Nabila Aghanim

Nabila Aghanim is an Algerian observational cosmologist whose research concerns the interpretation of the cosmic microwave background and the light it sheds on galaxy formation and evolution,[1] and the structure of galaxy filaments and the warm–hot intergalactic medium.

[3][4] Her 1996 dissertation, Contribution a l'etude des anisotropies secondaires du fond de rayonnement cosmologique, was directed by Jean-Loup Puget.

[5] Aghanim's postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley was cut short after six months by difficulty obtaining a visa to stay in the US for longer, because of the Algerian Civil War.

[3] In 2016, she was named as the director of the Observatoire des sciences de l'univers [fr] of the University of Paris-Saclay.

[1][4] She was the 2022 winner of the Huy Duong Bui grand prize [fr] of the French Academy of Sciences.