{"id":56,"date":"2021-10-26T17:25:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2021-12-16T17:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T16:01:17","slug":"who-is-pierre-kervella","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/who-is-pierre-kervella\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Pierre Kervella ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a professional astronomer working at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lesia.obspm.fr\">LESIA laboratory<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.observatoiredeparis.psl.eu\">Paris Observatory<\/a> in Meudon, my research is focused on stellar physics, the extragalactic distance scale and exoplanets, using various observing techniques. They include optical long-baseline interferometry with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\">ESO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/sci\/facilities\/paranal\/telescopes\/vlti.html\">VLTI\u00a0Array<\/a>, adaptive optics using e.g. VLT\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/sci\/facilities\/paranal\/instruments\/sphere.html\">SPHERE<\/a>, and astrometry with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/sci\/facilities\/paranal\/instruments\/gravity.html\">VLTI\/GRAVITY\u00a0instrument<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/sci.esa.int\/web\/gaia\">ESA Gaia<\/a> space mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/files\/2021\/10\/Portrait-Pierre-Kervella-Paranal-mini-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"57\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/?attachment_id=57\" class=\"wp-image-57\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/files\/2021\/10\/Portrait-Pierre-Kervella-Paranal-mini-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/files\/2021\/10\/Portrait-Pierre-Kervella-Paranal-mini-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/files\/2021\/10\/Portrait-Pierre-Kervella-Paranal-mini-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/files\/2021\/10\/Portrait-Pierre-Kervella-Paranal-mini-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/files\/2021\/10\/Portrait-Pierre-Kervella-Paranal-mini.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A list of my scientific publications can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/search\/fq=%7B!type%3Daqp%20v%3D%24fq_database%7D&amp;fq_database=database%3A%20astronomy&amp;q=author%3A(%22kervella%2C%20p.%22)&amp;sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc&amp;p_=0\">Astrophysics Data System<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a professional astronomer working at the LESIA laboratory of Paris Observatory in Meudon, my research is focused on stellar physics, the extragalactic distance scale and exoplanets, using various observing techniques. They include optical long-baseline interferometry with the ESO VLTI\u00a0Array, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/who-is-pierre-kervella\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-kervella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}