Curriculum Vitae
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Office address
CNRS - Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP)
04 870 Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire, France
phone: (33) 492 70 64 96
fax: (33) 492 76 62 95
e-mail: Luc.Arnold @@@ oamp.fr
Personal informations
French citizen
Date of birth: June 27th, 1965
Present Position
- Since January 1997: Research engineer at CNRS, Observatoire de
Haute
Provence,
France
Post Doctoral Position
- Until December 1996: ATER Collège de France, at
Observatoire de
Haute Provence, France
Ph.D. Degree
- Date: June 30, 1995
- Thesis advisor: Pr. Antoine Labeyrie, Collège de France.
- Title: Small elastic deformations of plates and shallow spherical
shells:
influence functions and application to the optimization of passive or
active
supports for thin telescope mirrors and to adaptive mirrors.
- Original title in French: Petites déformations
élastiques
des plaques et des coques sphériques surbaissées:
fonction
d'influence et application à l'optimisation de supports passifs
ou actifs de miroirs minces de télescopes et aux miroirs
adaptatifs.
with honours (mention très honorable avec les
félicitations
du jury).
Post High School Degrees
- July 1991: Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA) de Chimie
physique,
Université de Haute-Alsace, France, with honours (mention
Assez-Bien).
- July 1991: Magistère Matériaux aux
propriétés
électroniques et mécaniques particulières, Master
of Science in Physical Chemistry and Material Science and Engineering,
Université de Strasbourg I and Université de
Haute-Alsace,
France.
- June 1990: Maîtrise de Chimie physique, Université
de
Strasbourg
I, France, graduate in Physical Chemistry.
- June 1987: Diplôme d'Etudes Universitaires
Générales,Physiques,
Université de Strasbourg I, France, bachelor in Physics.
- June 1985: Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie, Mesures
Physiques,
option Techniques Instrumentales, Université de
Champagne-Ardennes,
France, measuring and control technician degree.
Professional Experience in Physics and Astronomy
- January-June 1991: Laboratoire de Photochimie
Générale,
Ecole
Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Mulhouse, France, in-situ
phase-hologram
recording in photocurable polymer substrates.
- Summer 1990: European Research Center Corning, Avon, France,
modification
of surface properties using Sol-Gel coatings.
- July 1989: Laboratoire de Photochimie Générale,
Ecole
Nationale
Supérieure de Chimie de Mulhouse, France, caracterization of
acrylic
photocurable polymers.
- July 1986: Observatoire du Pic-du-Midi, France, photometric
calibrations
of faint stars around Mira-type object UX Cygni with photographic
technics.
- May and June 1985: Observatoire de Strasbourg, France,
preparation of a
24" Cassegrain telescope for spectroscopic observations of P/Halley.
Interests and Activities
- Amateur Astronomy:
- mirror polishing up to 20" parabolic mirrors, 0.1 wave
peak-to-valley
wavefront
accuracy, equatorial telescopes maker, deep sky photography,
- variable stars observing (member of the Association
Françaisedes
Observateurs d'Etoiles Variables (AFOEV)).
- Music: piano, jazz.
- Sport: montain bike, skiing, swimming, jogging (half-marathons).