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Academic CV - Dr. Florent Renaud
Current positions
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Docent (associate professor) Lund Observatory, Sweden |
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Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (USIAS) Strasbourg University, France |
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Director of the Master program in Astrophysics (in charge of recruitment of students, organization of master projects, coordination of the courses, monitoring of the student's progress, student's career development, social activities, chair of the evaluation committees) Lund University, Sweden |
| ⦁ | Vice-president of the International Astronomy Union commission Stellar clusters throughout Cosmic Space and Time (elected in June 2021) |
Past research experience
| 2022 |
Invited researcher (1 month) Observatoire de Paris, France |
| 2014-2017 |
Postdoc fellow (3 years) University of Surrey, Guildford, UK |
| 2011-2014 |
Postdoc fellow (3.5 years) Service d'Astrophysique, CEA-Saclay, Paris, France |
| 2010 |
Visiting fellow (3 months) Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 2007-2010 |
PhD Student (3 years) Institut für Astronomie of Vienna, Austria Observatoire de Strasbourg, France |
| 2007 |
Research assistant (6 months) NASA Herschel Science Center, IPAC, Caltech - Pasadena, USA |
| 2005 |
Research assistant (2 months) Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, France |
Education
| 2022 |
Docent (equivalent to Privatdozent or Habiliation à diriger des recherches) Lund University, Sweden |
| 2007-2010 |
PhD Thesis: Dynamics of the tidal fields & formation of star clusters in galaxy mergers. Titles of Doctor rerum naturalium and Doctor Philosopiae in Astrophysics Universität Wien (Austria) and Université de Strasbourg (France) Supervisors: Christian Theis (Vienna) and Christian Boily (Strasbourg) |
| 2006-2007 | Master in Astrophysics, Université de Strasbourg |
| 2004-2007 |
Engineering degree, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Strasbourg (Strasbourg) (Three-years course in physics, signal processing, IT, automation, electronics and management.) |
Publications & talks
73 refereed papers, including 21 as first author, 13 as second author, and 14 by students under my supervision.
h-index = 31
i-10 index = 56
See my publication list.
141 talks, including 39 as invited speaker, 42 contributed, and 60 seminars and colloquia.
See my talk list.
Teaching
Lecturer
| 2020-present |
Topics in theoretical Astrophysics, Lund University PhD level |
| 2019-present |
Extragalactic astrophysics, Lund University Master level |
| 2018-present |
Computational astrophysics, Lund University Master level |
| 2017-present |
Galaxies and Cosmology, Lund University Bachelor level (course responsible) |
Invited lecturer
| 2021 |
International Summer School on the Interstellar Medium of Galaxies, from the Epoch of Reionization to the Milky Way, Banyuls, France (online) Summer school for PhD students |
| 2017 |
Instabilities and wave propagation in galaxies, Collège de France, Paris Part of a lecture series on Galactic dynamics |
| 2016 |
Galaxy and star formation, European Doctoral School, Strasbourg, France Summer school for PhD students |
| 2014 |
Multi-wavelength astrophysics in the data avalanche era, Strasbourg, France Winter school for PhD students |
Other
| 2012-2014 |
Scientific supervisor/advisor for several high school projects How does a satellite remain in orbit? ; Why is the sky blue? (Rayleigh scattering) ; Stellar evolution ; Astronomy in the middle ages |
| 2009 |
Tutoring Introduction to simulations of merging galaxies, Vienna, Austria Master and PhD levels |
Student supervision
PhD
| 2021-2024 |
