Jean Dalibard is a physicist specializing in matter-radiation interactions and, more specifically, in the manipulation of atoms using lasers. After studying at the École normale supérieure (1977–1981), he completed his doctoral degree under the supervision of Claude Cohen-Tannoudji from 1982 to 1986. He was a researcher at the CNRS until 2012, when he was elected to the Collège de France. He also served as a professor at the École Polytechnique from 1989 to 2015.
Jean Dalibard leads the “Bose-Einstein Condensates” team at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory. This team comprises about twenty researchers, faculty members, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows. It conducts research focused on the study of ultracold matter at the Collège de France’s Marcelin-Berthelot Site.
Jean Dalibard has been a visiting researcher at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (United States) and the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), and he has taught at several universities abroad. He is a member of several learned societies, including the French Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences (United States). He received the CNRS Gold Medal in 2021 for his lifetime achievements.
