Aurélien Barrau
Aurélien Barrau (born 19 May 1973, in
He was awarded the 2006
He has written more than 100 refereed research articles. After working on gamma-ray astrophysics and large-field surveys (
He is involved in scientific popularization, collaborates with artists (Olafur Eliasson, Michelangelo Pistoletto) and film makers (Claire Denis). He is a member of the editorial board of literature and poetry journals (Hors-Sol, Diacritik).
He is also PhD in philosophy from Paris-Sorbonne University and has written books and articles with the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. He worked on metaphysical questions about truth and multiplicity. He has published 2 poetry books.
In 2019, with the actress Juliette Binoche, he launched a call to fight the ecological crisis. The text was signed by many scientists, together with artists like Patti Smith or Wim Wenders. In 2020, he wrote a second international tribune, signed by 20 Nobel Prize winners and many stars, explicitly saying that we are facing a systemic problem. The text also says that "the pursuit of consumerism and an obsession with productivity have led us to deny the value of life itself".
Books (in French)
- Forme et Origine de l'Univers, Paris, Dunod, 2010
- Multivers, Paris, La Ville Brûle, 2010
- Relativité Générale, Paris, Dunod, 2011 (with J. Grain)
- Dans quels mondes vivons nous ?, Paris, Galilée, 2011 (with J.-L. Nancy)
- Variations sur un même ciel, Paris, La Ville Brûle, 2010 (J.-P. Uzan et al.)
- Big Bang et au-delà, Paris, Dunod, 2012
- Des univers multiples, Paris, Dunod, 2014
- De la vérité dans les sciences, Paris, Dunod, 2015
- Au coeur des trous noirs, Paris, Dunod, 2017
- L'Animal est-il un homme comme les autres, Paris, Dunod, 2018
- Le plus grand défi de l'histoire de l'humanité, Paris, Dunod, 2018
- Météorites, Paris, Dunod, 2020
- Il faut une révolution politique, poétique et philosophique, Paris, Zulma, 2021
- Anomalies cosmiques, Paris, Dunod, 2022
Books (in English)
- What's These Worlds Coming To?, with J.-L. Nancy, Fordham University Press, 2014