Julien H. V. Girard
VLT operations staff astronomer
I
am a physicist/astronomer currently
working as Operations Staff Astronomer
at ESO,
spending my time between Santiago and the Paranal
Observatory in northern Chile.
I mostly work on VLT/UT4
where most adaptive optics systems are (NaCo, SINFONI,
MACAO-VLTI, Future AOF, etc.). I am Instrument Scientist of NaCo
and I am currently (re)building up an Adaptive Optics operation group. The
remaining time is
dedicated to my personal research
or R&D projects,
collaborations, etc.
My interests are broad, from faint companion search (brown dwarfs, extra-solar planets), young and massive stars, to AGNs.
Disclaimer:
the content of this page is independant of ESO's standpoint.
- Public
Outreach:
I
think that sciences and astronomy in particular aren't
completly useless in the society. I am more and more
interested in
public
outreach and therefore I will try to provide interesting informations
and links
hereby. You can also
read about this photographic exhibition "Ella
es Astrónoma" I produced about Women
astronomers in Mexico.