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 |