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A few words about me:
I am a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow in the Physics department at Durham University. My main areas of interest are observational cosmology, strong gravitational lensing, and the use of galaxy clusters as gravitational telescopes to look for the most distant galaxies.

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LENSES GALORE - HUBBLE FINDS LARGE SAMPLE OF VERY DISTANT GALAXIES
A Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescope Survey for Gravitationally-Lensed Galaxies:
Further Evidence for a Significant Population of Low Luminosity Galaxies beyond Redshift Seven [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Authors: Johan Richard (Caltech), Daniel P. Stark (Caltech), Richard S. Ellis (Caltech), Matthew R. George (Caltech), Eiichi Egami (Steward Observatory), Jean-Paul Kneib (LAM/OAMP), Graham P. Smith (U. Birmingham)


You can download a PDF version of the scientific paper (accepted for publication in ApJ) HERE


Previously, I have been a postdoctoral scholar in Astronomy at Caltech between 2005 and 2008, working within Richard Ellis's group. I obtained my PhD degree from Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse. I did my thesis work at the department of Astrophysics of the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, under the supervision of Roser Pelló and Jean-Paul Kneib. I have been working primarily in the Physics of galaxies group on galaxy formation and detection of the first generations of stars and galaxies.  
You can download a PDF version of my PhD thesis HERE

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