News & Jobs

June 2022

IUF Senior membership for H. Bouy

Hervé Bouy has been selected as a Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

February 2022

Merac Prize for Dr Miret Roig

Congratulation over and again to Dr Nuria Miret Roig! She has been awarded the prestigious Merac Prize for the Best PhD Thesis in Observational Astronomy from the European Astronomical Society. Bravo!

January 2022

On the waves

Nuria and Hervé on the French National radio broadcast France Culture "La Méthode Scientifique" with Nicolas Martin

In the news

Upper Sco results got some attention in the news and on the web! Here are a few (random) links:

December 2021

Rogue Planets!

Check our cool result in a nearby star forming complex: we found betweenn 70 and 170 rogue planets...

July 2021

Thesis Prize for Dr Miret Roig

Congratulation again to Dr Nuria Miret Roig! She has been awarded the PhD Thesis Prize in Science and Technology from the University of Bordeaux in recognition of her outstanding work. Bravo!

December 2020

Doctor Miret Roig

Congratulation to Dr Nuria Miret Roig!!! She brilliantly and successfully defended her PhD thesis on Dec. 17!

October 2020

Doctor Paillassa

Congratulation to Dr Maxime Paillassa!!! Maxime successfully defended his PhD thesis on Oct. 16!

October 2020

Kalkayotl

We present Kalkayotl, a new free and open source software designed to simultaneously infer cluster parameters (i.e. distance and size) and the distances to its stars using Gaia parallax measurements.

February 2020

Maximask & MaxiTrack

We are proud anounce the release of MaxiMask and MaxiTrack, two great softwares to automatically detect defaults and problems in astronomical images using convolutional neural networks!

September 2017

Postdoctoral Position

We are pleased to offer a postdoctoral position. The details and instructions for candidates are given on Euraxess website.

Important dates:

  • Deadline for submission: 22/10/2017
  • Position start: early/mid November 2017

May 2017

Research Engineer Position

We are pleased to offer a position for an Astronomical Software developer (research engineer). The details and instructions for candidates are given in the PDF:

Important dates:

  • Deadline for submission: 15/06/2017
  • Position start: early/mid September 2017

May 2017

PhD Position

We are pleased to offer a PhD thesis on star formation in young nearby clusters. The details and instructions for candidates are given in the PDF:

Important dates:

  • Deadline for submission: 31/05/2017
  • Position start: early/mid September 2017

May 2017

PhD Position

We are pleased to offer a PhD thesis on image/signal processing: "Robust detection of astronomical sources using convolutional neural networks". The details and instructions for candidates are given in the PDF:

Important dates:

  • Deadline for submission: 31/03/2017
  • Position start: early/mid September 2017

June 2016

Idex Junior Chair

The University of Bordeaux in France, awarded us an Idex (Initiative for Excellence) Junior Chair to bring and conduct the COSMIC-DANCE project to Bordeaux!

February 2016

ERC Consolidator

The COSMIC-DANCE project is proud to be among the 305 successful ERC Consolidator 2016 laureates. This ensures that funding and manpower will improve drastically starting around June 2016. We are extremely grateful to the European Research Council and through it, to the Peoples of Europe.

Stay tuned for PhD and postdoctoral job offers...