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Name : Andrea
Surname : Chiavassa
Birthday : 08 January 1979
Birthplace : Savigliano, Italy
Professional Address : Laboratoire Lagrange
UMR 7293
Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur
Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
Bd de l'Observatoire
B.P. 4229 - 06304 Nice Cedex 4
France
Tel : (+33) (0)492 00 3027
Professional E-mail : andrea.chiavassa@oca.eu
Private E-mail : andreew@alice.it
Languages :
Italian - native speaker
French - excellent
English - excellent
German - good
Spanish - basics
Current Position
Permanent position at CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
Scientific interests
Multidimensional Radiative Transfer, Multidimensional Radiative Hydrodynamics, Surface convection, Spectroscopy, Interferometry, astrometry, planets, interstellar medium
Academic experiences
December 2018 : HDR in Astrophysics - Université Côte d'Azur, Nice - " A Journey across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram with 3D hydrodynamical simulations of cool stars "
October 2010 - Agoust 2012: Fellowship at Institut d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique de Bruxelles with Prof. Alain Jorissen. Research topic: 3D Chemical abundances in peculiar stars and Gaia predictions for cool stars.
September 2008 - September 2010: Fellowship at Max Planck Institut for Astrophysics, Garching with Prof. Martin Asplund. Research topic: 3D modelling of convection in stellar atmosphere of cool stars. Interferometric and spectroscopic observables for red supergiant, K-giant and AGB stars.
PhD student (october 2004 - june 2008) at GRAAL, Montpellier, France. Development of a 3D radiative transfer code for radiation hydrodynamics simulations of red supergiants. Comparison of theoretical results with spectroscopic and interferometric observations. Determination of the convection pattern on red supergiant stars.
Master Degree final project ("Laurea in Astrofisica e Fisica Cosmica") at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (LAOG), France, under the supervision of Cecilia Ceccarelli (2004, 8 months ERASMUS exchange project) - The 90-110 micron dust feature in low to intermediate mass protostars
Bachelor final project ("Laurea in Fisica") at the University of Turin under the supervision of Gianni Navarra (Mars to June 2002) - Study of the high voltage circuit of photomultipliers of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Computer and Programming Skills
MacOsX, Linux, Unix, Windows operating systems administration
Programming in Fortran95 e Fortran 77, IDL, Shell Scripts, Yorick Astronomical software : Supermongo, synthetic spectrum calculation, CO5BOLD photosphere models calculations
Others : LaTeX2e, Word, Excel, Power Point
