Septembre 2020

Congratulations to Sabri LEMARED for his Ph.D degree granted this September 30th for his work on “Stress-polishing of large light-weight space mirrors for Earth and space observations” !
Congratulations to Simona LOMBARDO for wining the Rising Talent prize for Women from the L’Oreal Foundation – UNESCO, recognizing her work for developing the CASTLE inovative telescope !
Also this month, the traditional GRD seminars are starting again after the summer break. A new duet formed by Iva LAGINJA and Felipe PEDREROS BUSTOS are taking over the organization. Stay tuned for the upcoming seminars !
This month, our new GRD member Faustine CANTALLOUBE has published an article in Nature Astronomy about the impact of climate change on large observatories (https://rdcu.be/b61Oh). This paper is part of a special issue about Climate change in Nature Astronomy. Congrats for this major work !