Laurie Riguccini Email & Phone Number

France

France

Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte D’Azur, France

Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte D’Azur, France

Sophia Antipolis

Rio De Janeiro Area, Brazil

From my previous post-doctoral experiences I became fully independent and obtained a three-years fellowship in Brazil with three scholarships to hire students. I maintained strong connections with my previous institute with Dr. Amblard on SED-fitting and I developed a link between the extragalactic teams at Valongo and the Astrophysics & Astrochemistry Laboratory Group at NASA-Ames (Dr. Christiaan Boersma, Dr. Louis Allamandola and Dr. Jesse Bregman) as detailed in my research program. After only three years in Brazil, I developed a strong network: I am working with the three professors of the extragalactic team in Valongo, I started a project with one of their recently graduated PhD Student (J.P Nogueira-Cavalcante) on AGN activity in green-valley galaxies in COSMOS, I am involved in the PhD of Luidhy Santana bringing my expertise on photometric redshift, I am co-advertising two master students, Yanna Martins whose project correspond to an extension of the work that I brought from NASA-Ames and 5 undergraduate student. I also started a strong collaboration with the team of Claudia Mendes de Oliveiria in IAG, Sao Paulo using S-PLUS survey.

During my postdoctoral appointment at NASA-Ames I broaden my skills that I developed during my PhD on Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) -fitting techniques: e.g., Lephare, Magphys, CIGALEMC, DecompIR (with estimation of an AGN contamination). The use of the very robust, yet challenging technique of SED-fitting allows to derive the physical parameters of the galaxies, especially with the apogee of deep and sensitive far-IR data (Herschel). With the new generation of sub millimeter and radio telescopes (ALMA, SKA, ...), the mastery of such technique is crucial. I developed a good knowledge of photometric redshift estimate (Lephare) and multi-wavelength data sets (e.g., COSMOS, PEP & HerMES, Stripe 82, S-PLUS, etc.) which are assets to lead research nowadays in the era of big surveys with terabytes of data.During my appointment at NASA-Ames, I studied early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the local Universe, extending my field of expertise of galaxy evolution. It is allowing myself to understand the dust-hidden activity in galaxies through cosmic time to build a broader picture of galaxy evolution, linking the dusty- high-z progenitors to their local massive, red descendants. I used this postdoctoral appointment to explore new areas and study ETGs and cluster environments, attending conferences and building a new network.

During my PhD I developed a solid knowledge on high-redshift (z~2-3) dusty galaxies with a valuable expertise on infrared (IR) data, both from archives (using Spitzer data) and with my wide implication in the Herschel community. I had indeed an active involvement in the HIPE (Herschel’s pipeline) development and I did the PACS (Herschel) data reduction of the COSMOS field being an active member of the PEP & COSMOS international collaborations.

I worked on Characterizing the InfraRed luminous galaxies at high z (1 < z < 3) in the COSMOS field . I developed skills on IDL programming, statistics on large samples of galaxies and use of infrared data.I also participated in the research leading to a publication from a rank-A journal: Deep Spitzer 24 μm COSMOS Imaging. I. The Evolution of Luminous Dusty Galaxies−Confronting the Models, E. Le Floc’h, H. Aussel, O. Ilbert, L. Riguccini, D. Frayer, M. Salvato, S. Arnouts, et al. 2009, ApJ, 703, 222

I worked at the Department of Cosmology on Strong gravitational lensing by spiral galaxies

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Astronomy And Astrophysics

Bs, Master And Magistere, Fundamental Physics

Master 1, Physics And Astrophysics