Christine Joblin is a French astrochemist who uses spectroscopy to study photodissociation and the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in cosmic dust.
[1][2] Beyond her experimental and observational work, she also contributed to the first clear finding of buckminsterfullerene in a meteorite, a ureilite that exploded over the Nubian Desert in late 2008.
[4] In an effort to bring her research to a wider audience, Joblin co-created an English-language comic book and webcomic, Estrella, with visual artist Lorenzo Palloni.
[6] Its plot features a young girl who (as in the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage) is shrunk to nanoscopic scale to learn about the creation of cosmic dust in dying stars.
[7] Joblin won the 2001 young scientist prize of the Société Française d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique,[8] and received the CNRS Silver Medal for 2015.