Julien Girard
short bio
Who am I?
I am an instrumentation
physicist/astronomer
currently working as Operations Staff Astronomer at ESO
spending my time between Santiago de Chile and Paranal Observatory.
Previously I worked three years in Mexico City: first as a Postdoctoral Fellow at UNAM’s Institute of Astronomy and then as a Professor at the Escuela Superior de Física y Matemática (ESFM), part of Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN).
I mainly work in the field of optical/IR astronomical instrumentation,
particularly in Adaptive Optics (AO. I obtained my PhD in 2005 on the
on-sky validation of the polychromatic laser guide star concept, which
would allow visible AO observations with 100% sky coverage. I also have
participated to various observations campaigns and have been involved
in the definition of robotic telescope systems.