{"id":8,"date":"2012-04-26T17:22:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T21:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmic.erdd.us\/jgirard\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2015-02-06T16:46:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T20:46:50","slug":"who-am-i","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cosmicdiary.org\/jgirard\/who-am-i\/","title":{"rendered":"About Julien"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julien Girard<\/b><\/a>\u00a0is a Paranal Operations Staff Astronomer who joined the European Southern Observatory (ESO<\/a>) in 2009. Adaptive Optics<\/strong> (AO) specialist, he’s the\u00a0Instrument Scientist (IS)\u00a0of VLT\/NACO<\/a>\u00a0& \u00a0SPHERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Julien<\/a>

Julien Girard at the VLT console<\/p><\/div>\n

His main research interests are: star & planet formation<\/strong>, faint companions search\u00a0and characterization (brown dwarfs & extra-solar planets and the disks where they usually form), close and\u00a0dusty environment of young and\/or massive stars, etc.\u00a0\u00a0For that, Julien uses\u00a0high angular & high contrast imaging techniques<\/strong>\u00a0extensively, mainly in\u00a0the\u00a0infrared\u00a0and from the ground. Also interested in the time-domain, he participates to campaign to measure extrasolar planet atmospheres\u00a0via transits and occultations. He obtained a master’s degree in Instrumentation Physics from the University of Utah<\/a> in 2000, a 2nd one in\u00a0Astrophysics (UJF<\/a>\/IPAG<\/a>, Grenoble) the next year and his PhD in 2005<\/strong> (UCBL<\/a>\/Observatoire de Lyon<\/a>) for his contribution to the polychromatic laser guide star project\u00a0ELPOA.\u00a0Before ESO, he spent 3 years in Mexico City as a postdoctoral fellow at IA<\/a>–UNAM<\/a>\u00a0and as assistant professor at IPN<\/a>\/ESFM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Julien enjoys participating to public outreach activities and is one of the\u00a0ESO Photo Ambassadors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can follow Julien on twitter (@djulik<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Julien Girard\u00a0is a Paranal Operations Staff Astronomer who joined the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in 2009. Adaptive Optics (AO) specialist, he’s the\u00a0Instrument Scientist (IS)\u00a0of VLT\/NACO\u00a0& \u00a0SPHERE. [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":160,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicdiary.org\/jgirard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicdiary.org\/jgirard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicdiary.org\/jgirard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicdiary.org\/jgirard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicdiary.org\/jgirard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicdiary.org\/jgirard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicdiary.org\/jgirard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicdiary.org\/jgirard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicdiary.org\/jgirard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}