EDUCATION
2012 Accreditation to supervise research, higher diploma (HDR) , Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Toulouse III, Toulouse, France
1997-2000 PhD Astrophysics: Astrophysics department, Keele University, England, UK, supervisor : Prof. Tim Naylor. Grant : PPARC.
1996-1997 Master Astronomy, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sussex, UK. Grant: PPARC
CURRENT POSITION
2016-present Astronomer (full professor), Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP, formerly the CESR), University Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2004-2016 Assistant astronomer (assistant professor), IRAP, University Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier
2000-2004 Post-doc, Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements (CESR), Toulouse, France
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
2003-present 5 Postdocs (2004-2005: A. Martocchia, 2007-2008: S. Farrell, 2009-2012: D. Lin, 2012-2015: I. Zolotukhin, 2015-present: F. Koliopanos)
4 PhD students (2005-2008: M. Servillat, 100% supervision, 2008-2011: B. Pancrazi, 80% supervision, 2015-2019: N. Baillot-Etivaux, 20% supervision, 2019-present: Hugo Tranin, 100% supervision)
27 Master Students (2003: D. Serre, 2005: J. Soum, 2006: S. Dupuy, F. Couvrat, 2007: S. Dupuy, 2008: D. Villa-Pascual, J. Rodrigues, 2011: D. Sossai, D. Séguignes, 2012: D. Turpin, A. Jardin-Blicq, 2013: B. Hacker, A. Pitelet, 2014: M. Mrkalj, G. Garrel, 2015: Detoeuf, N. Baillot d’Etivaux, 2016: M. Pichardo Marcano, 2017: S. Soler, Wojtowicz, 2018: I. Pastor Marazuela, A. Decroocq, M. Thepenier, 2019: X. Astiasarain, C. Diez, 2020 : E. Quintin, F. Castellani, IRAP, University Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2016- present Head of the Masters in Astrophysics, Space Science and Planetary physics (ASEP), University Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
2004-present 60-90h/yr of lectures/ problem/lab classes for undergraduate & masters students – Topics: Astrophysics, Physics, Maths, Scientific English. University Toulouse III & the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), Toulouse, France
1997-2000 60h/yr of lab classes (electronics, astrophysics) for undergraduates. Keele University, UK
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2020 SOC member for “XMM-Newton: Current scientific highlights and future prospects”, EAS, Leiden, Netherlands (~100 participants)
2020 SOC member for “Extremes in accretion onto strongly magnetised neutron stars: Observations vs.theory”, EAS, Leiden, Netherlands (~50 participants)
2020 Chair of “PhDs and Post-docs: Pleasure or woe”, French week of astronomy, Paris (~30 participants)
2020 SOC member of “The X-ray Universe”, ESAC, Netherlands (~300 participants)
2019 Chair of the 32nd XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (SSC) Consortium Meeting, Strasbourg, France (~30 participants)
2019 SOC member for “Acc. onto highly magnetised neutron stars”, EWASS, Lyon (~50 participants)
2018 SOC member for “Ultra Luminous X-ray Pulsars”, ESAC, Spain (~50 participants)
2018 SOC chair for “Treasures Hidden in High Energy Catalogues”, Toulouse, France (~90 particip.)
2018 Chair of the 31st XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (SSC) Consortium Meeting, Paris, France (~30 participants)
2017 SOC member of “The X-ray Universe”, Rome, Italy (~300 participants)
2017 Chair of the 30th XMM-Newton SSC Consortium Meeting, Garching,Germany (~30 participants)
2016 SOC member of “ULXs and their Environment” workshop, Strasbourg, France, (~60 people)
2016 Chair of the 29th XMM-Newton SSC Consortium Meeting, Santander, Spain (~30 participants)
2015 Chair of the 28th XMM-Newton SSC Consortium Meeting, MSSL, England (~30 participants)
2015 Co-chair of LOC for the Annual French National Astronomy meeting (SF2A), University Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France (~300 participants)
2014 Chair of the 27th XMM-Newton SSC Consortium Meeting, Potsdam, Germany (~30 participants)
2012 SOC member “X-ray Binaries, 50 Years Since the Discovery of Sco X-1”,Boston,USA (~100 part.)
2011 Chair of LOC, 25th XMM-Newton SSC Consortium Meeting, Toulouse, France (~40 participants)
2011 Chair of the SOC/LOC for the Workshop ’The formation and evolution of intermediate mass black holes: the case of HLX-1 in ESO 243-49, IRAP, Toulouse, France (~30 participants)
2011 LOC member, CTA meeting, IRAP, Toulouse, France (~300 participants)
2005 Chair of LOC, 18th XMM-Newton SSC Consortium Meeting, Toulouse, France (~40 participants)
2003 LOC member, 15th XMM-Newton SSC Consortium Meeting, Paris, France (~45 participants)
2001 LOC member, 12th XMM-Newton SSC Consortium Meeting, Toulouse (~50 participants)
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2016-2020 President of the Administrative council of the Astronomical Observatory of Strasbourg
2016-2020 Head of department (GAHEC, 60 members), IRAP, Toulouse, France
2015-present Project scientist for the Athena X-IFU science ground segment and Co-I of Athena mission
2014-present Co-chair of the Mission Working Group 5.1 for Athena (ground segment)
2013-present Head of the XMM-Newton Survey Science Consortium (10 European institutes)
2011-2015 Co-responsible for the Astrophysics of compact objects group, GAHEC department, IRAP
2010 Head of the High Energy department at the CESR
2009-2010 Deputy-head of the High Energy department at the CESR
2008-present Member of the study group for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)
2008-present Affiliated Fermi scientist
2006-2010 Member of the CESR (Toulouse, France) webpage commission
2005-present Co-investigator (Co-I) of the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre
2004-2010 Seminar organiser at the CESR, Toulouse, France
RECENT COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
2020 Reviewer for Floriane Cangemi’s PhD, AIM, CEA, Saclay, France
2019 External member of a jury for a tenure position, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
2019 Examiner for Galahad Jego’s PhD, AIM, CEA, Saclay, France
2019 President of Mathias Péault’s PhD jury, IRAP, Toulouse, France
2019 Reviewer for Francis Fortin’s PhD, AIM, CEA, Saclay, France
2018 Member of an HCERES evaluation of AIM, CEA, Saclay, France
2018-… Member of the Service duties commission at the ‘Obs Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
2018 Reviewer for Anu Kundu’s thesis defence, Astronomical Observatory of Strasbourg, France
2018 President of the jury for Frédéric Pitout’s HDR thesis defence, IRAP, France
2017 Reviewer for Aurélien Sourie’s thesis defence, LUTh, France
2017-18Chair of panel B2 for the XMM-Newton Time Allocation Committee
2017 Reviewer for Hannah Earnshaw’s thesis defence, Durham University, UK
2017-18Chair of panel 2 for the INTEGRAL Time Allocation Committee
2016 Examiner for Damien Turpin’s thesis defence, IRAP, France
2016 Reviewer for Andreas Zech’s HDR thesis defence, LUTh, France
2016 Member of the selection for two lecturers at University Paris VII, Paris, France
2016 Member of the committee to select Einstein Fellowship post-docs, Boston, USA
2016 Member of review panel for AHEAD proposals (Work packages 2 and 5)
2015-17 Member of the Time Allocation Committees for the sub mm telescope ALMA
