Curriculum Vitae

Academic Career

Since 2016 University of Geneva, Switzerland
Assistant Professor (SNF Research Group)
2013-2016 Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, New Haven, USA
YCAA Prize Fellowship
2010-2013 UC Santa Cruz, UCO/Lick Observatory, USA
Hubble Fellowship
2010 PhD in Physics; ETH Zurich, Switzerland
“13 Gyr of Galaxy Evolution”; Advisor: Prof. C. Marcella Carollo
2006-2010 ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Research and Teaching Assistant
2006 Masters in Physics; ETH Zurich, Switzerland
“The faint-end slope of the z~5 UV Luminosity Function”
2004-2006 ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Teaching Assistant

Fellowships and Awards

2013 YCAA Fellowship
2010 Hubble Fellowship
2010 ETH Medal for outstanding PhD Thesis
2009 ETH Extragalactic Astrophysics Excellence Award

Select PI Observing Programs

“Physical Properties of Lyman Continuum Emitter Candidates at z~2-3”
VLT/Xshooter programs 099.A-0758 and 0101.A-0543
22 hrs VLT spectroscopy

“The GOODS UV Legacy Fields: A Full Census of Faint Star-Forming Galaxies at z~0.5-2”
Hubble Space Telescope, Cycle 22, GO-13872
132 orbit, Large WFC3/UVIS Treasury Survey

“A Spectroscopic Redshift for the Most Luminous Galaxy Candidate at z~10”
Hubble Space Telescope, Cycle 22, GO-13871
12 orbit, WFC3/IR grism observations

“The ultra-deep IRAC Legacy over GOODS: From the Earliest Galaxies to the Peak of Cosmic Star-Formation”
Spitzer Space Telescope, Cycle 10, PID: 10076
Exploration Science Program (200 hr + 612 hr)

Community and Professional Services

2009 - now Referee for ApJ, ApJL, MNRAS, MNRAS-Letters, A&A
2019 SOC member, Subaru Telescope's 20th Anniversary Conference
2019 SOC member, Extremely Big Eyes on the Early Universe, Rome Edition
2019 Co-organizer and SOC member of EWASS Special Symposium "Extragalactic UV astronomy: challenges and future prospects"
2018 SOC member, EWASS Special Symposium: Exploring the high-redshift Universe in advance of JWST
2017 Co-chair of SOC, EWASS Special Symposium: Unraveling the first billion years with next-generation observatories and modeling
2016 Co-chair of SOC, The Reionization Epoch: New Insights and Future Prospects, at the Aspen Center for Physics
2015 Co-chair Hubble Space Telescope TAC
2013 Panel Member Hubble Space Telescope TAC
2013 Referee for CFHT time allocation of Taiwan
2012 PhD thesis committee member for Valentino Gonzalez, UCSC
Publications