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Nicolas NARDETTO Team Leader
- CR - CNRS
- +33 (0)4 92 00 19 68
- nicolas.nardetto at oca.eu
- Location : PES - Mont Gros
- Research: distance scale (Araucaria Project) with cepheids and eclipsing binaries (VEGA, SPICA/CHARA)
- Webpage
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Staff (Alphabetical order)
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Philippe Bendjoya
- Professor
- +33 (0)4 92 00 19 63
- philippe.bendjoya at unice.fr
- Location: Fizeau - Valrose
- Research : Asteroids and evolved stars, Astrobiology (Master Mauca - M2)
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Lionel Bigot
- CR CNRS
- +33 (0)4 92 00 30 56
- lbigot at oca.eu
- Location : PES - Mont Gros
- Research : 3D MHD, seismology, dynamo of Sun & star, exoplanet detection (OCA-PLATO)
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Andrea Chiavassa
- CR - CNRS
- +33 (0)4 92 00 30 27
- andrea.chiavassa at oca.eu
- Location : PES - Mont Gros
- Research : Stellar spectroscopy and convection, Interferometry, Exoplanet atmospheres, 3D models (OPTIM3D)
- webpage
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Thierry Corbard
- Astronome adjoint
- +33 (0)4 92 00 30 49
- thierry.corbard at oca.eu
- Location : PES - Mont Gros
- Research : Helioseismology, Solar weather & Physics, Inversion (MeteoSpace)
- webpage
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Orlagh Creevey
- Astronome Adjoint
- +33 (0)4 92 00 30 41
- orlagh.creevey at oca.eu
- Location : Fizeau - Valrose
- Research : Stellar and planetary fundamental parameters, stellar populations (Gaia)
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Armando Domiciano de Souza
- Astronome adjoint
- +33 (0)4 92 00 19 71
- armando.domiciano at oca.eu
- Location : Fizeau - Valrose
- Research: High angular and high spectral resolution of massive stars - Rotation, mass loss, environnement (CHARRON, HDUST, FRACS, ESTER codes). AMHRA/MOIO/JMMC coordinator.
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Marianne Faurobert
- Professor
- +33 (0)4 92 00 63 46
- marianne.faurobert at oca.eu
- Location : Fizeau - Valrose
- Research : Solar magnetic fields, non-LTE radiative transfer of polarized radiation, High angular resolution observations.
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Eric Lagadec
- Astronome adjoint
- +33 (0)4 92 00 19 79
- eric.lagadec at oca.eu
- Location : PES - Mont Gros
- Research : environment of evolved stars (SPHERE/VLT, DUSTY)
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Astrid Lamberts
- CR - CNRS
- astrid.lamberts at oca.eu
- Location : Fizeau - Valrose + Mt Gros - Maison Jumelles
- Research: compact binaries, gravitationnal waves predictions
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Anthony Meilland
- CR - CNRS
- +33 (0)4 92 07 19 74
- anthony.meilland at oca.eu
- Location : Fizeau - Valrose
- Research : Interferometry - Massive stars - mass loss & Environments (MATISSE/VLTI)
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Djamel Mékarnia
- CR - CNRS
- +33 (0)4 92 00 19 73
- djamel.mekarnia at oca.eu
- Location : PES - Mont Gros
- Research : ASTEP project
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Florentin Millour
- Astronome adjoint
- +33 (0)4 92 00 30 68
- florentin.millour at oca.eu
- Location : Fizeau - Valrose
- Research : Imaging & Long-baseline interferometry, AMBER, MATISSE, Massive stars
- webpage
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Denis Mourard
- Astronome
- +33 (0)4 92 00 19 59
- denis.mourard at oca.eu
- Location : Fizeau - Valrose
- Research : PI of VEGA and SPICA/CHARA interferometric instruments, hypertelescopes
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Gilles Niccolini
- Assistant professor
- +33 (0)4 92 04 19 74 or +33 (0)4 92 00 19 74
- gilles.niccolini at oca.eu
- Location : Fizeau - Valrose
- Research : L3 coordinator, environment of evolved stars (FRACS code)
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Philippe Stee
- DR CNRS - Head of Lagrange Laboratory
- +33 (4) 92 00 31 17
- Philippe.Stee at oca.eu
- Location : Fizeau-Valrose / PES-Mont Gros
- Research: Massive stars : winds, optical interferometry, radiative transfert.
