Rate My Professor Camille Bonvin

Camille Bonvin is an associate professor in the Department of Theoretical Physics at the University of Geneva, Faculty of Science. She focuses her research on cosmology, with emphasis on large-scale structure, relativistic effects, dark energy, modified gravity, gravitational waves, and involvement in the Euclid and SKA collaborations. Bonvin earned her PhD in cosmology from the University of Geneva in June 2008 under Prof. Ruth Durrer, with the thesis titled "Theoretical and observational aspects of Dark Energy." She previously completed a diploma in mesoscopic physics at EPFL in 2004. Her career trajectory encompasses an SNSF-funded assistant professorship at the University of Geneva from June 2016 to May 2020, a senior fellowship at CERN from October 2014 to May 2016, a Herchel-Smith postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge's Kavli Institute for Cosmology and Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from October 2010 to September 2013, a junior research fellowship at King’s College Cambridge from October 2010 to September 2014, and a postdoctoral researcher position at CEA Saclay's Institut de Physique Théorique from November 2008 to September 2010.

Bonvin has obtained prestigious grants, including an ERC Consolidator Grant worth 1.9 million Euros in December 2019 for "Testing the law of gravity with novel large-scale structure observables," an SNSF Professorship of 1.2 million CHF in June 2016, and additional SNSF project funding. She was awarded the Swiss Physical Society prize for her PhD thesis in July 2009. In professional roles, she coordinated the Euclid mission's theory work package WP9 on relativistic effects in observations from July 2013 to January 2020, co-chaired the cosmology working group for the eLISA gravitational waves experiment from May 2013 to December 2014, and serves on the SNSF Postdoc.Mobility Evaluation Commission since October 2021. Key publications include "What do galaxy surveys really measure?" (2012), "Isolating relativistic effects in large-scale structure" (2014), "Euclid preparation: Review of forecast constraints on dark energy and modified gravity" (2025), and works on gravitational redshift and galaxy clustering. She teaches cosmology for master students and mathematical methods for bachelor students at the University of Geneva and supervises PhD students.