Jean-Luc Starck

Biography: Jean-Luc Starck is Director of Research and head of the CosmoStat laboratory at the Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe, Département d'Astrophysique, CEA-Saclay, France. Jean-Luc Starck has a Ph.D from Nice Observatory and an Habilitation from University Paris XI. He was a visitor at the European Southern Observatory in 1993, at UCLA in 2004 and at Stanford’s Department of Statistics in 2000 and 2005. Since 1994, he is a tenured researcher at CEA. He created in 2010 the CosmoStat laboratory and is strongly involved in the Euclid ESA space mission. He received the EADS prize of the French Academy of Science in 2011, the International Astrostatistics Association (IAA) Fellow Prize in 2016, the 2018 Gruber Price in Cosmology (as member of the ESA Planck team), the European Astronomical Society Tycho Brahe medal in 2022 and he is FORTH Honorary Fellow.
He leads Cosmostat, an interdisciplinary research group at the interface between cosmology and statistical methods with a focus on industry-academia partnership. He has organized more than 20 conferences, and was keynote, invited or seminar speaker over fifty times in the last ten years. Over the last 15 years, he has been involved as Co-I or PI in the management of 11 million euros of grants from national, European and international sources, including a senior ERC. He has published over 250 refereed papers in astrophysics, cosmology, signal processing and applied mathematics, and he is also author of three books. He is member of the Academia Europaea since 2021.