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The pictures used to illustrate these pages are related to my work, here is a short description:

• Coronal magnetic fields of the stars DT Vir (left) and V374 Peg (right) as extrapolated from surface magnetic field maps reconstructed with the Zeeman-Doppler imaging technique. These extrapolations have been computed by Moira Jardine from magnetic field maps published in Morin et al. (2008) et Donati et al. (2008).

  

• Montage showing from left to right the Sun, a red dwarf, a brown dwarf, and Jupiter. This picture served to illustrate the 2011 edition of the Évry Schatzman summer school of PNPS on the topic Low-mass stars and the transition stars/brown dwarfs.

  

• Artist impression of a super-flare on the red dwarf star EV Lac. This picture has been used to illustrate the discovery of such an event by Osten et al. (2010) using NASA's Swift satellite which aims to study gamma-ray bursts. Credit : Casey Reed/NASA

  

• Photographs of CFHT (Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope) located at the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii Big Island. Equipped with the spectropolarimeter ESPaDOnS, CFHT is at the forefront of studies of stellar magnetism. Credit : Jean-Charles Cuillandre/CFHT

   

• Illustrations of stellar magntic fields used for the Pale Red Dot blog article by Élodie Hébrard & Rakesh Yadav. Left: extrapolation of the magnetic field of V374 Peg reconstructed with Zeeman-Doppler Imaging (ZDI), from Donati et al. (2006). Right: visualisation of a dynamo numerical simulation, from Yadav et al. (2015).

  

• Artist's impressions of the planet Proxima b, discovered in the framework of the Pale Red Dot project. Credit : ESO/M. Kornmesser.

   

About me

Here is a brief timeline of my university degrees and research positions:

• Oct 2003 - Jun 2006: Master's degree in aerospace engineering, Supaero (now ISAE), Toulouse
  
• Oct 2005 - Jun 2006: Master's degree in Astrophysics, Space Science and Planetology, Université de Toulouse and Supaero. Thesis at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes
• Oct 2006 - Oct 2009: PhD thesis at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (now IRAP)
  
• Nov 2009 - Sep 2011: Postdoctoral researcher and JWST/MIRI software developer at the Dublin IAS
  
• Oct 2011 - Aug 2013: Humboldt fellow at the IfA Göttingen
  
• Since Sep 2013: Maître de conférences (lecturer) at the Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier