Curriculum Vitae

Eric EMSELLEM

I was born in Bordeaux, which predestinated me to a strong taste for fermented grape juice. I moved with my family to different places in France, to finally end up in Paris. After my Baccalauréat, and some following Maths and Physics classes in the Quartier Latin , I obtained the right to rest and enjoy life in an engineering school in Lyon. Life then gave me the opportunity to run away from Solid Mechanics to prepare a specialisation in Astronomy at Cornell University (N. Y. state). Since then, I have been hopping from Paris to Lyon (France), to Leiden (The Netherlands) and Munich (Germany). I went back to the capital of Gaule and gastronomy for a job as a (second class) Astronomer in the roaring TIGER team. A few years ago I triggered the evolution towards what is now called the GALPAC team at the Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon. I became full Astronomer in 2006, and since returned to ESO Garching as Head of the Office for Science. My work has been focused on extragalactic objects, although I remember an infamous time when I dared to study Mars and Neptune. Fortunately for me, this was at the prehistorical time when the eye of the TIGER was still under the influence of mother Evolution. The poor beast became quickly extinct to be replaced by the successful TIGER 1.0 and its descendants (OASIS and SAURON), and I could thus switch to much larger (but still observable) scales.

Some Keywords:
• Galactic structure and dynamics: observations and modelling
• Early type galaxies
• Stellar populations
• 3D spectrography
• SAURON, ATLAS3D, MUSE, MANGA

Education

Present Responsabilities

• PI of the ATLAS project (with Cappellari, McDermid, Krajnovic)
• Co-I of the SAURON project (PIs: Bacon, Davies, de Zeeuw)
• Membre of the CNAP committee
• Member and coordinator (kinematics) in the MaNGA survey (PI: Kevin Bundy)
• Co-I of the Next Generation Virgo Survey (CFHT, PI: Ferrarese)
• Member of the MUSE/VLT Science Team
• Board member of the C2PAP (Excellence Cluster Computing Centre)
• Member of the Science Team for HARMONI / ELT
• Chair of the IST for ESPRESSO/VLT
• Member of the Euro-VO Science Advisory Committee
• Representative member of ASTRONET

Past responsabilities

• Deputy Director of the Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (2008-2009)
• Head of the "Galaxy Physics and Cosmology" Team at CRAL
• INSU Deputy for Jean-Marie Hameury (and previously Anne-Marie Lagrange)
• Membre of the Scientific Comitee of the PN Galaxies
• Member of the Administrative Council for the Strasbourg Observatory
• Chair of the French Time Allocation Committee for CFHT (2003 - 2005)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Council (SAC) for CFHT (2002 - 2005)
• Member of the Space Telescope User's Committee (STUC, 2003 - 2006)
• Member of the scientific committee for SINFONI / VLT
• Member of the review committee for KMOS / VLT - STC/ESO 2003
• Member of the HST TAC Extragalactic Panel (Cycles 10, 14, 15)
• Member of the Euro3D European Network
• Member of the STECF User's committee (2001 - 2003)
• Member of the International Relation Council, Lyon University
• co-Instrument Scientist for SINFONI / VLT (1996 - 1997)
• Member of the Scientific Council of CRAL
• Chair of the Commission du Personnel (Lyon Observatory)
• Associate Scientist for HORIZON (French national effort on numerical simulations)
• Member of 2 recruiting committees at the Ecole Normale de Lyon/Lyon University
• Member of 5 recruiting boards (chair of 2) at ESO since 2009
• Member of PhD committees, e.g.: Olivier Tiret, Mina Koleva, Marie Martig, Remco van den Bosch, Benoit Epinat, Damien Chapon, Fabrice Durier, Nathalie Blanc, John Jardel
• Member of evaluation boards (e.g., AERES, GEPI 2013)
• PI of ANR OREAGAN

• Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award 2013 for the SAURON team
• Beatrice Tinsley Scholarship, Austin 2010
• Award from the French Astronomical Society: Young Researcher 2002

Hobbies