Hélène Perrin is a CNRS Research Director, working at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. She heads the BEC group at Laboratoire de physique des lasers, of which she is the deputy director. 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 1000 researchers within Paris area.