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Astronomer and Astrophysicist
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Contact: scoude (at) worcester.edu
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simoncoude/
GitHub: https://github.com/coude/
My name is Simon Coudé, and I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Worcester State University and at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.
My research interests focus on the study of the cold interstellar medium, and the role it plays in the formation of stellar systems in our galaxy. Specifically, I work to bring an observational perspective to better understand how interstellar turbulence and magnetic fields influence the fragmentation of dense filaments.
I completed my Ph.D. in Astrophysics in 2018 under the supervision of Pierre Bastien at the Université de Montréal in Québec, Canada. While in graduate school, I was a student member of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) and the Center for Research in Astrophysics of Québec (CRAQ).
I was previously Instrument Scientist for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). I was affiliated with Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and based at the NASA Ames Research Center.
As instrument scientist, my main responsibility was to provide technical and scientific support for the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera Plus (HAWC+) polarimetric camera. I also had significant experience supporting the German REceiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies (GREAT), an heterodyne array designed for spectroscopy in the far-infrared.
SOFIA landing at the Köln airport in Germany.
The summit of Maunakea as viewed from the JCMT.
During my doctoral studies, I had the opportunity to work with SCUBA-2 continuum, HARP spectroscopic, and POL-2 polarimetric observations taken at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). I was also directly involved in the commissioning process for the SCUBA-2 polarimeter, POL-2.
As a professional astronomer, I have on-site experience observing at optical, infrared, far-infrared, and submillimeter wavelengths using both ground-based and airborne observatory. These includde the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM) in Québec, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii, and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) in California. I am also familiar with the data acquisition and analysis tools, as well as the proposals procedures, of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA).
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