A  Professional Life in Short

 
Born in Paris on 23 July 1949 
 
 

Educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure
    and the University of Paris

 


 
 
Joined CERGA in 1974 and  CNRS in 1975
 

PhD in 1980  : Tidal effects in the solar system

Post Doc 1981  : Cornell University (USA)


Director of CERGA 1992-2003.

Hipparcos mission and Hipparcos Science Team 1983-1997

Preparation of the exploitation of the Gaia ESA mission (2000- ?)

Presently Director of Research in CNRS at the Observatory of Côte d'Azur in the Dept Cassiopée.

 


Overview of the Plateau de Calern

 
 

Research responsabilities

Associate member of the Bureau des Longitudes

 

Member of the French National Committee of Scientific Research (Astronomy)

Member of the Science Council of the Institut de Mécanique Céleste

Member Administrative Council of the Observatory of Strasbourg

Member of the CNES advisory committee on fundamental physics

 

Member of the GAIA Science Team (ESA)

Chair of the Gaia DPAC (Data Processing and Analysis Consortium)

 

 

Lunar Laser Ranging on the Plateau de Calern

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