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Marie Ygouf

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Address:

4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 169-506

Pasadena, CA 91109

Curriculum Vitae:

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Member of:

Exoplanet Discovery and Science

Biography

My research focuses on high-contrast imaging in the view of directly detecting and characterizing exoplanets. I am particularly interested in improving the performance of instruments for exoplanet science, taking profit of data analysis and of the detailed characterization of the instrumental limitations and calibration capabilities.

I enjoy participating to public outreach activities including: Portable Planetarium Visits at children's hospitals in LA, NASA Solar System Ambassador, Public Science Talks, Adopt-a-Physicist, Letters to a Pre-Scientist and Skype a Scientist Programs, JPL Open House, Science advising for educational videos.

When not working, you will likely find me in the backcountry, sleeping with Grizzly bears in Yellowstone, walking on the Mauna Loa Volcanoe or canoeing in the Ten Thousand islands in the Everglades.

Education

PhD in Astrophysics (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)　

MSC in Optical Sciences and Engineering (Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Palaiseau, France)

BSC in Fundamental Physics (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, Paris, France)

Professional Experience

Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Technologist for the Roman Space Telescope CGI (2020-Present)

California Institute of Technology / IPAC in Pasadena - Postdoctoral researcher (2016-2020) 　

Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore - Postdoctoral fellow (2014-2016)

University of Maryland in College Park - Research associate (2013-2014)

Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble / ONERA in Châtillon - PhD Student (2009-2013)

Safran/Sagem Défense Securité/REOSC in Saint-Pierre-du-Perray - Optical Engineer　 (2007-2009)

Paris-Meudon Observatory/LESIA - Intern (2007)　

Community Service

Review board member: HST, NITARP, NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship Program

Research Interests

Direct detection of exoplanets, image processing, high angular resolution and high-contrast techniques, wavefront sensing and control, simulation, modeling and optical design.

Selected Awards

JPL Team Award - For providing LOC-SOC science leadership, organization, and coordination of the early career ExoExplorers activity under the ExEP Office (2022)

JPL Team Award – For engaging across functional and institutional boundaries to develop creative solutions for Roman Coronagraph observation calibrations (2021)

Recipient of the Mentor of the Year Award (Candace Rypisi Outstanding Mentor Award @ Caltech) as part of my contribution to the Caltech Women Mentoring Women Program (2019)

Selected Publications

  1. “Spatially resolved imaging of the inner Fomalhaut disk using JWST/MIRI”, A. Gaspar, …, M. Ygouf et al., Accepted for Publication in Nature Astronomy (Embargoed, to be published on May 8, 2023)
  2. “Wavefront Error Recovery and Companion Identification with the James Webb Space Telescope”, M. De Furio, M. Ygouf et al., 2023
  3. “First Observations of the Brown Dwarf HD 19467 B with JWST”, A. Greenbaum, …, M. Ygouf et al., 2023
  4. “JWST/NIRCam coronagraphy: commissioning and first on-sky results” in SPIE Conference Series, J. Girard, … , M. Ygouf et al., 2022
  5. “The Roman Space Telescope coronagraph technology demonstration: current status and relevance to future missions", in SPIE Conference Series, B. Mennesson, …, M. Ygouf et al. 2022
  6. “Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope coronagraph instrument observation calibration plan", in SPIE Conference Series, R. Zellem, …, M. Ygouf et al. 2022
  7. “Absolute flux calibrations for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument", in SPIE Conference Series, L. Payne, …, M. Ygouf et al. 2022
  8. "Data processing for high-contrast imaging with the James Webb Space Telescope”, M. Ygouf et al., in SPIE Conference Series, 2020
  9. "Searching for Planets Orbiting α Cen A with the James Webb Space Telescope", C. Beichman, M. Ygouf, et al., PASP, 2020
  10. "Data processing and algorithm development for the WFIRST-AFTA coronagraph", in SPIE Conference Series, M. Ygouf et al., 2016
  11. "WFIRST-AFTA Coronagraphic Operations: Lessons Learned from the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope", J. H. Debes, M. Ygouf et al., , in JATIS, 2015
  12. "Simultaneous exoplanet detection and instrument aberration retrieval in multispectral coronagraphic imaging", M. Ygouf et al., in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2013

Projects

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope