Curriculum Vitae

Basic Information

Nationality: Irish
Email: samuel [dot] farrens [at] cea [dot] fr
Phone: +33 01 69 08 83 77
Fax: +33 01 69 08 65 77
Address:
Service d’Astrophysique, CEA Paris-Saclay,
Orme des Merisiers, Building 709
F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Dec 2017 - Present: Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique (CEA) Paris-Saclay, France
Position: Permanent Researcher
Project Involvement: Euclid, UNIONS, COSMIC, AstroDeep
Oct 2015 - Nov 2017: Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique (CEA) Paris-Saclay, France
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Funding: DEDALE FET H2020
Project Involvement: DEDALE, Euclid
Nov 2013 - Sep 2015: Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (INAF-OATS), Italy
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Funding: ASI - Euclid
Project Involvement: Euclid
Dec 2010 - Oct 2013: Institut de Ciències de L’Espai (ICE-IEEC), Spain
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Funding: CosmoComp FP7 ITN Fellowship (Marie Curie Actions)
Project Involvement: DES, Euclid, PAU

Oct 2007 - Nov 2010: University College London (UCL), UK
Award: PhD in Astrophysics
Thesis Title: “Optical Detection of Galaxy Clusters”
Sep 2003 - Jun 2007: University College London (UCL), UK
Award: MSci in Astrophysics - First Class
Thesis Title: “Finding Clusters with \( 10^6 \) Luminous Red Galaxies”
Sep 2002 - Jun 2003: Birkbeck College (University of London), UK
Award: Foundation Degree in Mathematics and Physics - Distinction
Jan 1999 - Dec 2001: Liceo de Atenas, Costa Rica
Award: International Baccalaureate Diploma - Distinction

Nov 2020: Invited talk “PySAP: From Galaxies to Brains and Beyond” at ADASS XXX in Granada, Spain (remote)
Sep 2019: Keynote “From Galaxies to Brains! - Image processing with Python” at EuroScipy in Bilbao, Spain
May 2017: Seminar “Regularisation techniques for solving inverse problems” in Clermont-Ferrand, France

Apr 2021 - Aug 2021: Olivier Roth “Unsupervised learning for galaxy cluster membership assignment”
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020: Sophie Starck “PySAP Software Development and Data Science”
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019: Alice Lacan “Deep Learning for Multiclass Classification of Blended Galaxy Images”
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019: Joël Gehin “Euclid Data Processing”
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018: Alexandre Bruckert “Machine Learning and Image Deblending for Astrophysical Data”
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018: Hugo De Bouard “Déconvolution d’images de galaxies”
Jul 2017 - Dec 2017: Xinyu Wang “Identification of Blended Galaxy Images”
Apr 2017 - Sep 2017: Peipei Ran “Deconvolution of astrophysical images with space variant instrumental response”

Nov 2019: Tutorials on Python and Make/CMake at Euclid C++/Python workshop in Paris, France
Sep 2019: Tutorial on Astronomical Image Processing at EuroScipy in Bilbao, Spain
May 2018: Tutorial on Sparsity at the 9th edition of the Astronomical Data Analysis (ADAIX) summer school in Valencia, Spain
May 2016: Tutorial on Sparsity at the 8th edition of the Astronomical Data Analysis (ADA8) summer school in Chania, Greece
Jan 2011 & May 2011: Lectures - Courses on Cosmology for master’s students at ICE, Spain
Oct 2008 - Apr 2010: Marking - 1st Year Classical Mechanics, 1st Year Thermodynamics and 3rd Year Practical Physics at UCL, UK
Oct 2008 - Apr 2009: Tutoring - Undergraduate Maths and Physics at UCL, UK

Sep 2007: Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO), Australia
Instruments: 3.9m telescope with the AAOmega spectrograph
Feb 2006: Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP), France
Instruments: 1.52m telescope with the AURELIE spectrograph and 1.2m telescope with CCD camera