Béatrice Chatel is a French physicist and researcher specializing in femtosecond lasers.
Chatel distinguished herself by developing a laser capable of shaping its pulses in an extremely precise way.
Using this tool, researchers can break up molecules in a controlled manner depending on the properties of the laser pulse to which they are subjected.
[1] In addition to her work as a researcher, Chatel was president of the steering committee of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) national network of femtosecond technologies, which seeks to promote exchanges among scientific communities that use these lasers.
She has also worked as a volunteer at a hospital school where she "contrives to distract sick children with her physics lessons.