Curriculum Vitae

Positions

Education

Awards and Distinctions

2016	CNRS prize for scientific excellence (14 k€)
2015	Research grant from the City of Marseille (2.5 k€)
2012	Invited researcher position at CRAL (Lyon, France) for one month
2006	Graduated with honours from Université Jean Monnet (St Etienne, France)

Grants

	2016	PI - ERC - 1.5 M€
		Project HiRISE to couple high-contrast imaging with high-resolution spectroscopy at the Very Large Telescope
	2014	Co-I - CNES - 56 k€
		Validation and chracterization of CoRoT and Kepler/K2 exoplanet candidates with VLT/SPHERE. 2 years postdoc funding for Roxanne Ligi.
	2014	PI - Provence-Alpes Côte d'Azure - 60 k€
		Analyse de Surface d’Onde à haute performance pour la Recherche et la caractérisation de planètes EXtra-solaires (ASOREX)
	2013	PI - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille - 10 k€
		Design and manufacturing of a stop-less Lyot coronagraph.
	2010-present	Co-I - French "national programs" (ASHRA, PNP) - several k€/year

Projects appointments

2016-present	Member of the E-ELT/HARMONI science team
2015	Co-instrument scientist of SPHERE at ESO
2015	Member of the SPHERE instrument operation team
2014-present	Co-I of the SHINE large observing program with SPHERE
2013-present	Main coordinator of the SHINE workpackage on exoplanet characterization
2012-present	Co-instrument scientist of the SPHERE/IRDIS instrument
2009-2014	Co-I of the NaCo-LP large observing program
2006-2009	Responsible of the laboratory and on-sky testing of the ZEUS sensor in the Active Phasing Experiment

Scientific and Administrative Responsabilities

Conference and seminars organisation

2015	SOC member for the conference OHP 2015: Twenty years of giant exoplanets (~100 participants)
2015	SOC member for the Journées Scientifique de l'ONERA (~50 participants)
2013	LOC member for the workshop Exoplanet validation (~50 participants)
2012-2013	Co-organisation of the seminars at LAM
2011-2012	Co-organisation of the astrophysics seminars at the university of Exeter

Councils and expertise groups

Confidential	Expert for the European commission (H2020 programs)
Confidential	Reviewer for the Chilean National fund for scientific & technological development (CONICYT/FONDECYT)
Confidential	Reviewer for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
2017	Member of the ESO Observing Programmes Committee (OPC)
2016	PhD committee for Justine Lannier and Faustine Cantalloube
2015	ESO SPHERE proposals reviewer and technical feasability
2010-present	Referee for astrophysics and optics papers

Local involvement

2013-2014	Co-representative of the exoplanet group at the LAM scientific council
2007-2009	Student representative at the LAM and OAMP scientific councils

Teaching and Supervision

PhD Students

2012-2015	Co-supervision of Alice Zurlo (graduated June 2015). Characterization of exoplanetary systems with the direct imaging technique: towards the first results of SPHERE at the VLT
2016-now	Co-supervision of Anne-Laure Cheffot. Cophasing techniques for the E-ELT

Postdocs

2015-present	Roxanne Ligi. Combining Kepler and SPHERE for the detection and characterization of exoplanetary systems
2014-2015	Graeme Salter. Exploitation of the first on-sky data of VLT/SPHERE

MSc and BA Interns

Multiple students supervised or co-supervised (~1 each year since 2012): M. Batista (MSc), M. Read (BA), L. Ben Assayag (MSc), R. Lucchesi (MSc), S. Tourenq (BA)

Lectures and Practical Classes

2010-2015	Lecture on coronagraphy at Aix-Marseille University (MSc level)
2010-2014	Examiner for the BSc in optics at Aix-Marseille University (MSc level)
2011-2012	Astronomical data reduction at the University of Exeter (BA level)

Other

2015	Adaptive optics, coronagraphy and high-contrast imaging course at ESO
2015	Training on SPHERE of ESO fellows, night astronomers and Telescope and Instrument Operators
2012-present	Multiple contributions to projects from high-school and university students

Skills

Astronomical

Observations and operations: visible and near-IR, integral field spectroscopy and slit spectroscopy

High-contrast imaging data reduction: all types of differential imaging techniques (angular, spectral, polarisation, reference) and analysis (LOCI, PCA)

Instrumental simulations and design, in particular for high-contrast applications

Programming

Python, IDL, C, Objective-C, bash, Matlab

Optical design

Basic ZEMAX and Code V

Languages

French: native speaker; English: fluent; Spanish: basic conversational; German: high-school level

Observing Experience

2015	VLT/UT3: 110+ nights as ESO staff astronomer on SPHERE, VIMOS and VISIR
2014	VLT/SPHERE: 30 nights for the commissioning of the instrument
2010	VLT/NaCo: 2 nights of observations
2008	VLT: 10 nights on the visitor instrument APE
2005	MOPRA radiotelescope (Australia): 7 nights

Invited seminars and talks

09-2015	seminar, Centro de Astrofisica de Valparaiso; Valparaiso (Chile) [slides]
07-2015	seminar, Space Telescope Science Institute; Baltimore (USA) [slides]
12-2013	seminar, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope; Weimea (USA) [slides]
05-2012	seminar, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon; Lyon (France) [slides]
11-2009	seminar, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon; Lyon (France)
09-2009	talk, Measuring the Atmospheric Spectrum of Extrasolar Planets with SPHERE/IRDIS; Exeter (United-Kingdom)

Outreach

2010-present	Regular public conferences in France (associations, amateur astronomy meetings)
2008-present	Regular participation to outreach events for the French Fête de la Science
2011	Astronomy and optics presented to children in elementary school (Exeter, United-Kingdom)
2006	Guide in a museum exhibition dedicated to astronomy (Marseille, France)

• © 2015-2017 Arthur Vigan
• Last updated 16 July 2017