Thierry Forveille
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Thierry Forveille | |
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 Thierry Forveille in 2000 at the Infrared Optical Telescope Array | |
| Born | July 11, 1961 Sétif, French Algeria |
| Alma mater | Université Grenoble-Alpes |
| Known for | Research on brown dwarfs and exosolar planets. Editor-in-chief of Astronomy & Astrophysics |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Grenoble Planetology and Astrophysics Institute |
Thierry Forveille, (born on July 11, 1961) in Sétif (then in French Algeria), is a French astronomer working at the Grenoble Planetology and Astrophysics Institute (part of the Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble) and the editor-in-chief of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.[1]
A former student of École Normale Supérieure,[2] Thierry Forveille obtained his PhD in physics in 1988 at the Joseph-Fourier University (which later merged into University of Grenoble-Alpes) with a thesis entitled Millimetric observations of circumstellar matter around young stellar objects and advanced stars[3] under the direction of Stéphane Guilloteau. He has been an astronomer in the astronomy group of the Grenoble observatory (now Grenoble Institute of planetology and astrophysics) since 1988, interrupted by a 2000-2006 stay at the Canada France Hawaii Telescope. His career is marked by numerous international collaborations.
He became editor-in-chief of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics in 2012.
His main current research areas are the observational studies of brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets.