- webpage
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Postdocs
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Mathis Houlle
- Postdoc (start Automn 2022 / ANR ExoVLTI)
- Mathis.Houlle at oca.eu
- Location : Valrose
- Research: Gravity+
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Roxanne Ligi
- Postdoc (start Automn 2022 / ERC ISSP)
- Roxanne.Ligi at oca.eu
- Location : Valrose
- Research : SPICA (Exoplanet Host Stars)
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Romina Ibanez
- Postdoc (start Automn 2022 / ERC ISSP)
- Romina.Ibanez at oca.eu
- Location : Valrose
- Research : SPICA (Surface-Brightness Color Relations)
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Shanika Galaudage
- Postdoc (start Automn 2022 / ANR COSMERGE)
- Shanika.Galaudage at oca.eu
- Location : Valrose
- Research : Progenitors of Gravitational Waves
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Emeritus/Benevoles
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Pierre Morel
- Astronomer
- +33 (0)4 92 00 xx xx
- Pierre.Morel at oca.eu
- Location :
- Research : Stellar structure and evolution (star evolution code CESAM)
- webpage
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Janine Provost
- Astronomer
- +33 (0)4 92 00 30 79
- janine.provost at oca.eu
- Location : PES - Mont Gros
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Rabbia Yves
- Astronomer emeritus
- yves.rabbia at oca.eu
- Location : Fizeau - Valrose
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Frédéric Thévenin
- DR - CNRS
- frederic.thevenin at oca.eu
- Location : Fizeau - Valrose
- Research: radiative transfer, NLTE, interferometry, asterosismology
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Alain Chelli
- Astronome
- +33 (0)4 92 00 19 66
- Chelli at oca.eu
- Location : PES - Mont Gros
- Research : Interferometry, catalogues of angular diameters, ...
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Farrokh Vakili
- Astronome
- Farrokh.vakili at oca.eu
- Location : PES - Mont Gros
- Research : Interferometry, Be, wind, P Cyg
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Eric Fossat
- Astronome
- Eric.Fossat at oca.eu
- Location : PES - Mont Gros
- Research : Heliosismology
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PhD students
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Maria Chiara MAIMONE
- PhD. supervisor A. Chiavassa (defense: 2022)
- mmaimone -at- oca.eu
- Location: PES - Mont Gros
- Atmosphere of exoplanets and host stars by high spectral resolution
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Dinil Bose Palakkatharappil
- PhD. supervisor O. Creevey (defense: 2022)
- dinil-bose.palakkatharappil -at- oca.eu
- Location: PES - Mont Gros
- Age of stars. Asteroseismology. TESS/PLATO.
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Cyril Pannetier
- PhD. supervisor D. Mourard & F. Cassing (ONERA) (defense: 2022)
- Cyril.Pannetier -at- oca.eu
- Location: Fizeau - Valrose
- Development of CHARA/SPICA instrument. Fringe-Tracker (SPICA-FT) characterization
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Jérémy Perdigon
- PhD. supervisor M. Faurobert & G. Niccolini (defense: 2022)
- Jeremy.Perdigon -at- oca.eu
- Location: Fizeau - Valrose
- Radiative transfer in circumstellar environment
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Julien Drevon
- PhD. supervisor P. Cruzalebes & F. Millour (defense: 2023)
- Julien.Drevon -at- oca.eu
- Location: PES - Mont Gros
- Research: Evolved stars with MATISSE/VLTI
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Rahul Srinivasan
- PhD. supervisor A. Lamberts & Marie-Anne Bizouard (defense: 2023)
- Rahul.Srinivasan - at - oca.eu
- Location: Valrose - Mont Gros
- Research: Stellar Black Holes in Universe
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Bruel Tristan
- PhD. supervisor A. Lamberts (defense: 2024 / ANR COSMERGE)
- Tristan.Bruel - at - oca.eu
- Location: Valrose
- Research: Study of black hole binaries formation channels
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Margaux Abello
- PhD. supervisors A. Domiciano and A. Meilland (defense: 2025 / ANR MASSIF)
- Margaux.Abello - at - oca.eu
- Location: Valrose
- Research: Study of massive stars, interferometry
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Elysabeth Beguin
- PhD. supervisors A. Chiavassa (defense: 2025 / ANR PEPPER)
- Elysabeth Beguin - at - oca.eu
- Location: Valrose/PES
- Research: Study of evolved stars: magnetism, convection, mass loss
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Juraj Jonak
- PhD. supervisor D. Mourard (defense: 2025 / ERC ISSP)
- Juraj.Jonak - at - oca.eu
- Location: Valrose/PES
- Research: Study of binaries with SPICA
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Former Staff
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Eric Chapellier
- Astronome, retired
- Research : asterosismology, analysis of CoRoT and ASTEP data
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Luc Dessart
- CR - CNRS
- +33 (0)4 92 00 30 41
- luc.dessart at oca.eu
- Location : Paris Observatory
- Research :Supernova, massive stars, white dwarfs, stellar evolution, radiative hydrodynamics & transfer
- webpage
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Thierry Lanz
- Astronome
- +33 (0)4 92 00 19 89
- thierry.lanz at oca.eu
- Location : CION - Mont Gros
- Research: radiative transfer, atmospheric models, abundances, ...
