I
am a permanent staff astronomer
working in the Department
of
Astrophysics at CEA
("Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives")
in France. My main interests are focused on
galaxy formation and transient phenomena such as Gamma-Ray
Bursts, Super-Luminous Supernovae and Fast Radio Bursts. I
am involved in the SVOM project, a
GRB-dedicated satellite to be launched in 2023. I
also work for the
development of METIS, a
mid-infrared spectro-imager to be installed as a first-light
instrument on the European Extremely Large Telescope. I finally
initated a recent project referred as TAMARINS ("Telescope Adapted to Multi-messenger Astrophysics for the Reunion Island Night Sky"). TAMARINS is a small wide-field robotic telescope that will be located in the Indian Ocean, at a summit of Reunion island. It will be designed to cover 8 hours in advance the same fields as LSST, so as to probe the early phase of the most luminous transients that will be discovered each night by the Very Rubin Observatory.
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