Thierry Forveille

Thierry Forveille, (born on July 11, 1961) in Sétif (then in French Algeria), is a French astronomer working at the Grenoble planetology and astrophysics institute and the editor-in-chief of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.[1]

Thierry Forveille
Thierry Forveille in 2000
BornJuly 11, 1961
Sétif, Algérie
NationalityFrançaise
Alma materUniversité Grenoble-Alpes
Known forResearch on brown dwarfs and exosolar planets. Editor-in-chief of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Scientific career
InstitutionsGrenoble planetology and astrophysics institute

A former student of École Normale Supérieure,[2] Thierry Forveille obtained his PhD in physics in 1988 at the University of Grenoble-Alpes (formerly Joseph-Fourier University) with a thesis entitled Millimetric observations of circumstellar matter around young stellar objects and advanced stars[3] under the direction of Stéphane Guilloteau. He has been an astronomer in the astronomy group of the Grenoble observatory (now Grenoble Institute of planetology and astrophysics) since 1988. His career is marked by numerous international collaborations.

He became editor-in-chief of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics in 2012.

His main current research areas are the observational studies of brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets.

Selected publications

The selection criterion for bibliographic references quoted in this section is the number of normalized citations, i.e., the total number of citations divided by the number of authors signing the publication, as given by the Astrophysics Data System at the date of writing.

References

  1. "Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)". www.aanda.org. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  2. "Accueil | a-Ulm". www.archicubes.ens.fr. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  3. Forveille, Thierry (1988-01-01). Observations millimétriques de matière circumstellaire autour d'objets jeunes et d'étoiles évoluées : [thèse soutenue sur un ensemble de travaux] (These de doctorat thesis). Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble ; 1971-2015).
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