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Claire Moutou, Astronome and Astrophysicienne française will make us the honour this year to assume the role of godmother of the Occitanie 2020 Exposcience.
Director of Research at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Specialist in the detection and characterization of extra-solar planets, she participated in the discovery of several of them.
First assigned to the Laboratory of Astrophysics in Marseille where she spent 12 years operating the CNES CoRoT mission and the spectrographs ELODIE, HARPS and SOPHIE, and co-developing the exoplanet imager SPHERE, she is now a researcher at the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse.
His passion for star-watching and their procession of planets led him to work for several years at the Cerro Paranal Observatory in Chile and at the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope, in addition to the use of the national telescopes at St Michel's Observatory and the Pic du Midi.
His work on the discovery of exoplanets and the description of their physical characteristics has been the subject of numerous international collaborations and publications.
Among the latest tools she has helped implement in Hawaii, the SPIRou spectropolarimeter should provide a map of the living worlds closest to the solar system – an important first step towards a better understanding of our galactic environment.
Read Claire Moutou's interview for Exposcience 2.0 20 in video:
