David Elbaz#
| Membership Number: | 5200 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://david.elbaz3.free.fr |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7631-647X |
| Twitter: | @DavidAElbaz |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2018 Managing Editor of the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal
- 2017 - 2019 President of the Scientific Council of the National Program on Cosmology and Galaxies (PNCG) for the National Institute of the Sciences of the Universe (INSU) of CNRS
- Since 2016 Head of the Astrophysics Segment of CEA (for the CEA General Directorate)
- Sicne 2015 Director of Research at CEA - Saclay, France
- 2001 - 2019 - Head of the "Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution" laboratory at the Astrophysics Department of CEA - Saclay, France (22 researchers including 10 staff members and 12 postdocs and PhD students)
Fields of Scholarship
- Galaxies: star formation
- Galaxies: interactions
- Galaxy clusters
- Deep surveys of galaxies
- Galaxy formation
- Infrared: galaxies
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Jaffé Award from the French Academy of Sciences (Fondation de l’Institut de France)
- 2017 Book Award from the X-Philo Association of Polytechnique School for "À la recherche de l'univers invisible" (“Searching for the invisible universe”, 2016, ed. Odile Jacob)
- 2000 Chrétien Award from the American Astronomical Society
