Speaker:
Dr. Valeria Pettorino
Euclid Project Scientist, European Space Agency (ESA)
ESTEC, Netherlands
Hosts: Jean-Luc Starck and Panagiotis Tsakalides
Seminar Title: Overview of the ESA Euclid mission in the context of ESA Science today
Abstract: After a brief introduction of the ESA Science programme, I will focus on an overview of the ESA Euclid mission: I will describe mission objectives, challenges, main milestones so far, the first data release and next steps. I will also mention a few ESA programmes dedicated to interns, graduate students, and postdocs.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Pettorino is a physicist and she works as a Euclid Project Scientist at the European Space Agency (ESA), in ESTEC, Netherlands. After her PhD (Naples, Italy, 2005), she worked in Torino, Trieste (Italy), Heidelberg (Germany), New York (USA), Geneva (Switzerland). She joined CEA Paris-Saclay (France) in 2016 in the CosmoStat Lab, and then ESA in 2023. She has worked for ESA’s Planck space mission (2009-2018) and for ESA’s Euclid mission since 2007. Her main expertise is in cosmology and dark energy, testing theories with observations.