Jean-Pierre Luminet

About Jean-Pierre Luminet

Jean-Pierre Luminet is an astrophysicist at the Paris-Meudon Observatory, writer, and international speaker. Research Director at C.N.R.S., his scientific work on black holes and cosmology has earned him worldwide recognition. He notably made headlines in scientific journals around the world for his new theory of a finite and ‘wrinkled’ universe.

A member of several academies and learned societies, he has received numerous awards, including the European Prize for Scientific Communication 2007. The small planet No. 5523, discovered at Mount Palomar in 1991, bears his name in tribute to his work.

He is also an Officer of Arts and Letters. In addition to his activities as a renowned scientist, he engages in those of an author, alternating between poet, essayist, novelist, and screenwriter, in a multifaceted body of work where science, history, music, and art are intertwined. He has published about fifteen essays, six novels, and seven collections of poetry, translated into a dozen languages, as well as CDs, DVDs, and documentaries for television.

He gives around 50 lectures a year, in France and abroad, in French or English, for all types of audiences: students and academics, the general public, executives, and business leaders. He places particular importance on training executives in companies and collaborates to give presentations on recent developments in astrophysics, relativity, and cosmology, as well as on the relationships between Art and Science, in front of leaders (Peugeot, Thomson, EDF, Vivendi, etc.).

The goal is to prepare for the evolutions of tomorrow’s business by introducing new concepts and paradigm shifts proposed by modern science to leaders, to disseminate a humanistic vision of science, and to promote the consideration of new ideas in economic sectors.

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