cv.md

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Basic Information

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• Nationality: Irish {:.flag}

• Email: samuel [dot] farrens [at] cea [dot] fr

• Phone: +33 01 69 08 83 77

• Fax: +33 01 69 08 65 77

• Address:
  Service d'Astrophysique, CEA Paris-Saclay,
  Orme des Merisiers, Building 709
  F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Work Experience

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• Dec 2017 - Present: Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique (CEA) Paris-Saclay, France {:.flag}
  Position: Permanent Researcher
  Project Involvement: Euclid, UNIONS, COSMIC, AstroDeep

• Oct 2015 - Nov 2017: Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique (CEA) Paris-Saclay, France {:.flag}
  Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
  Funding: DEDALE FET H2020
  Project Involvement: DEDALE, Euclid

• Nov 2013 - Sep 2015: Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (INAF-OATS), Italy {:.flag}
  Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
  Funding: ASI - Euclid
  Project Involvement: Euclid

• Dec 2010 - Oct 2013: Institut de Ciències de L’Espai (ICE-IEEC), Spain {:.flag}
  Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
  Funding: CosmoComp FP7 ITN Fellowship (Marie Curie Actions)
  Project Involvement: DES, Euclid, PAU

Education

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• Oct 2007 - Nov 2010: University College London (UCL), UK {:.flag}
  Award: PhD in Astrophysics
  Thesis Title: “Optical Detection of Galaxy Clusters”

• Sep 2003 - Jun 2007: University College London (UCL), UK {:.flag}
  Award: MSci in Astrophysics - First Class
  Thesis Title: "Finding Clusters with \( 10^6 \) Luminous Red Galaxies”

• Sep 2002 - Jun 2003: Birkbeck College (University of London), UK {:.flag}
  Award: Foundation Degree in Mathematics and Physics - Distinction

• Jan 1999 - Dec 2001: Liceo de Atenas, Costa Rica {:.flag}
  Award: International Baccalaureate Diploma - Distinction

Invited Talks

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• Nov 2020: Invited talk "PySAP: From Galaxies to Brains and Beyond" at ADASS XXX in Granada, Spain (remote) {:.flag}

• Sep 2019: Keynote "From Galaxies to Brains! - Image processing with Python" at EuroScipy in Bilbao, Spain {:.flag}

• May 2017: Seminar "Regularisation techniques for solving inverse problems" in Clermont-Ferrand, France {:.flag}

Supervision

Software Developers

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• Nov 2022 - Present: Jennifer Pollack (Euclid)
• Apr 2021 - Present: Sergio Miranda La Hera (Euclid)

Postdocs

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• Feb 2022 - Present: Lucie Baumont (Euclid, UNIONS)
• Nov 2020 - Sep 2022: André Zamorano Vitorelli (Euclid, UNIONS)

Master's Students

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• Apr 2021 - Aug 2021: Olivier Roth "Unsupervised learning for galaxy cluster membership assignment"
• Sep 2019 - Feb 2020: Sophie Starck "PySAP Software Development and Data Science"
• Jul 2019 - Dec 2019: Alice Lacan "Deep Learning for Multiclass Classification of Blended Galaxy Images"
• Jul 2019 - Dec 2019: Joël Gehin "Euclid Data Processing"
• Apr 2018 - Sep 2018: Alexandre Bruckert "Machine Learning and Image Deblending for Astrophysical Data"
• Nov 2017 - Apr 2018: Hugo De Bouard "Déconvolution d’images de galaxies"
• Jul 2017 - Dec 2017: Xinyu Wang "Identification of Blended Galaxy Images"
• Apr 2017 - Sep 2017: Peipei Ran "Deconvolution of astrophysical images with space variant instrumental response"

Teaching

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• Nov 2019: Tutorials on Python and Make/CMake at Euclid C++/Python workshop in Paris, France {:.flag}

• Sep 2019: Tutorial on Astronomical Image Processing at EuroScipy in Bilbao, Spain {:.flag}

• May 2018: Tutorial on Sparsity at the 9th edition of the Astronomical Data Analysis (ADAIX) summer school in Valencia, Spain {:.flag}

• May 2016: Tutorial on Sparsity at the 8th edition of the Astronomical Data Analysis (ADA8) summer school in Chania, Greece {:.flag}

• Jan 2011 & May 2011: Lectures - Courses on Cosmology for master’s students at ICE, Spain {:.flag}

• Oct 2008 - Apr 2010: Marking - 1st Year Classical Mechanics, 1st Year Thermodynamics and 3rd Year Practical Physics at UCL, UK {:.flag}

• Oct 2008 - Apr 2009: Tutoring - Undergraduate Maths and Physics at UCL, UK {:.flag}

Observing

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• Sep 2007: Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO), Australia {:.flag}
  Instruments: 3.9m telescope with the AAOmega spectrograph

• Feb 2006: Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP), France {:.flag}
  Instruments: 1.52m telescope with the AURELIE spectrograph and 1.2m telescope with CCD camera

Outreach

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• Dec 2015: Workshop on Galaxy Zoo at Les Savanturiers event for teachers, France {:.flag}

• Mar 2010: Demonstrator at Your Universe, UCL festival of astronomy, UK {:.flag}