Sophie Brasselet is an optical physicist, she graduated at Ecole Superieure d’Optique (Institut d’Optique) in Orsay, France in 1994. She has obtained her PhD in 1997 at the University of Paris Sud France, on the study of multipolar molecules applied to nonlinear optics, and spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at UCSD and Stanford University (USA), working on the detection of single molecules in cells. After seven years as an assistant professor in Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France), she is now a CNRS research director at Fresnel Institute in Marseille, France. She has pioneered methods in polarized non-linear optical microscopy and fluorescence imaging, based on the control of light polarization and polarized wavefronts, with achievements in optical structural imaging at nanoscales applied to nanophotonics and super-resolution imaging in biology. She has published more than 150 publications among which recent review papers (Optica 2023, Nature Photonics 2025), and given more than 100 invited conferences. She is a fellow of the Optica society (2023). She has received the silver medal of CNRS (2016), the iXcore research foundation prize (2023) and the Leon Brillouin prize of the Optical French Society (SFO) (2022).
optical imaging for biology, polarization, polarized imaging, fluorescence imaging, nonlinear imaging, super-resolution imaging, nonlinear spectroscopy, imaging in scattering media