[3] She has worked in quantitative fractography, establishing some universal fractal properties of fracture surfaces,[4] a subject pioneered by Benoit Mandelbrot.

[5] In fact, the term "fractal" itself was coined by Mandelbrot in 1975, based on the Latin frāctus meaning "broken" or "fractured".

Elisabeth Bouchaud suggested that these fractal properties could be understood in terms of the propagation of the crack front in a disordered environment, which is affected by the vicinity of a depinning transition.

Her other plays are Les liaisons dangereuses (1989), Musical Box (1996), De la matière dont les rèves sont faits (2005) and Puzzle (2015), a stage adaptation of Puzzle of a Downfall Child by Jerry Schatzberg, put on at the theatre La Reine Blanche in 2017.

In 2024, she wrote a theatre trilogy Les Fabuleuses about the life of 3 women that made breakthroughs in physicts, but were not remembered through history as male physists took the credit and the prizes: (Lise Meitner, Jocelyn Bell, Rosalind Franklin).