Education
Ph.D., Astronomy and Astrophysics, Observatoire de Paris, France
M.Sc., Astronomy and Astrophysics, Observatoire de Paris, France
B.Sc., Physics, Ecole Normale Superieure & Universite Paris VI, France
Academic Employment
Assistant Professor, Institute for Astronomy, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico (starting 2025)
Research Scientist, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, USA
Visiting Scientist, Astrophysical Big Bang Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan
Research Associate, Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Past Academic Employment
2021 – 2024 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
2021 Visiting Fellow, Extreme Light Infrastructure, Czech Republic
2019 – 2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University, USA
2019 – 2021 Visiting Researcher, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, USA
2018 Visiting scholar, KIPAC, Stanford University, USA
2015 – 2018 Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2012 – 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Awards & Grants
2022 Faculty Course Redesign Fellow Award—Project REAL, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
2020 Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, USA
2018 – 2020 Koret Fellowship, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, USA
2015 – 2017 Lady Davis Fellowship, The Hebrew University, Israel
Simons Collaboration on Extreme Electrodynamics of Neutron Stars and
Black Holes (2023); Co-I
List of publications
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Member
Astrobiology Initiative, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Simons Collaboration on Extreme Electrodynamics of Compact Sources
Telescope Array Collaboration
The Extreme Non-Thermal Universe: CDY Initiative
University of California, Santa Cruz, Astronomy & Astrophysics Colloquium committee (2022 – 2023)
Elected Students Representative, Doctoral School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of Paris (2009 – 2010)
Lecturer
Lectures on Cosmic Rays at the Summer School on Extreme Electrodynamics of Neutron Stars and Black Holes, Washington University in St Louis, June 3-14, 2024
Lecturer, ASTR-117: High Energy Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2022 - 2023 (Winter quarter) and 2023 - 2024 (Spring quarter)
- air shower models
- cosmic-ray spectrum and composition
- cosmic-ray transport and original (second-order) Fermi acceleration
- shocks and first order Fermi acceleration
- supernova remnants
- neutron stars and black holes
- jets and winds from stellar and supermassive black holes
- multimessenger astronomy
Teaching assistant, Paris Observatory, 2008 - 2012 (3 years with 64 hours teaching every year, 1 year with 96 hours) Paris Observatory and Universite Paris VI.
- nuclear magnetic resonance
- special and general relativity
- solar optics and spectroscopy
- dynamics of dilute gases and plasmas
- imagery post-processing
- far-infrared detection
- introduction to astronomy and astrophysics
- programming in IDL
- supervisor of observations at Solar Tower
- undergraduate student training (short-term research projects)
Grant Panelist
French National Research Agency (France), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA), Israel Science Foundation (Israel)
Referee
Nature, Science, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, ACS Earth & Space Chemistry
Conference Organizer
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee, Workshop Feeling the pull and the pulse of relativistic magnetospheres, Les Houches, France, April 2025
Moderator, Bay Area Planetary Science (BAPS) Conference, 2023
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee, Windows on the Universe, ICISE, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, August 6 - 12, 2023
Member of the Local Organizing Committee, IAUS 375: The multimessenger chakra of blazar jets, Kathmandu, Nepal, December 5-9 , 2022
Member of the Local Organizing Committee, 31st Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Prague, Czech Republic, September 12 - 16 , 2022
Chair of the Organizing Committee, Nuclear Astrophysics & Cosmic Rays in the Multimessenger Era, ICISE, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, July 25-29, 2022
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee, Theory meeting experiment: particle astrophysics and cosmology, ICISE, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, January 6-11, 2020
Chair of the Organizing Committee, High Energy Astrophysics Israel Japan Workshop, RIKEN, Wako and Kobe Campus, Japan, July 18-23, 2019
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee, Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, August 12-18, 2018
Chair of the Anisotropy Session, 2017 International Cosmic Ray Conference, Bexco, Busan, Korea, July 12-20, 2017
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee, High Energy Astrophysics Workshop at the Hebrew University, Israel, February 28, 2017
Seminar Organizer
2022 – 2024 Organizer of the UCSC Astrobiology Colloquium
2016 – 2018 Organizer of the weekly Astronomy seminar, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Number of Invited Talks at International Conferences
35 (full list available upon request)
Number of Invited Colloquia* & Seminars
75 (full list available upon request)
Selected Public Outreach Activities
Public outreach, College of San Matteo, USA (2018)
Public outreach, Wise Observatory of the Negev, Israel (2013 - 2014)
Public outreach, Paris Observatory, France (2008 - 2011)
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organizer of open nights, outreach lectures, mentor of astronomy projects in schools
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supervisor of observations for graduate students at the Solar Tower of Meudon (spectrograph)
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responsible for observations for the public at the historical 1-meter Telescope of Meudon (Jules Janssen Telescope, built in 1891)
Co-founder and active member, ALCOR, association for Astronomy of Paris XI University, France (2002 - 2007)
Observing Experiences
2011-2013: Observations at Telescope Bernard Lyot, Observatoire du Pic du Midi (21 nights). Instrument: NARVAL (spectropolarimeter)
2008: Observations and data reduction at the Observatoire de Haute Provence (1 week), France.
2006: Observations and data analysis at the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (3 weeks at the summit). Instrument: WIRCam.