Emmanuel Hugot

Emmanuel H. Hugot is a French astrophysicist.[1] known for his contribution to the developments of new technologies that help to improve telescopes used by professional astronomers around the world. This includes the development of more efficient curved detectors, but also improvements in the manufacturing methods for optical elements and active optics systems. The technologies developed by Hugot and his group are used on the SPHERE instrument mounted on the European Very Large Telescope, as well as the coronagraphic instrument of the future NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which are used to detect exoplanets.

Emmanuel H. Hugot
Born
France
NationalityFrench
AwardsSF2A Young Researcher Prize (2014) ERC starting grant (2015), CNRS Bronze Medal (2017), Merac early career award (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsCentre national de la recherche scientifique, Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Marseille

Academic career

From 2015 to 2019, he was head of the R&D group in optics and instrumentation at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, gathering about 30 persons.[2] He obtained his PhD entitled “Astronomical Optics and elasticity theory” at the Aix Marseille University, France in 2007. He supervised or co-supervised twelve PhD students between 2009 and 2021.

Awards

In 2018 and 2019, the French Academy of Technologies selected him as a finalist for the Jean Jerphagnon Prize,[3] awarding young researchers starting entrepreneurship in the field of photonics.

In 2017 Hugot was awarded the MERAC early career prize for new technologies by the European Astronomical Society[4] for his unique and pioneering work on innovative astronomical instrumentation, based on active systems, freeform optics and curved focal planes.

In 2017 he was awarded a Bronze medal by the French National Center for Scientific Research (French: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) [5]

In 2016 he was awarded a prestigious 2 million euros starting grant by the European Research Council for his project ICARUS.

In 2014 he was awarded the young researcher (“Jeune Chercheur”) prize by French Society of Astronomy & Astrophysics[6]

References
  1. "International Astronomical Union | IAU". www.iau.org. Retrieved 2017-09-22.
  2. "Emmanuel HUGOT - LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille". www.lam.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-09-22.
  3. https://www.imt.fr/en/imt/awards-and-distinctions-awarded/jean-jerphagnon-award/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. Switzerland, Marc Türler and Mathias Beck, ISDC, Observatory of the University of Geneva. "MERAC Prizes". eas.unige.ch. Retrieved 2017-09-22.
  5. CNRS. "CNRS - Médailles de bronze - Palmarès 2017". www.cnrs.fr. Archived from the original on 2011-03-07. Retrieved 2017-09-22.
  6. "Proceedings of the annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy & Astrophysics" (PDF).
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