Education

• Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, University of Paris 7, 1992
• PhD in Astrophysics, University of Paris 7, 1986
• Diplôme d’Ingénieur de l’Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris, 1982

Prizes

• 2012: Descartes-Huyghens from the French and Netherlands Academies of Sciences, Paris
• 2011: Premio Internazionale Cartagine, Italy
• 1987: Bronze medal of the CNRS

Employment & Administration

• 2009-18: co-Director of the French-China International laboratory ‘Origins’
• 2010-14: Secretary, then in the last year, President of the Scientific Council of CNRS-INSU
• 2002-2010 Founding Director of the Laboratoire d’Etudes des Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique et Instrumentation (GEPI), department of the Paris Observatory associated to CNRS (UMR8111) and to the University of Paris-Diderot
• 1991-92 on long visit at CFHT (support astronomer)
• 1987 enters Paris Observatory as Astronome Adjoint

Relevant Experience

• 2009-11 PI of the Phase A of OPTIMOS-EVE (multi-object spectrograph for the E-ELT)
• 2004-09 French PI of X-SHOOTER, implemented at VLT/Paranal in 2009
• 1997-2002 Principal Investigator of GIRAFFE implemented at VLT in July 2002
• 2002-05 then 2012-14, Member at large of the OPC at ESO
• 2006-09 PI of IMAGES, VLT Large Program providing the first observations of distant galaxies with integral
• field units, 20 publications, citation rate ~ 1000
• Advisor of 17 PhD thesis (1 at present) and supervision of 11 post-docs
• Author or co-author of 169 refereed publications (citation rate: 10,200, Hindex: 51)
• Chair or co-chair of > 10 international conferences

Areas of Interest

Galaxy formation, cosmology, Local Group, dark matter, stellar populations, large surveys, kinematics,
gravitation, chemistry, gravitational lensing, radio, IR & optical astronomy, optical instrumentation, spectroscopy,
imagery, lead of large instrumental projects.