Curriculum Vitae

Positions

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

	2020, 2021	PI - CNRS/INSU/CSAA - 55 k€
		Funding hardware for HiRISE at the VLT
	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

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)
	Provisional title: SPHERE archival data analysis for ground-based reference differential imaging
2019-present	Mona El Morsy. Full supervision (100%)
	Provisional title: Prototype instrument for the direct characterization of young giant exoplanets
2018-present	Mathis Houllé. Co-supervision (70%) with P. Figueira (ESO)
	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)
	Title: Co-phasing measurement for segmented mirrors
2012-2015	Alice Zurlo. Co-supervision (30%) with C. Moutou (LAM) and R. Gratton (INAF/OAPD)
	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
	Performance simulation for the SPHERE/CRIRES+ coupling and support in the development of the prototype for SPHERE
2015-2017	Roxanne Ligi. Postdoc CNES
	Combining Kepler and SPHERE for the detection and characterization of exoplanetary systems
2014-2015	Graeme Salter. Postdoc ANR
	Exploitation of the first on-sky data of VLT/SPHERE

Engineers

2019-present	Maxime Lopez. Optical engineer
	Final design and AIT for the HiRISE instrument
2018-2020	Yannick Charles. Mechanical engineer
	Mechanical design of the fiber injection module of HiRISE
2016-2019	Raphaël Pourcelot. Optical engineer apprentice from Institut d'Optique Graduate School
	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

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