Present position
Scientific collaborator at Geneva Observatory.
Coordinator of millimeter projects (IRAM, ALMA).
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Scientific interests
Millimeter Astronomy:
search for molecular gas in cold and low excited media: CO surveys in High-
Velocity Clouds and in external regions of disks of nearby spiral galaxies; search for CO in lensed
Lyman break galaxies.
High-redshift galaxies:
high-resolution optical spectroscopy of high-redshift galaxies (Lyman Break
galaxies, damped Lyα systems): chemical evolution, interstellar medium studies; nucleosynthesis
in the young Universe; variation of fundamental constants.
Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs):
search for observational signatures of GRB progenitors; study of the
GRB host galaxies at high- and low-redshift; interstellar medium analysis of the GRB host
galaxies; GRB intervening material.
Projects
- Concept study of CODEX - COsmic Dynamics and EXoplanet spectrograph on the E-ELT
- Herschel Open Time Key Project - The Herschel Lensing Survey
Address
Observatoire de Genève
51, ch. des Maillettes
CH-1290 Versoix
Switzerland
Phone (direct) : +41.22.379.23.69
Fax : +41.22.379.22.05
E-mail : Miroslava.Dessauges@unige.ch