanics, Lagrangian/Hamiltonian formalisms, resonance, n-body problem)
  • Dynamical systems and chaos (differential equations, chaos indicator, frequency analysis)
  • Large graphs and networks (centrality measures, community detection, link prediction, PageRank)

External responsibilities

  • Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) since 2012
  • Member of the College of Alumni (Science Class) of the Royal Academy of Belgium since 2016
  • Member of the BNEC (Belgian National ESO Committee), 2016-2020
  • Visiting professor at the Belgian College in 2011 and 2014 (Royal Academy of Belgium)
  • Scientist associated with the CHEOPS and PLATO missions (ESA)

Degrees

  • Doctorate in Science (FUNDP, 2007)
  • Master's degree in Mathematical Sciences (La plus grande distinction, FUNDP, 2004)

Prizes

  • Agathon de Potter Prize - Astronomy, from the Académie Royale of Belgium (32nd triennium, 2012-2014)
  • 2008 FNRS Post-doctoral Research Fellowship
  • 2004 FNRS Research Fellowship (PhD)

2025-2026

2024-2025

2023-2024

2022-2023

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