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Frédéric Courbin

Nationalité: French

Expertise

- Cosmology
- Gravitational lensing: strong, weak, micro
- Quasars and black holes
- High redshift galaxies
- Galaxy evolution
- Signal processing
- Data science
- Exoplanets (occasionally)

Expertise

- Cosmology
- Gravitational lensing: strong, weak, micro
- Quasars and black holes
- High redshift galaxies
- Galaxy evolution
- Signal processing
- Data science
- Exoplanets (occasionally)
After his studies in fundamental physics at the University of Paris-XI (Orsay, France), Frédéric Courbin carried out his PhD work between the Astrophysics Institute of the University of Liège (Belgium), Paris Observatory (France), and the European Southern Observatory (Germany). In 1999, he left Europe for three years, taking advantage of the clear skies of Chile to carry out his research using the brand new Very Large Telescope, constructed by Europe in the Atacama desert. In 2004, after two years of a Marie Curie fellowship at the University of Liège, he joint the Laboratory of Astrophysics, where he is now Professor. His main fields of activity are in observational cosmology and extragalactic astrophysics as well as in image and signal processing.
In 2018, he was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant in connection with his work in cosmology with gravitational lenses.
At EPFL, he is a member of the committee for the Physics Doctoral School since 2013 and has been the tutor of more than 30 PhD students. He is a member of the EPFL Council for the Faculty of Basic Sciences since 2018 and a member of the School Assembly since 2020.

All Publications

TOUTES LES PUBLICATIONS

Prix et distinctions

COSMICLENS

ERC Advanced grant (awarded 2018)

2023

Publications représentatives

COSMOGRAIL. XIX. Time delays in 18 strongly lensed quasars from 15 years of optical monitoring

Millon, M., Courbin, F., Bonvin, V., et al.
Published in 2020, A&A 640, A105 in

H0LiCOW - XIII. A 2.4 per cent measurement of H0 from lensed quasars: 5.3σ tension between early- and late-Universe probes

Wong, K. C.; Suyu, S. H.; Chen, G. C. -F. et al.
Published in 2020, MNRAS 498, 1420 in

Multi-band morpho-Spectral Component Analysis Deblending Tool (MuSCADeT): Deblending colourful objects

Joseph, R.; Courbin, F.; Starck, J.-L.
Published in 2016, A&A, 589, A2 in

Cosmology from Gravitational Lens Time Delays and Planck Data

Suyu, S. H., Treu, T., Hilbert, S., Sonnenfeld, A., Auger, M. W., Blandford, R. D., Collett, T., Courbin, F., Fassnacht, C. D., Koopmans, L. V. E., Marshall, P. J., Meylan, G., Spiniello, C., Tewes, M.
Published in 2014, ApJ, 788, L35 in

A PCA-based automated finder for galaxy-scale strong lenses

Joseph, R., Courbin, F., Metcalf, R. B., Giocoli, C., Hartley, P., Jackson, N., Bellagamba, F., Kneib, J.-P., Koopmans, L., Lemson, G., Meneghetti, M., Meylan, G., Petkova, M., Pires, S.
Published in 2014, A&A, 566, A63 in

COSMOGRAIL: the COSmological MOnitoring of GRAvItational Lenses. XIII. Time delays and 9-yr optical monitoring of the lensed quasar RX J1131-1231

Tewes, M., Courbin, F., Meylan, G., Kochanek, C. S., Eulaers, E., Cantale, N., Mosquera, A. M., Magain, P., Van Winckel, H., Sluse, D., Cataldi, G., V�r�s, D., Dye, S.
Published in 2013, A&A, 556, A22 in

A fast empirical method for galaxy shape measurements in weak lensing surveys

Tewes, M., Cantale, N., Courbin, F., Kitching, T., Meylan, G.
Published in 2012, A&A, 544, A8 in

Microlensing variability in the gravitationally lensed quasar QSO 2237+0305 ? the Einstein Cross . I. Spectrophotometric monitoring with the VLT

Eigenbrod, A., Courbin, F., Sluse, D., Meylan, G., Agol, E.
Published in 2008, A&A 480, 647 in

Microlensing variability in the gravitationally lensed quasar QSO 2237+0305 ? the Einstein Cross. II. Energy profile of the accretion disk

Eigenbrod, A., Courbin, F., Meylan, G., Agol, E., Anguita, T., Schmidt, R. W., Wambsganss, J.
Published in 2008, A&A, 490, 933 in

A Method for Spatial Deconvolution of Spectra

Courbin, F., Magain, P., Kirkove, M., Sohy, S.
Published in 2000, ApJ 529, 1136 in

Deconvolution with Correct Sampling

Magain, P., Courbin, F., Sohy, S.
Published in 1998, ApJ 494, 472 in

Enseignement et PhD

MOOC - Introduction to Astrophysics

MOOC - Introduction to Astrophysics

MOOC - The Radio Sky (Part II)

MOOC - The Radio Sky (Part II)

MOOC - The Radio Sky (Part I)

MOOC - The Radio Sky (Part I)