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Claire Michaut
- DR - CNRS
- Claire.Michaut at oca.eu
- Location : Fizeau - Valrose
- Research : Laboratory astrophysics
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Olga Suarez
- Ingenieur de recherche, service éducatif de l'OCA
- +33 (0)4 92 00 19 61
- olga.suarez at oca.eu
- Location : PES - Mont Gros
- Research: radio interferometry, water fountains
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Former Ph.D. & Postdocs (since 2010)
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Rabah Ikhlef
- PhD. 12/2016 (Supervisor T. Corbard)
- Actual position: CRAAG
- Research : Solar Physics - Atmospheric turbulence
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Zeinab Khorrami
- PhD. 2016
- Research : Adaptive optics of cluster R136
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Mounir Challouf
- PhD. 2015
- Research : Interferometry - Surface Brightness relations
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Daniel Mac Donald
- PhD. coSupervisor E. Lagadec (defense: 2018)
- Research : evolved stars
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Kateryna Kravchenko
- PhD. supervisor Van Eck (Bruxelles) & A. Chiavassa (defense: 2019)
- Research: Tomography of convective layers in evolved stars
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Roxanne Ligi
- Ph.D. (11/2010-10/2013)
- roxanne.ligi at oca.eu
- Research : Interferometry, Stellar diameters, surface activity.
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Sergey Lisakov
- PhD. supervisor L. Dessart (defense: 2018)
- Research : Core collapse Supernovae and progenitor
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Marc-Antoine Martinod
- PhD. supervisor D. Mourard & K. Perraut (Grenoble) (defense: 2018)
- Research: Interferometry - FRIEND instrument
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Thibault Merle
- PhD. Grant Thales Ariane Space/Région (10/2008-02/2012) PACA (Supervisor L. Bigot & F. Thévenin)
- Actual position : Postdocs University of Bruxelles ULB (Belgium)
- Research : NLTE line transfer, stellar atmospheres & populations
- webpage
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David Salabert
- Postdoc 2011-2013 CNES (T. Corbard) 2016-2017 CEA, Lagrange 2020 (MATISSE and SPICA)
- Research : Helio and asteroseismology
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Luca Santoro
- Ph.D. (F. Thévenin OCA, A. Valenari Padova)
- Actual position : postdoc
- Research : stellar evolution and rotation.
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Anthony Soulain
- PhD. supervisor F. Millour & B. Lopez (defense: 2018)
- Research: massive stars
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Sophia Sulis
- PhD. Grant Thales Ariane Space/Région PACA (Supervisor L. Bigot & D. Mary)
- Actual position : postdoc
- Research : Stellar noise study & exoplanet detection
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Elisson Saldanha
- PhD. Supervisor A. Meilland & A. Domiciano (defense: 23/11/2020)
- Research : massive stars (O, Be, LBV) and circumstellar environment (discs, winds, mass loss)
- Current position: post-doc at Research Instituto de Física y Astronomía/Universidad de Valparaíso (supervisor: Michel Curé)
- www.elissondealmeida.com
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Kevin Bouchaud
- PhD. supervisor A. Domiciano & D. Reese (Paris) (defense: 2019)
- Research: 2D models of fast rotating stars constrained by interferometry and asterosismology
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Vincent Hocdé
- PhD. supervisor N. Nardetto & E. Lagadec (defense: 2020)
- Research: Environment of Cepheids, distance scale
- Post-Doc in Poland (Araucaria Project) with R. Smolec on evolutionnary model of Cepheids including pulsation and mass loss
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Anthony Salsi
- PhD. supervisor N. Nardetto & D. Mourard (defense: 2021)
- Research: Surface-Brigthness color relations, eclipsing binaries, distance scale
- Find a position at Sophia-Antipolis
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Fabien Patru
- Postdoc 2019
- Research: SPICA finge tracker
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Simone Mastrogiovanni
- Postdoc (start Automn 2021 / ANR COSMERGE)
- Simone.Mastrogiovanni at oca.eu
- Location : Fizeau - Valrose
- Research: Statistical interpretation of black hole coalescences
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Fabian Menezes
- Postdoc (start Automn 2021 / ANR PEPPER)
- Menezes.Fabian at oca.eu
- Location : PES - mont Gros
- Research: magneto-hydrodynamic modeling of evolved stars
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updated on 2021-12-06