Direction de la Recherche Fondamentale DRF – IRFU – Département d'Astrophysique David Elbaz – Head of the Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution Laboratory
David Elbaz – astrophysicist Address: Département d'Astrophysique - CEA Saclay Orme des Merisiers - Bât.709, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France Office: 01 69 08 54 39 / Cell: 07 85 80 08 79 Email:
[email protected] ; Internet: http://david.elbaz3.free.fr Researcher unique identifier: ORCID 0000-0002-7631-647X Born: 18 March 1966, France; Marital status: married with two children
EDUCATION 2005
HDR (Highest academic qualification in France): allow research supervision, Univ. Paris XI
1994
PhD in Astronomy, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble, France
1990
Engineer, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique (ENSPG) - Grenoble, France
CURRENT POSITIONS 2016 – 2015 – 1994 – 2017 – 2015 – 2015 –
Head of the Astrophysics Segment of CEA - Responsible of the long-term planning for the CEA General Director Director of Research at CEA - Saclay, France Head of the "Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution" laboratory at the Astrophysics Department of CEA - Saclay, France President of the National Program on Cosmology and Galaxies (PNCG) committee for the National Institute of the Universe Sciences (INSU) Member of the Astronomy Working Group (AWG) for the European Space Agency (ESA) Member of the Evaluation committee on research and space exploration (CERES) for the French Space Agency (CNES)
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2017
Jaffé Award from the French Academy of Sciences (Fondation de l’Institut de France)
2017
President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2017
Book Award from the X-Philo Association of Polytechnique School for "À la recherche de l'univers invisible" (“Searching for the invisible universe”, 2016, ed. Odile Jacob)
2000
Chrétien Award from the American Astronomical Society
1999 – 2001
Research associate at the University of California Santa Cruz - US
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS Since 1998, I supervised 13 Postdocs, 6 of them obtained a permanent position in research, one was awarded with the 2017 L’Oréal Fundation Fellowship for Women in Science. I supervised 7 PhD students, one awarded with the Springer Thesis Prize (C.Schreiber), and mentored 4 Master students. TEACHING ACTIVITIES 2005 – 2016 – 2017 2013 2013
In charge of the “Galaxy Evolution” course at the Graduate School of Astronomy & Astrophysics of Paris (15h, master M2 level, http://david.elbaz3.free.fr/coursJ1.html) Classes at the College de France: “Red sequence and blue cloud or the Hubble sequence” & “Starbursts and active nuclei” Class on the “Overview of galaxies, cosmological evolution” at the School on Exploiting the Herschel and Planck data Master class on “Star formation in galaxies” at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences
Commissariat à l’énergie atomique - Centre de Saclay CEA Saclay/DRF/IRFU/DAp – Orme des Merisiers Bât. 709 - 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex - France Tél : 33 - 1 69 08 54 39 - Fax : 33 - 1 69 08 65 77
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ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS Since 2007, I have co-organized 7 international conferences (Sesto 2015,16,17; Orsay 2016; Paris 2014; Grèce 2008,13) and I have been member of the science committees of 6 international conferences (Xining China 2007; Cyprus 2013; Paris France 2013, 2017; ESA-ESTEC 2014; Leiden The Netherlands 2017). INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES CEA: Since 2008, I am an expert on the field of Astronomy for the Direction of Fundamental Research of CEA and since 2016, I am the Head of the Astrophysics Segment of CEA. Paris-Saclay University: Since 2013, I am member of the Department of Planet and Universe Sciences (SPU) steering committee and elected member of the university Academic Senate. Since 2016, I am member of the pilot committee of the Pascal Institute and elected member of the Academic council. At national & international levels: 2013 – Member of the Euclid France steering committee 2013 Member of the French National Agency for Research (ANR) committee COMMISSIONS OF TRUST Advisory boards and committees 2015 – 2016 President of the International Space Advisory Board for the SPICA satellite for the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) 2015 – Member of the Science Advisory Board (SAB) for the Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project (HELP, EC FP7-SPACE project) 2014 – Member of the CCSU (consultative commission of university specialists) sections CNU 29 (nuclear & particle physics) et 34 (astrophysics) for the Paris-Sud University 2013 – 2016 Member of the Herschel Users Group (HUG) for the European Space Agency (ESA) Academic Committees 2010 – 2017 Evaluator of 11 PhD thesis & 6 HDR (highest qualification in France) Time Allocation Committees 2015 Reviewer for East Asian Observatory (EAO) on JCMT large survey proposals 2001 – 2005 TAC member (2001 – 2005), head of the TAC (2004 – 2005), as well as member of the Science Advisory Committee (2004 – 2005) of the Canada France Hawaii Telescope. 2004 Member of the TAC for the Spitzer Space Telescope Referee for the attribution of research projects funding & fellowship or prize attribution 2015 Member of the committee for the Science Prize of the La Recherche magazine 2014 – I refereed project research for the following institutions: Italian Space Agency (ASI), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Swedish National Space Board (SNSB), Estonian Science Foundation (ESF), Indo French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (CEFIPRA), Poland National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki - NCN), South Africa National Research Foundation (NRF), Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). 2007 Member of the selection committee for the Spitzer Fellowship. 2005 – Referee for the French National Agency for Research (ANR) committee. PUBLICATIONS • 23 refereed publications led as first author or by my PhD student with a total of 3,278 citations • 250 refereed publications, more than 22,000 citations • Hersch (h) factor = 80 (ADS), 24 papers with >200 citations, 7 papers with >500 citations MAJOR COLLABORATIONS 2005 – Co-coordinator of the Euclid science working group (SWG) on galaxy and AGN evolution 2012 – 2015 Co-I of the ESA key program CANDELS-Herschel (193.6 hours, PI M.Dickinson) 2010 – 2015 PI of the ESA large program and collaboration GOODS-Herschel (361.3 hours), 39 astronomers from 8 different countries, ESO and ESA. 2010 – 2015 Co-I of the Herschel guaranteed time extragalactic survey consortia PEP (PACS Evolutionary Probe) and HerMES (the Herschel multi-tiered extragalactic survey). 2/2
