Hélène Perrin is a CNRS Research Director, working at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. She heads the BEC group at Laboratoire de physique des lasers. Her research is devoted mostly to experimental atomic physics with ultracold atoms, including Bose-Einstein condensation, low dimensional quantum gases and their superfluid dynamics. She also leads the regional network QuanTiP dedicated to quantum technologies, gathering more than 1200 researchers within Paris area.