Nami Mowlavi

2021 - present
• Senior Researcher, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• ESA PLATO mission (exoplanet search), Office Manager for the Ground-Based Observations Programme

2017 - 2020
• Invited Professor, Beijing Normal University, China 

2007 - present
• Senior Researcher, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• ESA Gaia mission (all-sky 2 billion sources survey), responsible for the variability of  specific variable objects; Deputy Manager of Gaia Coordination Unit 7 of Variability Processing (2014-2020)

2000 - 2007
• Senior Researcher, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• ESA INTEGRAL mission (high-energy astrophysics), responsible for the near real-time detection and analysis of high-energy transients  

1995 - 1999
• Post-doctoral fellow, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Stellar evolution

1990 - 1995
• PhD student, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• Structural and chemical evolution of intermediate-mass stars

1987 - 1990
• Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Sciences, Université du Bénin, Togo
• Physics, Numerical methods

1995: PhD in astrophysics (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
"Structural and chemical evolution of intermediate-mass stars on the Asymptotic Giant Branch"

1987: Physicist Engineer (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

2021 - present: ESA PLATO mission - Terrestrial planet hunter

2007 - present: ESA Gaia mission - The one billion stars surveyor
Responsible for the analysis of specific variable objects (long-period variables, eclipsing binaries, transients, ...) within the Variability Processing Group in Geneva

2016 - 2018: International Space Science Institute - PI of the International team "The Fate of Binary Systems in the Gaia Era"

2007 - 2016: Geneva Open Clusters survey - Variable stars in Open Clusters

2000 - 2007: ESA INTEGRAL mission - The high-energy Universe
Responsible for the near-real-time science operations at the INTEGRAL Science Data Center

• (→ 2020) Stellar Variability (Graduate course, University of Geneva, given jointly with Dr. L. Eyer)
• Co-supervision of Master and PhD students (University of Geneva, and Beijing Normal University)

- Variable stars: pulsating stars, eclipsing binaries, transients, ...
- Stellar evolution
- Galactic and extra-galactic structures: stellar populations using pulsating stars as tracers

Observations experience
• Swiss 1.2m Euler telescope (La Silla, Chile; photometry and spectroscopy)
• Flemish 1.2m Mercator telescope (La Palma, Spain; photometry and spectroscopy)
• ESO’s 8.4m Very Large Telescope (Paranal, Chile; spectroscopy)

- Member of the International Astronomical Union
- Member of the European Astronomical Society
- Member of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy