Academic CV - Florent Renaud

Current positions

⦁	Directeur de Recherche (research professor) in Astrophysics CNRS / Strasbourg Observatory, France
⦁	Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS) Strasbourg University, France
⦁	Vice-president of the International Astronomy Union commission Stellar clusters throughout Cosmic Space and Time (elected in June 2021)

Past research experience

2017-2023	Forskare (senior researcher, 2019-2022), then Docent (associate professor, 2022-2023) Lund University, Sweden
2022	Invited researcher (1 month) Observatoire de Paris, France
2014-2017	Postdoc fellow (3 years) University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
2011-2014	Postdoc fellow (3.5 years) Service d'Astrophysique, CEA-Saclay, Paris, France
2010	Visiting fellow (3 months) Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK
2007-2010	PhD Student (3 years) Institut für Astronomie of Vienna, Austria Observatoire de Strasbourg, France
2007	Research assistant (6 months) NASA Herschel Science Center, IPAC, Caltech - Pasadena, USA
2005	Research assistant (2 months) Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, France

Education

2022	Docent (equivalent to Habiliation à diriger des recherches or Privatdozent) Lund University, Sweden
2007-2010	PhD Thesis: Dynamics of the tidal fields & formation of star clusters in galaxy mergers. Titles of Doctor rerum naturalium and Doctor Philosopiae in Astrophysics Universität Wien (Austria) and Université de Strasbourg (France) Supervisors: Christian Theis (Vienna) and Christian Boily (Strasbourg)
2006-2007	Master in Astrophysics, Université de Strasbourg
2004-2007	Engineering degree, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Strasbourg (courses in physics, signal processing, IT, automation, electronics and management)

Publications & talks

83 refereed papers, including 22 as first author, 14 as second author, and 14 by students under my supervision.
h-index = 34
i-10 index = 68
See my publication list.

159 talks, including 47 as invited speaker, 49 contributed, and 63 seminars and colloquia.
See my talk list.

Awards, grants, fellowships

2024	State grant (Subvention d'État, recrutement DR externe), CNRS (150,000 Euros)
2023	Fellowship: Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS), Université de Strasbourg (~ 103,000 Euros)
2020	Best talk award: Linking the galactic and extragalactic conference
2020	Research grant of the Walter Gyllenberg Foundation (~ 20,000 Euros)
2018	Research grant of the Walter Gyllenberg Foundation (~ 20,000 Euros)
2015	Prix La Recherche Renaud et al. (2014) awarded best outstanding and original work in Astrophysics
2011-2012	Humboldt Foundation Junior Fellowship (declined) (~ 80,000 Euros)
2007-present	Several visiting fellowships and travel grants (~ 60,000 Euros in total)

Supervision, mentoring

See our Group page

Postdoc

2023-

Dr. Gauri Sharma, Strasbourg Observatory

PhD

2021-	Niels Nieuwmunster, Lund University, Sweden; Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, France
2020-	Álvaro Segovia Otero, Lund University, Sweden
2018-2022	Eric Andersson (4 years), Lund University, Sweden
2014-2018	Nicolas Guillard (3 years), ESO, Garching, Germany
2014-2017	Jeremy Fensch (3 years), CEA-Saclay, France
2011-2014	Katarina Kraljic (3 years), CEA-Saclay, France

Master, Bachelor

2024-	Claire Guillaume, Strasbourg Observatory
2024-	Bharat Bhatt, Strasbourg Observatory / University of Surrey, UK
2024-	Baptiste Morin, Strasbourg Observatory
2022-2023	John Ringdahl (1.5 years), Lund University, Sweden
2022	Anatole Storck (5 months), Lund University, Sweden
2022	Anna-Maria Söderman (5 months), Lund University, Sweden
2021-2022	Jonathan Petersson (1.5 years), Lund University, Sweden
2021	Erik Fridén (5 months), Lund University, Sweden
2020-2021	Oscar Andersson (1.5 years), Lund University, Sweden
2020	Jesper Nielsen (2 months), Lund University, Sweden
2019-2020	Mateo Prgomet (1.5 years), Lund University, Sweden
2018-2019	Samhitha Vadlamani (1.5 years), Lund University, Sweden
2018	Lina Warntoft (5 months), Lund University, Sweden
2018	Loke Lönnblad Ohlin (6 months), Lund University, Sweden
2014	Paolo Bianchini (6 weeks), ISIMA program, Toronto, Canada
2008	Gabriel Padilla (2 months), Strasbourg Observatory

Teaching

Director of Master programme

2020-2023

Director of the Master program in Astrophysics, Lund University
(in charge of recruitment of students, organization of master projects, coordination of the courses, monitoring of the student's progress, student's career development, social activities, chair of the evaluation committees)

Lecturer

2020-2023	Topics in theoretical Astrophysics, Lund University PhD level
2019-2023	Extragalactic astrophysics, Lund University Master level
2018-2023	Computational astrophysics, Lund University Master level
2017-2023	Galaxies and Cosmology, Lund University Bachelor level

Invited lecturer

2021	International Summer School on the Interstellar Medium of Galaxies, from the Epoch of Reionization to the Milky Way, Banyuls (online) Summer school for PhD students
2017	Instabilities and wave propagation in galaxies, Collège de France, Paris Part of a lecture series on Galactic dynamics
2016	Galaxy and star formation, European Doctoral School, Strasbourg Summer school for PhD students
2014	Multi-wavelength astrophysics in the data avalanche era, Strasbourg University Winter school for PhD students

Other

2012-2014	Scientific supervisor/advisor for several high school projects How does a satellite remain in orbit? ; Why is the sky blue? (Rayleigh scattering) ; Stellar evolution ; Astronomy in the middle ages
2009	Tutoring: Introduction to simulations of merging galaxies, Vienna University Master and PhD levels

Outreach, popularization

Inter-disciplinary

Several seminars given on big data, HPC and data visualization

Media

Several press releases written and interviews given to the press and TV
Large coverage on French and German national TV, French and Swedish national press, international specialized press and internet (Arte, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Astronomy Magazine, Ciel et Espace, La Recherche, CNRS International Magazine ...)

