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Education

2005	PhD astronomy, Université de Provence, FRANCE
2002	MSc Physics (plasmas, astrophysics), Université de Provence, FRANCE
2002	MSc Engineering, École des Mines d'Alès, FRANCE

Professional experience

2012-present	SCExAO Senior Scientist
Subaru Telescope, Hilo HI	Dr. Olivier Guyon

2011-2012	Research Affiliate
University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW	Pr. Peter Tuthill

Two-month sabbatical spent at the University of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia, to pursue a series personal research projects on kernel-phases and strenghten the existing collaboration between the high angular resolution astronomy group led by Pr. Peter Tuthill and the SCExAO project.

2008-2011	CEAO Research Fellow
Subaru Telescope, Hilo HI	Dr. Olivier Guyon

Development of an Extreme-AO system and a high performance PIAA coronagraph to be inserted between the 188-actuator AO system and the HiCIAO camera already installed at the Nasmyth IR platform of the Subaru Telescope. Member of the SEEDS collaboration.

2005-2008	Research Associate
Cornell University, Ithaca NY	Pr. James Lloyd

Near Infrared observational Astronomy: Low-Mass stars, Brown Dwarfs and of course Extrasolar Planets. NGS and LGS AO observations at Palomar and Keck. Development of a data reduction pipeline for Non-redundant aperture masking interferometry, in collaboration with Michael Ireland and Peter Tuthill of University of Sydney.

In addition, in 2006, I also taught an astronomy course (Astro106: Special Relativity) during the Summer Sessions of Cornell University.

2002-2005	Graduate Student
Observatoire de Haute Provence	Pr. Antoine Labeyrie

Research on pupil densification, wavefront sensing for sparse apertures and extreme coronagraphy for the detection of Extrasolar Planets. My PhD dissertation is entitled "pupil remapping for high angular resolution astronomy" (written in French) and discusses a couple different ways of violating the golden rule of imaging systems by tweaking the pupil.

For a couple of months, I also collaborated with Dr. Jean Schneider from Observatoire de Paris and designed an active (PHP/MySQL) version of his now infamous Extrasolar Planet Encyclopedia website, used worldwide to browse and plot the most up-to-date information on extrasolar planets.

2004	Jr. Research Intern
Subaru Telescope, Hilo HI	Dr. Olivier Guyon

Theoretical study of the Phase Induced Amplitude Apodization (PIAA) coronagraph. Performance evaluation of a PIAA-coronagraph version of the Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph (TPF-C) mission.

Selected refereed publications

Martinache, F., Rojas-Ayala, B., Ireland, M.J., Lloyd, J.P & Tuthill, P.G., 2009, "Visual orbit of GJ164 AB", ApJ, 695, 1183.
Martinache, F., Lloyd J.P., Ireland, M.J., Yamada, R.S. & Tuthill, P.G., 2007, "Precision masses of the low-mass binary system GJ 623", ApJ, 661, 496.
Martinache F., Guyon O., Pluzhnik E.A., Galicher, R. & Ridgway S.T., 2006, "Exoplanet Imaging with a Phase Induced Amplitude Apodization Coronagraph", ApJ, 639, 1129.
Martinache, F., 2004, "PIZZA: a Phase Induced Zonal Zernike Apodization", JOPA, 6, 809.
Martinache, F., 2004, "Global wavefront sensing for interferometers and mosaic telescopes: the dispersed speckles principle", JOPA, 6, 216.

Education

Professional experience

Selected refereed publications

CV/Résumé