# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aurelien-barrau
# Generated: 2026-09-02T04:19:05.264Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aurelien-barrau"
name: "Aurélien Barrau"
slug: "aurelien-barrau"
description: "Aurélien Barrau is a French physicist and philosopher, specialized in astroparticle physics, black holes and cosmology. He is the director of the Grenoble Center for Theoretical Physics, works in the CNRS Laboratory for Subatomic Physics and Cosmology (LPSC), and is a professor at the Joseph Fourier University."
tagline: "French astrophysicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aur%C3%A9lien_Barrau.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1973-05-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.35642629047239
  historical:           5.720898666666667
  currentAttention:     5.044379513754893
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 64
totalFollowers: 292000
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/AurelienBarrau"
    handle:    "AurelienBarrau"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/aurelien.barrau"
    handle:    "aurelien.barrau"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10018684/"
    handle:    "nm10018684"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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    handle:    "@aurelien_barrau"
    followers: 292000
sources:
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    title: "Aurélien Barrau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aur%C3%A9lien_Barrau"
    title: "Aurélien Barrau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aur%C3%A9lien_Barrau"
    title: "Aurélien Barrau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aur%C3%A9lien_Barrau"
    title: "Aurélien Barrau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aur%C3%A9lien_Barrau"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q777500"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4747249"
    title: "Aurélien Barrau"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump