• Contact information

• IMCCE, 77 Av. Denfert Rochereau
  
  75014 Paris, FRANCE
• tel: +33140512264
• fax: +33140512058
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• The Vaubaillon asteroid, kindly named by Francois Colas ;-)

• A few pictures to begin

• The 2011 Draconids observation campaign
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• Observation of the 2008 Aurigid meteor outburst at NASA/AMES
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• Observation of the 2008 Quadrantids meteor outburst at NASA/AMES
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• Me taking advantage of the flight suit ;-)
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• Children drawing after a lecture on astronomy. The caption says: "The scientist likes to watch the meteors because they shine". Interestingly there is a lot of truth in that statement! Obviously that's not the only reason though ;-)
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• Observation of the 2002 Leonid meteor storm from the Bohyunsan observatory, South Korea (Many thanks to the whole staff for their warm welcome!)

Additional images and animations from the PoDET-MET project

• Current projects

  • 2011 Draconids international multi-airborne observation campaign
  • the CAmera for BEtter Resolution NETwork (CABERNET / PODET-MET)

• Research topics

  • Dynamics of meteoroids in the Solar system
  • meteoroid streams and meteor showers
  • Non-gravitionalal forces in the Solar System
  • comet outgasing process and comet brakeup process
  • Near Earth Objects

• Resume (last update Apr. 2012)

• Thesis

  • Title :Dynamics of meteoroids in the Solar System ; application to the forecastings of the Leonids meteor shower
  • Full text (in French):here
  • Date of defense :29th Oct. 2003 at Paris Observatory
  • Jury :
    • David Asher, Armagh Observatory (referee)
    • Peter Jenniskens, NASA/AMES (referee)
    • Bruno Sicardy, Université Paris VI (president)
    • William Thuillot, IMCCE (director)
    • François Colas, IMCCE (director)
    • Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd, Université Paris VI (invited)
    • Jacques Foliard, CNES (invited)
    • Laurent Jorda, LAM (invited)
    • Margaret Campbell-Brown, ESA/ESTEC (invited)

• Reseach trips and Post-Docs :

  • Oct. 2012: PI of the 2011 Draconids airborne observation campaign over Scandinavia
  • Jan 2011: Observation of comet 17P/Holmes and 596 Sheila with Ishiguro-san at the Subaru (8m class) telescope, Mauna Kea, Hawaii
  • Oct 2009 and Feb-March 2010: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, Japan (kindly invited by J, Watanabe-san)
  • May 2006 -Dec 2008 : CALTECH, USA (Post-doc, kindly invited by B. Reach)
  • April 2006 : IMCCE, Paris, France
  • January and March 2006 : Armagh Observatory, Irlande du Nord, UK (kindly invited by A. Christou)
  • February 2006 : LAM, Marseille, France
  • January - Dec 2005 : University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada(Post-Doc, kindly invited by P. Brown)
  • Aug. - Dec 2004 : SETI Institue, USA (CA) (Post-doc, kindly invited by P. Jenniskens)
  • May - June 2004 : LAM (Marseille) (kindly invited by P. Lamy & L. Jorda)
  • Mar - Apr 2004 : Armagh Observatory, N.Ireland
  • Jan - Apr 2004 : IMCCE

• Publications:

  • List of refereed articles: this link
  • List of all papers: here

• Referee :

  
  I have been referee for the following journals, books and organizations:
  
  • Icarus
  • MNRAS
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • The Astronomical Journal
  • Planetary and Space Science
  • Earth, Moon and Planets
  • Advances in Space Research
  • New Astronomy
  • Proceedings of the COSPAR conference
  • Planetary Data System Galileo and Ulysses dust detector
  • Czech Science foundation (GACR)
  • Meteor showers and their parent bodies, P. Jenniskens, (SETI Institute/NASA-AMES, San Francisco, USA), Cambridge University Press, 2006 (~ 600 pages)
  • Meteors and meteor showers, P. Bias, Miracle, 2006 (238 pages)

• Scientific Collaborations:

  • Regina Rudawska (postdoc at IMCCE)
  • Sylvain Bouley (postdoc at IMCCE)
  • Prakash Atreya (Post-doc at IMCCE)
  • François Colas, Fred Vachier, William Thuillot, Jérome Berthier (IMCCE)
  • David Asher, Apostolos Christou & Mark Bailey (Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland, UK)
  • Bill Reach (CALTECH)
  • Peter Jenniskens (NASA/AMES - SETI)
  • Peter & Margarett (Campbell)-Brown, Paul Wiegert, Rob. Weryk (University of Western Ontario)
  • J. Watanabe, M. Sato, Shun Horii (NAOJ, Japan)
  • Rob. Jedicke, M. Granvik (IfA, HI, USA)
  • Esko Lyytinen & Markku Nissinen (Finlande)
  • Rainer Arlt (IMO, Germany)
  • J.M. Trigo-Rodrigez (SPMN, Spain)
  • Laurent Jorda et Phillipe Lamy (LAM), Jean Duprat & Cécile Engrand (CSNSM)
  • Franck Selsis, A.C. Levasseur-Regourd, Bruno Sicardy (France)
  • D. Koschny, O. Witasse (ESA, ESTEC)
  • Fernand Alby (CNES), R. Jehn (ESA)
  • M. Lemmon (Texas A & M University), J. Bell (Cornell), NASA/MER team, P. Withers (Boston U.)
  • and more...

• Popularization of science:

  • Guide of Paris observatory
  • Many conferences for the public
  • Many articles in public journals
  • Participation to TV and radio interviews and events

• Hobbies :

  • Travel
  • Ireland
  • Guitar, tin and low whistle