Alexandre Beelen @ IAS

Present Occupation

• Assistant Astronomer (sep 2009-present)

  Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France

Research

• Post-doc in Astronomy (nov 2006-sep 2009)

  Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France
  Supervision: G. Lagache (IAS, Orsay) guilaine.lagache [at] ias.u-psud.fr

• Post-doc in Astronomy (2005-2006)

  Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
  Argelander-Institut für Astronomie der Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  Supervision: F. Bertoldi (AIfA, Bonn) bertoldi [at] astro.uni-bonn.de

• PhD in Astronomy (2001-2004)

  Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France
  Title of PhD-Thesis: 'Dust and gas in high redshift quasars.
  Advisors: P. Cox (IAS, Orsay) pierre.cox [at] ias.u-psud.fr

Education

• DEA in Dynamic of gravitational system (2000-2001)

  Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France
  (graduate studies - equivalent to first a year of PhD).
  Courses on general Astrophysics and specialization in galaxies and cosmology.
  Director : Ana Gomez (Obspm, Paris) ana.gomez [at] obspm.fr

• DEA in Theoretical Physics (1999-2000, defered)

  Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
  (graduate studies - equivalent to first a year of PhD).
  Courses on theoritical physics and specialization in particules physics.
  Director : François Delduc (ENS, Lyon)

• Maitrise in fondamental physics (1998-1999)

  Université de Versaille-Saint Quentin en Yvelines, Versailles, France
  (equivalent to master of science degree)

• Licence in fondamental physics (1997-1998)

  Université de Versaille-Saint Quentin en Yvelines, Versailles, France
  (equivalent to bachelor of science)

• Diplone d'étude Universitaire Général in physics (1995-1997)

  Université de Versaille-Saint Quentin en Yvelines, Versailles, France
  (equivalent to diploma of higher education)

• Baccalauréat scientifique specialization in physics (1995)

  Lycéée Hoche, Versaille, France

Experience

• Reviewer for MNRAS since 2006 (2 papers)
• Reviewer for A&A since 2005 (5 papers; 1 letter)

• SHARC-II observations & data reduction

  (3 runs - 2002-2006)

• VLA observations & data reduction

  (1 project - 2003)

• 30-m observing pool

  (winters 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2006-2007, 2009-2010)
  experience on MAMBO and heterodyne observations & data reduction.

• PdBI observations & data reduction

  (7 projects - 2001-2010)

• Optical data reduction (image substraction)

  theoretical microlensing light curves with the EROS team (CEA, Saclay, France)
  4 month - 2000

• Study on Surface perturbation on tilted liquid mirror

  with Ermanno F. Borra (Laval University , Quebec, Canada)
  3 month - 1999

Teaching

• assistant astronomer

  Image & Data Analysis

• teaching assistant

  the bolometric lectures
  IRAM Summer School 2005

• teaching assistant

  physics for first/third year university students
  waves, mechanics, dynamics / numerical simulation
  96 hours per year (2001-2004)

• teaching assistant

  physics for first year university students
  waves, mechanics, fluids mechanics (1998)

Computer Skills

• OS

  GNU/Linux (Debian;RedHat;Mandrake; Suse), Unix (HP-UX;OSF1), MS Win 9x/NT

• Prog. Lang.

  Python, C/C++, perl, sh, RSI IDL, XML/XSLT, (D/X)HTML, Php/MySQL, LATEX, F77/F90

Language

• French

  mother tongue

• English

  fluent

• German

  basic knowledge

Misc.

• Sport

  paragliding, diving, skydiving, hiking, rollerblade, skying

• Music

  piano, fine level classical formation