Niels Nieuwmunster, Lund University, Sweden; Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, France (co-supervised with N. Ryde and M. Schultheis) The densest stellar systems of the Universe: the nuclear disc (3 years) |
| 2020-2024 |
Álvaro Segovia Otero, Lund University, Sweden (co-supervised with O. Agertz) Cosmic evolution of star formation (4 years) |
| 2018-2022 |
Eric Andersson, Lund University, Sweden (co-supervised with O. Agertz) Cosmological assembly of galaxies like the Milky Way (4 years) |
| 2014-2018 |
Nicolas Guillard, ESO, Garching, Germany (co-supervised with E. Emsellem) Growth and fuelling of galactic nuclei (4 years) |
| 2014-2017 |
Jeremy Fensch, CEA-Saclay, France (co-supervised with P.-A. Duc) Star and stellar cluster formation in gas-dominated galaxies (3 years) |
| 2011-2014 |
Katarina Kraljic, CEA-Saclay, France (co-supervised with F. Bournaud) Links between galaxy evolution, morphology and internal physical processes (3 years) |
Master, Bachelor
| 2022 |
Anatole Storck, Lund University, Sweden Star formation under (ram) pressure (6 months) |
| 2022-2023 |
John Ringdahl, Lund University, Sweden The recipe for star formation (1.5 years) |
| 2022 |
Anna-Maria Söderman, Lund University, Sweden On the run: how fast can runaway stars escape from their home clusters? (5 months) |
| 2021-2022 |
Jonathan Petersson, Lund University, Sweden Colliding galaxies in a (nut)shell (1.5 years) |
| 2021 |
Erik Fridén, Lund University, Sweden Observing stellar streams made in a supercomputer (5 months) |
| 2020-2021 |
Oscar Andersson, Lund University, Sweden How to resuscitate a dead galaxy? (1.5 years) |
| 2020 |
Jesper Nielsen, Lund University, Sweden Extreme star forming galaxies (2 months) |
| 2019-2020 |
Mateo Prgomet, Lund University, Sweden (co-supervised with O. Agertz) Initial mass function and galaxy evolution (1.5 years) |
| 2018-2019 |
Samhitha Vadlamani, Lund University, Sweden Hydrodynamics of compact groups (1.5 years) |
| 2018-2019 |
Lina Warntoft, Lund University, Sweden Dynamical evolution of star clusters (5 months) |
| 2018 |
Loke Lönnblad Ohlin, Lund University, Sweden (co-supervised with O. Agertz) Propagation of feedback in turbulent media (6 months) |
| 2014 |
Paolo Bianchini, ISIMA program, Toronto, Canada Star Clusters in Galactic Cores (6 weeks) |
| 2008 |
Gabriel Padilla, Strasbourg, France (co-supervised with C. Bot) Dust and starburst in mergers (2 months) |
Outreach, popularization
| Since 2015 | Several inter-disciplinary talks given on big data, HPC and data visualization |
| Since 2013 |
Several press releases written Interviews given to the press and TV Large coverage on French and German national TV, French and Swedish national press, international specialized press and internet (Arte, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Astronomy Magazine, Ciel et Espace, La Recherche, CNRS International Magazine ...) |
| 2022 |
Outreach presenter in a space summer camp (high school level, 2 August 2022) Rymdforskarskolan (The Space Research School), Lund |
| 2019 |
Invited public presentation (28 March 2019) ALVA association, Lund |
| 2014 |
Invited public presentation (16 June 2014) Kiosque Citoyen, Rennes |
| 2013 | Production of a film from my simulations for the Vienna Planetarium | 2008 |
Public presentation (8 November 2008) Long night of science 2008 (Lange Nacht der Forschung 2008), Vienna |
| 2008 |
Invited public presentation (29 January 2008) Astronomy club of the ENSPS, Strasbourg |
Granted proposals: supercomputers
Total of 336.1 million CPU-hours (222.1 as PI), and 320,000 GPU-hours (all as PI) on tier-0 supercomputers:
| 2023 | CoI of a SNIC project: 2 Mh, Tetralith supercomputer |
| CoI of a SNIC project: 2 Mh, Tetralith supercomputer | |
| 2022 | PI of a SNIC project: 2 Mh, Tetralith supercomputer |
| 2021 | PI of a SNIC/EuroHPC project: 150 Mh, Lumi supercomputer (Pilot phase) |
| 2021 | PI of a SNIC project: 2M hours, Tetralith supercomputer |
