Biography:Suzanne Aigrain
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Born | [1] | January 9, 1979
Education | Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat |
Alma mater | Imperial College London (BSc) University of Cambridge (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Astrophysics Astronomy Exoplanets Bayesian inference |
Institutions | University of Oxford University of Exeter University of Cambridge |
Thesis | Planetary transits and stellar variability (2005) |
Website | www |
Suzanne Aigrain (born 1979)[1] is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.[2] She studies exoplanets and stellar variability.[3]
Early life and education
Aigrain grew up in Toulouse, France, and was educated at the Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat.[1] She studied physics at Imperial College London and graduated in 2000.[2] During her undergraduate studies she was an intern at the Exploratorium in San Francisco . She spent sixth months at the European Space Agency[4] before joining the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge for her doctoral studies, earning a PhD in 2005[2][5] for work on planetary transits and stellar variability.[5]
Career and research
Aigrain was a postdoctoral research associate in the Institute of Astronomy from 2004.[2] In 2007 Aigrain joined the University of Exeter as a lecturer.[2][6][7] She was appointed a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 2010.[2][8] She leads the Stars & Planets group at Oxford Astrophysics, studying exoplanets and their stars.[9] She uses the Hubble Space Telescope, the Very Large Telescope and CoRoT satellite.[10] In 2011 she hosted a meeting with the Institute of Physics and Royal Astronomical Society to discuss recent discoveries in exoplanets, attended by Giovanna Tinetti and Jocelyn Bell Burnell.[11]
She has expressed her concerns about the detection of planets using the radial velocity method to detect exoplanets; such as instrumental precision, stellar activity, patchy observations and limitations of other models.[12] She was part of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) discovery of the Earth sized planet close to Alpha Centauri Bb,[13] but played an even closer role in the study that disproved the planet's existence in 2016.[14]
Aigrain and her group use Bayesian inference to correct for instrumental systematics while robustly preserving real astrophysical signals. She has played a leading role in the Kepler (K2) mission, correcting for its systematic noise and discovering many transiting planets.[15] Aigrain has studied hot Jupiters and other Jupiter-like planets.[16] She has looked at the potential to use transit surveys to study stellar clusters.[17] Her research has been funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).[18]
In 2019 Algrain was awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant to study exoplanets.[19]
Aigrain is interested in public engagement and regularly delivers popular science lectures.[10][20][21][22] She spoke about exoplanets on In Our Time in 2013.,[23] and has taken part in Pint of Science.[24] In 2018 she spoke at the Oxford Playhouse, accompanying the play One Small Step.[25] In November 2018 she was part of the Kings Place Bach, the Universe and Everything performance.[26] She is a member of the International Astronomical Union.[27] She writes non-fiction with Philippe Aigrain, as well as writing her own poetry.[28][29][30]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Aigrain, Suzanne (2007). "Suzanne Aigrain CV". Archived from the original on 2015-08-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20150807083336/https://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/people/suz/docs/cv.pdf.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "All Souls College Oxford" (in en). https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/284.
- ↑ "Suzanne Aigrain - University of Oxford Department of Physics". https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/aigrain. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
- ↑ "Suzanne AIGRAIN - Innovation Convention 2014" (in en). https://ec.europa.eu/research/events/eib/ic2014/speaker.cfm?id=18.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Aigrain, Suzanne (2005). Planetary transits and stellar variability. Inspirehep.net (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. arXiv:astro-ph/0501558. OCLC 890157875. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.614684.
- ↑ "Dr Suzanne Aigrain". http://newton.ex.ac.uk/staff/SA/.
- ↑ "Past group photos | Physics and Astronomy | University of Exeter" (in en). http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/physics-astronomy/research/astrophysics/staff/pastgroupphotos/.
- ↑ "Suzanne Aigrain: homepage". https://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/people/suz/.
