Franoise Combes (a French astrophysicist at the Paris Observatory) has research works about galaxy formation and evolution; including galaxy dynamics, their spiral and barred structures, and interactions between galaxies, studied both through multi-wavelength observations and by numerical simulations.
Francoise Combes (French pronunciation: [fswaz kb (listen); born 12 August 1952) is a French astrophysicist at the Paris Observatory and a professor at the College de France where she has been the chair of Galaxies and cosmology since 2014. Her research works are about galaxy formation and evolution, in a cosmological context. This work includes: galaxy dynamics, their spiral and barred structures, and interactions between galaxies, studied both through multi-wavelength observations and by numerical simulations. 
