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Francois-Xavier Désert, Astronomer at IPAG
Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (UMR 5274)
Member of the Interstellar
Team
Member of Conseil National des Astronomes et Physiciens, CNAP
Professor at Univ. Grenoble Alpes
Tel: +33 4 56 52 08 93, e-mail : Francois-Xavier Désert, Orcid identifier: 0000-0001-6478-7883
- Education
- 1999, Diploma HDR, Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Univ. Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
- 1986, PhD in physics,Laboratoire de Radioastronomie, Univ. Paris XI, France, Thesis advisers: Evry Schatzmann & Jean-Loup Puget. “Testing the bipartition model of the Universe and Interstellar Grain Temperature fluctuations”
- 1982, Engineer diploma, Ecole Polytechnique, France (promotion 1979)
- Domaines de recherche
- Interstellar Dust
- Cosmic Microwave Background
- Clusters of galaxies
- Publications
- Large Projects
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Processing and calibration of data from the Planck mission, HFI (general presentation of Planck results 2013 (in English): Pdf, libreoffice format and now Planck 2015 is out. Planck 2018 is the ultimate version.
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KID based millimetre camera called NIKA2
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Balloon Archeops
- NASA Satellites: IRAS, COBE
- ESA satellites: ISO
- Responsibilities and Academic societies
- Director of IPAG April 2015 to July 2020
- Member of the selection committee CNAP (2012-2015)
- Member of SF2A (Société Française d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique), of EEAS (European Astronomical Society), and of IAU (International Astronomical Union).
Awards
- 2018 The Gruber Cosmology Prize- as one of the numerous scientists of the Planck mission, in charge of the instrument model.
- 2008 CNRS Silver Medal.
- Divers
- Tought a cosmology course,
teaches first year students in Physics
- Took part in this Book: Livres d'exercices en Relativité Générale, Denis Gialis et François-Xavier Désert, 2016, Collection Grenoble Sciences, EDP Sciences (Chapter 8).
- is a co-author of this book livre: "Le big bang n’est pas une théorie comme les autres", J.-M. Bonnet-Bidaud, F.-X. Désert, D. Leglu, G. Reinisch, Ed. La ville brûle, 2009
- Was the editor of this review Comptes-Rendus
Physique sur le CMB
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