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 supporting the NaCo
instrument and building up an Adaptive Optics group. The remaining time is
dedicated to my personal research or R&D projects,
collaborations, etc.
Disclaimer: the content of this page is independant of ESO's standpoint.
- The Synoptic All-Sky Infrared (SASIR) Survey. Bloom et. al. Whitepaper submitted to the "Optical and IR Astronomy from the Ground" Program Prioritization Panel of the Astro2010 Decadal Survey
- GUILEOA, the Mexican Adaptive Optics system (SPIE and SF2A 2008)
- Follow-up observations of binary ultra-cool dwarfs (A & A 2008)H. Bouy, E. L. Martin, W. Brandner, T. Forveille, X. Delfosse, N. Huelamo, G. Basri, J. Girard, M.-R. Zapatero Osorio, M. Stumpf, A. Ghez, L., Valdivielso, F. Marchis, A.J. Burgasser, K. Cruz
- 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.