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A few words about me:
I am an assistant astronomer at CRAL, Observatoire de Lyon. My main areas of interest are observational cosmology, strong gravitational lensing, and the use of galaxy clusters as gravitational telescopes to look for the most distant galaxies.

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PhD Project : 3D Spectroscopy of lensing cluster fields with MUSE


Previously, I have been a Brahe fellow at the Dark Cosmology Centre in 2010, a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Durham between 2008 and 2010, and a postdoctoral scholar in Astronomy at Caltech between 2005 and 2008, working within Richard Ellis's group. I obtained my PhD degree from Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse. I did my thesis work at the department of Astrophysics of the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, under the supervision of Roser Pelló and Jean-Paul Kneib. I have been working primarily in the Physics of galaxies group on galaxy formation and detection of the first generations of stars and galaxies.  
You can download a PDF version of my PhD thesis HERE


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