- ↑ "about – stars & planets @ oxford" (in en-US). http://splox.net/about/.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Interview: Suzanne Aigrain | SpaceCareers.uk" (in en-GB). SpaceCareers.uk. https://spacecareers.uk/?p=suzanne_aigrain.
- ↑ "A golden age of exoplanet discovery". http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/A_golden_age_of_exoplanet_discovery_999.html.
- ↑ "Interview with Suzanne Aigrain : On the Search for nearby Earth-like Exoplanets" (in fr-FR). PALE RED DOT. 2016-02-14. https://palereddot.org/de/interview-to-suzanne-aigrain-on-the-search-for-nearby-earth-like-exoplanets/.
- ↑ "UK astronomers celebrate discovery of new Earth-sized planet - Science and Technology Facilities Council" (in en). United Kingdom Research and Innovation. https://stfc.ukri.org/news/uk-astronomers-celebrate-discovery-of-new-earth-sized-planet/.
- ↑ Rajpaul, V.; Aigraine, S. (2016). "Ghost in the time series: no planet for Alpha Cen B." (in en). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 456 (1): L6–L10. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slv164.
- ↑ Howell, Steve B.; Sobeck, Charlie; Haas, Michael; Still, Martin; Barclay, Thomas; Mullally, Fergal; Troeltzsch, John; Aigrain, Suzanne et al. (2014). "The K2 Mission: Characterization and Early Results" (in en). Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 126 (938): 398–408. doi:10.1086/676406. ISSN 0004-6280. Bibcode: 2014PASP..126..398H.
- ↑ Fletcher, Leigh N.; Irwin, Patrick G. J.; Barstow, Joanna K.; Kok, Remco J. de; Lee, Jae-Min; Aigrain, Suzanne (2014). "Exploring the diversity of Jupiter-class planets" (in en). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 372 (2014): 20130064. doi:10.1098/rsta.2013.0064. ISSN 1364-503X. PMID 24664910. Bibcode: 2014RSPTA.37230064F.
- ↑ Aigrain, S.; Pont, F. (2007). "On the potential of transit surveys in star clusters: impact of correlated noise and radial velocity follow-up" (in en). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 378 (2): 741–752. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11823.x. ISSN 0035-8711. Bibcode: 2007MNRAS.378..741A.
- ↑ "GTR". https://gtr.ukri.org/person/5B7CD634-7250-48B0-B01D-3FE496197FD0.
- ↑ "ERC awards over €600 million to Europe's top researchers" (in en). 2019-12-05. https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-awards-over-600-million-euro-europes-top-researchers.
- ↑ Anon. "Exploring the Diversity of Exoplanets" (in en-GB). http://www.iop.org/activity/branches/south_east/lse/news/12/nov/page_58995.html.
- ↑ "Exploring the Diversity of Exoplanets". https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/events/reports/2012-2013/Exoplanets.pdf.
- ↑ Follow The Evidence (2017-07-03), Where and How Might We Search for Life? - Suzanne Aigrain, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMP2GlNGBBM, retrieved 2018-11-25
- ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Exoplanets" (in en-GB). BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03brwql.
- ↑ "Deep space discoveries" (in en-GB). https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/deep-space-discoveries.
- ↑ "One Small Step: Far Beyond The Moon" (in en). https://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/whats-on/all-shows/one-small-step-far-beyond-the-moon/9427.
- ↑ "Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment – Worlds Beyond • Kings Place" (in en-GB). Kings Place. https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/classical/orchestra-of-the-age-of-enlightenment-worlds-beyond/.
- ↑ "Suzanne Aigrain at IAU". International Astronomical Union. https://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/14787/.
- ↑ Aigrain, Philippe (2012) (in en). Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 9789089643858.
- ↑ "About | www.sharing-thebook.com" (in en). https://www.sharing-thebook.com/.
- ↑ "Suzanne Aigrain: Poetry". https://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/people/suz/poesie/index.html.
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