Raphaèle Herbin is a French applied mathematician; she is known for her work on the finite volume method.
Herbin has been a professor at Aix-Marseille University since 1995, and directs the Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille.
[1] She earned her doctorate in 1986 at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, with the dissertation Approximation numérique d'inéquations variationnelles non linéaires par des méthodes de continuation supervised by Francis Conrad.
[2] Herbin is a co-author of the books Mesure, intégration, probabilités (Ellipses, 2013)[3] and The gradient discretisation method (Springer, 2018).
[4] In 2017 the CNRS gave Herbin their CNRS medal of innovation.