Curriculum Vitae
Positions
- University of Exeter, United-Kingdom
- 2010 - 2012
- Associate Research Fellow, working with Jenny Patience
Education
Awards and Distinctions
2021 |
CNRS Bronze Medal (national award): CNRS annoucement, local announcement |
2016 |
CNRS prize for scientific excellence |
2015 |
Research grant from the City of Marseille |
2012 |
Invited researcher position at CRAL (Lyon, France) for one month |
2006 |
Graduated with honours from Université Jean Monnet (St Etienne, France) |
Grants
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2020, 2021 |
PI - CNRS/INSU/CSAA - 55 k€ |
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Funding hardware for HiRISE at the VLT |
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2016 |
PI - ERC - 1.5 M€ |
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Project HiRISE to couple high-contrast imaging with high-resolution spectroscopy at the Very Large Telescope |
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2014 |
Co-I - CNES - 56 k€ |
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Validation and chracterization of CoRoT and Kepler/K2 exoplanet candidates with VLT/SPHERE. 2 years postdoc funding for Roxanne Ligi. |
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2014 |
PI - Provence-Alpes Côte d'Azure - 60 k€ |
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Analyse de Surface d’Onde à haute performance pour la Recherche et la caractérisation de planètes EXtra-solaires (ASOREX) |
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2013 | PI - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille - 10 k€ |
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Design and manufacturing of a stop-less Lyot coronagraph. |
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2010-present |
Co-I - French "national programs" (ASHRA, PNP) - several k€/year |
Projects appointments
2019-present |
Co-I of the SPHERE+ upgrade project |
2017-present |
Associate member in the WFIRST/CGI Science Working Group |
2017-present |
PI of ERC project HiRISE |
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
- Councils, committees and expertise groups
2019-present |
Member CNAP national recruitment committee. Rank B assessor of the committee |
2017-2018 |
Member of the ESO Observing Programmes Committee (OPC) |
2015 |
ESO SPHERE proposals reviewer and technical feasability |
Regular |
Referee for astrophysics and optics journals |
Regular |
Member of PhD committees (J. Lannier, F. Cantalloube, P. Janin-Potiron) |
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 (NSERC) |
Confidential |
Reviewer for the Mexican Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CANACYT) |
Confidential |
Reviewer for the Domaine d’Intérêt Majeur ACAV (DIM ACAV) |
- Local involvement
2018-present |
Member of the laboratory council at LAM (CL) |
2018-present |
Member of the instrumentation stearing committee at LAM (CPI) |
2017-present |
Member of the ERC coaching group at Aix-Marseille University (CERCle) |
2013-2014 |
Co-representative of the exoplanet group at the LAM scientific council |
2007-2009 |
Student representative at the LAM and OAMP scientific councils |
- Conference and seminars organisation
2019 |
SOC member for the workshop AO4ASTRO (~60 participants) |
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 |
Teaching and Supervision
- PhD students
2020-present |
Chen Xie. Co-supervision (50%) with E. Choquet (LAM) |
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Provisional title: SPHERE archival data analysis for ground-based reference differential imaging |
2019-present |
Mona El Morsy. Full supervision (100%) |
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Provisional title: Prototype instrument for the direct characterization of young giant exoplanets |
2018-present |
Mathis Houllé. Co-supervision (70%) with P. Figueira (ESO) |
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Provisional title: Combining high-contrast imaging and high-spectral resolution techniques |
2016-present |
Anne-Laure Cheffot. Co-supervision (30%) with S. Lévêque (ESO) and E. Hugot (LAM) |
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Title: Co-phasing measurement for segmented mirrors |
2012-2015 |
Alice Zurlo. Co-supervision (30%) with C. Moutou (LAM) and R. Gratton (INAF/OAPD) |
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Title: Characterization of exoplanetary systems with the direct imaging technique: towards the first results of SPHERE at the VLT |
- Postdocs
2018-present |
Gilles Otten. Postdoc ERC |
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Performance simulation for the SPHERE/CRIRES+ coupling and support in the development of the prototype for SPHERE |
2015-2017 |
Roxanne Ligi. Postdoc CNES |
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Combining Kepler and SPHERE for the detection and characterization of exoplanetary systems |
2014-2015 |
Graeme Salter. Postdoc ANR |
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Exploitation of the first on-sky data of VLT/SPHERE |
- Engineers
2019-present |
Maxime Lopez. Optical engineer |
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Final design and AIT for the HiRISE instrument |
2018-2020 |
Yannick Charles. Mechanical engineer |
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Mechanical design of the fiber injection module of HiRISE |
2016-2019 |
Raphaël Pourcelot. Optical engineer apprentice from Institut d'Optique Graduate School |
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Upgrade of the MITHIC high-contrast imaging testbed. Implementation of fiber injection on MITHIC |
- MSc and BA interns
Multiple students supervised or co-supervised: |
M. Batista (MSc, 2012), M. Read (BA, 2012), L. Ben Assayag (MSc, 2013), R. Lucchesi (MSc, 2016), S. Tourenq (BA, 2017), E. Robert (MSc, 2018), J. Hulin (MSc, 2018), B. Rouzé (MSc, 2018), P. Cristofari (MSc, 2019), X. Devos (MSc, 2020). |
- 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 |
Observing Experience
PI or Co-I on more than 90 observing programmes at ESO, Gemini, CFHT or on HST since 2009, totaling more than 4000 hours of telescope time in open time or GTO programmes.
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: 7 nights |
Invited seminars and talks
11-2020 |
seminar; ETH Zürich (Switzerland, remote) [slides] |
10-2020 |
seminar, Exoplanet Research Centre; Cambridge (UK, remote) [slides] |
03-2019 |
invited talk, workshop AO4ASTRO; Marseille (France) [slides] |
01-2019 |
seminar; University of Göttingen (Germany) [slides] |
01-2019 |
seminar, CEA Department of Astrophysics (DAp); Saclay (France) [slides] |
01-2018 |
seminar, R&D seminar at Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille; Marseille (France) [slides] |
12-2017 |
seminar, University of Exeter; Exeter (UK) [slides] |
11-2017 |
seminar, California Institute of Technology; Pasadena (USA) [slides] |
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 |
invited talk, workshop Measuring the Atmospheric Spectrum of Extrasolar Planets; Exeter (United-Kingdom) |
Press releases
2021 |
Celebrating two decades of SPHERE challenges and achievements: CNRS, LAM |
2017 |
HIP 65426 b, the first exoplanet discovered by SPHERE: CNRS, LAM |
2014 |
First light of VLT/SPHERE: CNRS |
Outreach
2019 |
Intervention in the science show La Méthode Scientifique on national radio France Culture |
2018 |
Invited to the science show La Tête au Carré on national radio France Inter |
2018 |
Participation to the Looking for new Earth documentary produced by BBC and France 5 |
2017-2018 |
Presenting the work of an astronomer to classes (from elementary school to high-school) |
2011 |
Astronomy and optics presented to children in elementary school (Exeter, United-Kingdom) |
2006 |
Guide in a museum exhibition dedicated to astronomy (Marseille, France) |
Regular |
Public conferences in France (associations, amateur astronomy meetings) |
Regular |
Participation to outreach events for the French Fête de la Science |