Emeritus exceptional grade senior researcher at CNRS
Senior scientist at Observatoire de Paris, LESIA (Laboratoire d’Etudes Spatiales et d’Instrumentation pour l’Astrophysique)
group of High Angular Resolution in Astrophysics (Haute Résolution Angulaire en Astrophysique)
Recent responsibilities :
Head of the Astronomy & Astrophysics doctoral school of Paris area (2009-2013)
Vice-President International of SF2A (Société Française
d'Astronomie-Astrophysique), the French Professional Astronomical
Society (2008-2012)
President of the french National Council of Astronomers and Physicists (CNAP) (2008-20011)
Elected at the french Academy of Sciences in 2005
President of the Foundation La Main à la Pâte since 2013
Research fields:
• Interstellar medium, dust, PAH
• Active Galactic Nuclei, Galactic Center, starburst galaxies
• Extrasolar Planets: transits, direct detection, nulling interferometry
• Infrared Instrumentation
• Imaging at high angular resolution and high dynamic: adaptive optics, coronagraphy, nulling interferometry
• Space Experiments: ISO, COROT, JWST / MIRI
• Instrumentation of large ground-based telescopes (CFHT, VLT): CIRCUS, ADONIS, GRIF, NAOS, SPHERE