| 2020 | CoI of a PRACE project: 45M hours, Irene supercomputer |
| PI of a SNIC project: 2.3M hours, Tetralith supercomputer | |
| 2019 | PI of a SNIC project: 1M hours, Aurora supercomputer |
| CoI of a SNIC project: 2.6M hours, Aurora supercomputer | |
| CoI of a GENCI project: 3.8M hours, Irene supercomputer | |
| 2018 | PI of a SNIC project: 1Mh, Aurora supercomputer |
| CoI of a GENCI project: 5.3M hours on the Curie, Occigen and Irene supercomputers | |
| 2017 | PI of a PRACE project: 15.1M hours on the Marconi KNL supercomputer |
| CoI of a GENCI project: 15.8M hours on the Curie and Occigen supercomputers | |
| 2016 | PI of a GENCI project (exceptional call): 6.4M hours on the Curie supercomputer |
| CoI of a GENCI project: 11.6M hours on the Curie supercomputer | |
| 2015 | PI of a PRACE project: 21.8M hours on the Curie supercomputer |
| CoI of a PRACE project: 16.2M hours on the Curie supercomputer | |
| 2014 | CoI of a GENCI project: 3M hours on the Curie supercomputer |
| 2013 | PI of a PRACE project: 8.5M hours on the SuperMUC supercomputer |
| CoI of a GENCI project: 3M hours on the Curie supercomputer | |
| 2012 | PI of a GENCI project: 240,000 hours on the hybrid nodes (CPU+GPU) of the Curie supercomputer |
| CoI of a GENCI project: 2.9M hours on the Curie supercomputer | |
| 2011 | PI of a PRACE project: 12M hours (9M, extended to 12M) on the Curie supercomputer |
| PI of a Grand Challenge: 80,000 hours on the hybrid nodes (CPU+GPU) of the Curie supercomputer |
Granted proposals: telescopes
| 2022 | Co-I of a FAST project: 21.9 hours (PI: C. Cheng) |
| Co-I of a CFHT/MegaCam project (DDT): 3.9 hours (PI: M. Arabsalmani) | |
| 2020 | Co-I of a FAST project: 22.4 hours (PI: C. Xu) |
| 2019 | Co-I of a NOEMA project: 60 hours (PI: N. Tomicic) |
| 2016 | Co-I of a HST/WFC3 project: 8 orbits (PI: P.-A. Duc) |
| 2015 | Co-I of a NOEMA project: 32.3 hours (PI: A. Hughes) |
| Co-I of a MUSE project: 21 hours (PI: A. Adamo) |
Awards, grants, fellowships
| ⦁ | 2023 - Institute for Advanced Studies Fellowship (USIAS), Université de Strasbourg |
| ⦁ | 2020 - Best talk award: Linking the galactic and extragalactic conference |
| ⦁ | 2020 - Research grant of the Walter Gyllenberg Foundation |
| ⦁ | 2018 - Research grant of the Walter Gyllenberg Foundation |
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Prix La Recherche 2015 - Astrophysics Renaud et al. (2014) awarded best outstanding and original work in Astrophysics |
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Several visiting fellowships and travel grants since 2007 (about 60,000 Euros in total) |
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Humboldt Foundation Junior Fellowship (2011) Declined |
Services
| ⦁ | Expert for national and international funding agencies (Europe, Chile, Czech Republic, France, The Netherlands, Poland, UAE, UK) |
| ⦁ | Reviewer for A&A, ApJ(L), MNRAS(L), Nature Astronomy, PASJ |
| ⦁ | Examiner of Bachelor, Master, and PhD theses |
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Conference organization ○ Formation of the Galactic center, Ringberg (26-30 October 2020, postponed), SOC ○ Star-forming clumps and clustered starbursts across cosmic time, Munich (October 2020, postponed to 2022), Chair ○ Assembly of the Milky Way, Strasbourg (10-12 June 2020, postponed to 2023), Chair ○ Survival of Dense Star Clusters in the Milky Way System, Heidelberg (19-23 November 2018), SOC ○ Ramses User Meeting, Saclay (25-28 June 2014), LOC ○ Antennae Workshop, Strasbourg (1-3 March 2009), Chair ○ JENAM, Vienna (8-12 September 2008), LOC ○ Galactic and Stellar Dynamics, Strasbourg (16-20 March 2008), LOC |
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Founder and organizer ○ South East Galaxy Network, Surrey, UCL, MSSL (2015-2017) ○ Lunch seminars, Surrey (2015-2017) ○ Weekly Extragalactic Theoretical Journal Club, Vienna (2009-2010) |