Chrystele Sanloup is a professor at Sorbonne University (Paris, France). Trained as an Earth scientist at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), she obtained her PhD at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon, and went on as a Carnegie fellow at the Geophysical Lab (Washington D.C.). She joined University Pierre and Marie Curie (former Sorbonne University) as a lecturer in 2001 where she is since based except for two leaves at the university of Edinburgh, as a Marie Curie fellow and later as an ERC grantee at the Center for Science at Extreme Conditions.

Chrystele Sanloup is a mineral physicist. Her main research interests are the chemical and physical properties of planetary materials at depth, and what that tell us about current planetary interiors and planetary formation. Yet she has been regularly working on condensed matter physics issues, with a particular interest in the properties of non-crystalline materials at extreme conditions. Her core research involves high pressure/high temperature experimentation combined with in situ X-ray synchrotron techniques.