| Franck Marchis, Ph.D. | |||
| Address:SETI Institute Carl Sagan Center 189 Bernardo Av Mountain View, CA 94043, USA |
Phone:+1 650 810 0236 Twitter: @AllPlanetEmail: fmarchis@seti.org website: http://www.seti.org/fmarchis |
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| Planetary Science & Astronomy | Instrumentation | Outreach & Education | |
Professional experience
| March 2014 – Present | Senior AO Application Scientists at Iris AO, Berkeley (CA, US) |
| December 2013 – Present | Senior Research Scientist at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute (CA, US)Science Outreach Manager at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute (CA, US) |
| November 2012 – November 2013 | Senior Research Scientist at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute (CA, US)Media and Science Liaison at the SETI Institute (CA, US) |
| July 2007 – November 2012 | Research Scientist at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute (CA, US) |
| June 2003 – June 2011 | Assistant Research Astronomer at the Department of Astronomy of UC Berkeley (CA, US) Group leader: Prof James Graham (2010-2011), Prof. Imke de Pater (2003-2009) |
| November 2000 — May 2003 | Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Astronomy of UC Berkeley (CA, US) Advisor: Prof. Imke de Pater The potential of 8-10m class AO for planetary science |
| November 1998 — September 2000 | “Ph.D. Student” fellowship at ESO-Santiago (Chile)Supervisor: CNRS director R. Prangé The potential of ADONIS Adaptive Optics system for planetary science |
| June 1997 — October 1998 | “Cooperant” at ESO-La Silla 3.6m team (Chile) Supervisors: R. Prangé and R. Gredel Support astronomer for ADONIS AO system. |
| April 1997 — June 1997 | Lab Assistant department of Physics and Astronomy of the University College London (UK)Supervisor: Prof. S. MillerIRTF/SPEX Jovian aurora images |
| July 1996 — January 1997 | Research Assistant at Instituto de Astronomia at UNAM Mexico city (Mexico)Supervisor: S. CuevasImage quality of segmented large telescopes with AO |
Employment eligibility in the US: US citizen
Academic background
| October 2000 | Université P. Sabatier | Doctorat de l’Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France) Ecole Doctorale “Science de l’Univers, de l’Environnement et de l’Espace” Imagerie à haute résolution angulaire des objets du système solaire en Optique Adaptative. Application à l’étude du volcanisme de Io. (equ. to PhD. in Astrophysics) |
| June 1996 | Université P. Sabatier | DEA de Planétologie et Techniques Spatiales with honors (equ. to Master’s Degree in Astrophysics) |
| June 1995 | Université P. Sabatier | Maitrise de Physique – science de l’univers with honors (equ. to B.Sc. Physical Sciences) |
Achievements
- Awards:
o Recipient of one of the 2004 Grants in Honor of Professor Henri Chretien (AAS, 2004)
o In 2007, the asteroid (6639) was named Marchis in honor of his discovery of the first triple asteroid system (87 Sylvia)
- Selected research Grants:
o Principal Investigator (PI) of two PAST-NASA grants Exploration of Multiple Asteroid Systems (2005-present)
o PI CfAO-NSF & AAG-NSF grants New generation AO system to Study Solar System Bodies, (2007-2013)
o PI of NASA-KPAC grants Multiplicity in the Trojan Swarms (2005 & 2007) and NASA-Spitzer SED of multiple asteroids
o Co-Investigator of HST-GO Internal structure of asteroids & NASA-OPR Io Volcanism (2006-2012)
o Co-Investigator of SOFIA Cycle-1 Uncovering the surface composition of the largest main-belt asteroids with FORCAST (2013)
- Current Commitments:
o Member of the science definition team for the TMT planetary science (since Oct 2013)
o External Scientist of the Pan-STARRS consortium (since Nov 2012)
o Member of the science teams: ERIS ESO next gen AO system (since 2011), NGAO Keck next generation AO system (since 2006), Gemini Planet Imager (since 2004) & Keck AO working group (since 2003)
o Leader of communication of GPI-ES imaging and characterization of exoplanets using the GPI extreme-AO instrument (2010-present)
o Co-PI of FIRST@Lick, a fibered-imager built at Obs. de Paris and tested at Lick Obs., soon at Subaru Telescope (2010-present)
o PI of numerous observation programs to study asteroids (multiplicity, shape, composition) with 8-10m class telescopes (Keck, VLT, Gemini) and mid-size telescopes (IRTF, Lick,…) (2001-present)
o PI of Origami NanoSat Telescopes: Astronomy’s Future Unfolds (2013-present)
o PI of Asteroids3D: Shape Reconstruction of Asteroids from Pan-STARRS data (2013-present)
o Blogger and editor for the Cosmic Diary for the International Year of Astronomy and beyond (2009-present)
o Member of the Observation Proposal Committee of the European Southern Observatory (2008 & 2009)
o Leader of International Outer Planet Watch, division satellite discipline (2003-2013)
o Affiliated Astronomer at IMCCE-Obs. de Paris since June 2003
o Reviewer for ~50 articles submitted to referee journals (Icarus, A&A, Science) and textbooks since 2001
o Session convener at AGU Fall Meeting in 2011 “Exploration and Evolution of Asteroids”, in 2012 “Internal Structure & Composition of Asteroids” & “Planetary Evolution and the Fate of Planetary Habitability”, and again in 2013
o Editor at PLOS Journals since February 2013
Fields of expertise
- Scientific activity:
o Multiple asteroids in the solar system: search & study of known multiple systems, size, shape, internal structure, surface properties and formation.
o Volcanic Activity of Io: monitoring, nature and composition of the lava
o Problem of deconvolution for high angular resolution images in astronomy and in fluorescence microscopic images
o Meetings (GPI in 2010-2013), workshops (Io in 2008, Enceladus in 2011) and conferences (Lyot Conference in 2007, SETICON2 in 2012)
o Search for low mass companions with classical and extreme AO
- Instrumentation Astronomy:
o Solar System body exploration with Adaptive Optics on 8-10m class telescopes and future giant telescopes (TMT, E-ELT)
o Photometric observations and astrometry of asteroids in optical.
o Fibered imager for astronomy and its potential for astronomy
o General knowledge of the AO systems technologies, from theory to their applications
o Support astronomer on the ESO AO system for more than 200 nights (1997-2000)
- Teaching & science outreach activities:
o Social media expert for my research activity (Klout score ~64)
o Lecturer for the course entitled “Astro 12 – The Planets ” at UC-Berkeley summer sessions 2003-2005
o Supervision of ~20 undergraduate students at UC-Berkeley (URAP) linked with research topics of our group (2003-2011)
o Supervision of undergraduate students for CfAO Summer internship program (2004) and the SETI Summer program (since 2007)
o Writer of several press releases (1-3 per year since 2001) related to my research and for the SETI Institute
o Conferences and courses to amateur astronomer clubs and education centers in English, Spanish & French
- Computer science:
o Program development in IDL (data processing, analysis, simulation, deconvolution)
o Good skills in Shell UNIX, MySQL, PHP and Python
o Website development with Joomla & WordPress
o Coding in ASM6800, ASM6502
- Memberships:
o American Astronomical Society since 2009
o AAS-Division of Planetary Sciences since 2000
o American Geophysical Union since 2003
- Languages:
– French: native language
– English: fluent
– Spanish: fluent
– Czech: notion