Events

2022	Outreach presenter in a space summer camp (high school level, 2 August 2022) Rymdforskarskolan (The Space Research School), Lund
2019	Invited public presentation (28 March 2019) ALVA association, Lund
2014	Invited public presentation (16 June 2014) Kiosque Citoyen, Rennes
2013	Production of a film from my simulations for the Vienna Planetarium
2008	Public presentation (8 November 2008) Long night of science 2008 (Lange Nacht der Forschung 2008), Vienna
2008	Invited public presentation (29 January 2008) Astronomy club of the ENSPS, Strasbourg

Granted proposals: supercomputers

Total of 355.3 million CPU-hours (62.5% as PI), and 0.32 million GPU-hours (100 % as PI) on tier-0 supercomputers:

2024	CoI of a GCS project: 20.0 Mh, SuperMUC
2023	CoI of a SNIC project: 2.0 Mh, Tetralith
	CoI of a SNIC project: 2.0 Mh, Tetralith
2022	PI of a SNIC project: 2.0 Mh, Tetralith
2021	PI of a SNIC/EuroHPC (Pilot phase) project: 150.0 Mh, Lumi
	PI of a SNIC project: 2.0 Mh, Tetralith
2020	CoI of a PRACE project: 45.0 Mh, Irene
	PI of a SNIC project: 2.3 Mh, Tetralith
2019	PI of a SNIC project: 1.0 Mh, Aurora
	CoI of a SNIC project: 2.6 Mh, Aurora
	CoI of a GENCI project: 3.8 Mh, Irene
2018	PI of a SNIC project: 1.0 Mh, Aurora
	CoI of a GENCI project: 5.3 Mh, Curie, Occigen, and Irene
2017	PI of a PRACE project: 15.1 Mh, Marconi KNL
	CoI of a GENCI project: 15.8 Mh, Curie and Occigen
2016	PI of a GENCI (exceptional call) project: 6.4 Mh, Curie
	CoI of a GENCI project: 11.6 Mh, Curie
2015	PI of a PRACE project: 21.8 Mh, Curie
	CoI of a PRACE project: 16.2 Mh, Curie
2014	CoI of a GENCI project: 3.0 Mh, Curie
2013	PI of a PRACE project: 8.5 Mh, SuperMUC
	CoI of a GENCI project: 3.0 Mh, Curie
2012	PI of a GENCI project: 0.24 Mh, Curie hybrid nodes
	CoI of a GENCI project: 2.9 Mh, Curie
2011	PI of a PRACE project: 12.0 Mh, Curie
	PI of a GENCI Grand Challenge project: 0.08 Mh, Curie hybrid nodes

Granted proposals: telescopes

2023	Co-I of a MeerKAT project: 50.0 hours (PI: S. Sankar)
2022	Co-I of a FAST project: 21.9 hours (PI: C. Cheng)
	Co-I of a CFHT/MegaCam project (DDT): 3.9 hours (PI: M. Arabsalmani)
2020	Co-I of a FAST project: 22.4 hours (PI: C. Xu)
2019	Co-I of a NOEMA project: 60 hours (PI: N. Tomicic)
2016	Co-I of a HST/WFC3 project: 8 orbits (PI: P.-A. Duc)
2015	Co-I of a NOEMA project: 32.3 hours (PI: A. Hughes)
	Co-I of a MUSE project: 21 hours (PI: A. Adamo)

Services

⦁	Vice-president of the International Astronomy Union commission Stellar clusters throughout Cosmic Space and Time (elected for the triennal 2021-2024)
⦁	Expert for national and international funding agencies (Europe, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Israel, The Netherlands, Poland, UAE, UK)
⦁	Reviewer for A&A, ApJ(L), MNRAS(L), Nature Astronomy, PASJ
⦁	Examiner of Bachelor (6), Master (21), and PhD (4) theses
⦁	Conference organization ○ GalPhases24: Accretion in the Local Group, Strasbourg (26-30 August 2024), Chair ○ MODEST24: MOdeling and Observing DEnse STellar systems, Warsaw (19-23 August 2024), SOC ○ SF2A symposium S02 (PNCG workshop): Simulating galaxies from stellar to cosmological scales, Marseille (4-7 June 2024) SOC ○ GalPhases23: Phases Of Galactic Evolution As Traced By Stellar Populations And Star Clusters, Sesto (26-30 June 2023), Chair ○ Star-forming clumps and clustered starbursts across cosmic time, Munich (October 2022), Chair ○ Formation of the Galactic center, Ringberg (26-30 October 2020, postponed), SOC ○ Assembly of the Milky Way, Strasbourg (10-12 June 2020, postponed), Chair ○ Survival of Dense Star Clusters in the Milky Way System, Heidelberg (19-23 November 2018), SOC ○ Ramses User Meeting, Saclay (25-28 June 2014), LOC ○ Antennae Workshop, Strasbourg (1-3 March 2009), Chair ○ JENAM, Vienna (8-12 September 2008), LOC ○ Galactic and Stellar Dynamics, Strasbourg (16-20 March 2008), LOC
⦁	Founder and organizer ○ South East Galaxy Network, Surrey, UCL, MSSL (2015-2017) ○ Lunch seminars, Surrey (2015-2017) ○ Weekly Extragalactic Theoretical Journal Club, Vienna (2009-2010)