RESUME
Assistant Professor of Physics
2022-
City University of New York, NY, USA
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Cluster-filament interface (NSF funded)
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Evolution of dwarfs in their environment (LSSTC funded)
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Supervision of postdocs, graduate students and undergraduates
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Teaching of undergraduate courses in Physics
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Design and Teaching of graduate courses in Astrophysics
Postdoctoral Fellow
2020-2022
Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA
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Predictions for JWST and preparation of Cycle 1 program
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Design of high-resolution simulation of clusters
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Study of dwarf satellites around simulated. analogs of local galaxies
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Supervision of students Madhani and Wroblewski
Herschel Fellow
December 2018-2020
McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
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Work on satellites in groups and clusters
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exploration of conductions model for AMR code RAMSES
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supervision of students Kotecha and Zhou
Jim Buckee Fellow
November 2015-November 2018
ICRAR, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia.
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Mocks for the SAMI and Hector IFS surveys
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Preparation of Hector Surveys
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Analysis of the cosmic web in large-volume simulations
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supervision of students Canas, Li, Qin and Hackett
PhD in Astrophysics
2012 - 2015.
Sorbonne University, Paris, France
supervisors: Christophe Pichon and Julien Devriendt
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performing a numerical study of the comparative effect of wet and dry mergers on galactic morphologies
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performed the post-treatment and statistical analysis of a state-of-the-art AMR cosmological simulation run with RAMSES
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good theoretical training in galactic dynamics and constrained random fields generation.
ASTR 77000/ PHYS 85200 - Galaxies
CUNY Graduate Centre, NY, USA
2023 -
Curriculum design and Instructor
PHYS 1441 - General Physics I
CUNY City Tech, NY, USA
2022- 2023
Instructor for lectures and labs.
Miscelleanous courses in Astronomy
McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
2018-2020
Joint Humanities-Science courses, Inquiry-based learning courses in Astronomy
Teaching Assistant in Physics/ Adjunct Lecturer
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, Paris, France
Sept 2012 -Sept 2015
• Practical and training courses for Bachelor’s and Master’s students in Physics.
• Courses in optics, mechanics, wave mechanics, mathematics and computer science (Mathematica)
Agregation, Physics major
July, 2012
highly competitive higher education teaching award in physics
Research
experience
Teaching
Experience
Computational Skills
Fortran, Python, Yorick, IDL
Mathematica
Astro : RAMSES, MUSIC, MPGraphic, DisPerSe, HaloMaker,VelociRAPTOR
Languages
French : native
English: fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Network
member of the ANR Spin(e)
member of the AAS
member of the SAMI survey
Hector survey design team
member of the VERTICO survey
Education
PhD in Astrophysics
2012 - 2015
Sorbonne University, Paris, France
supervisors: Christophe Pichon and Julien Devriendt
Master of Science, (2 years) Theoretical Physics
2009 - 2011
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon 69007, France
magna cum laude
Bachelor of Science, Physics
2008 - 2009
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon 69007, France
magna cum laude
Classes preparatoires PCSI-PC*
2005 - 2008
(intensive preparation program to competitive entrance higher education schools)
Lycee Henri IV, Paris, FRANCE, 75005.
Admission to Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and Ecole Polytechnique.
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“Mergers drive spin swings along the cosmic web” , C. Welker, Y. Dubois, J. Devriendt, C. Pichon, S. Peirani, MNRAS, 2014
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“Dancing in the Dark: galactic properties trace spin swings along the cosmic web” Y. Dubois, C. Pichon, C. Welker et al. accepted in MNRAS, 2014
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“The comparative effects of smooth accretion and dry and wet mergers on the galactic morphologies”, C. Welker et al., MNRAS, 2017
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"Caught in the rhythm: satellite galaxies in the galactic plane", MNRAS, 2018
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"The SAMI survey: first detection of spin alignments with cosmic filaments in the kinematics of galaxies," MNRAS, 2020
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"Cosmic Filaments delay quenching inside clusters", submitted to MNRAS, 2022 (co-lead with student Kotecha)