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Surname and first name: LOISEAU, Nora

Place of birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Nationalities: argentinian and spanish

Professional address:

XMM-Newton Observatory, ESA

Apdo. 50727 Villafranca del Castillo,

E-28080 Madrid, SPAIN

phone: +34-91-8131298;

FAX: +34-91-8131322;

E-mail: nora.loiseau at sciops.esa.int

Homepage: www.geocities.com/noraloi

Private address:

c/ Pto. de Somosierra 15 - 1 B

Majadahonda

E-28220 Madrid, SPAIN

Education

- April 1977 Physics M.Sc. from Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. MSc thesis on

HI High Velocity Clouds,

- Dec. 1984 PhD in Physics from Universidad Nacional de La Plata; PhD thesis on The

Structure and Kinematics of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Positions (starting by the most recent)

- Since Nov.02: User support for the XMM-Newton satellite of the ESA (European Space Agency), under INSA contract, at the ESA/VILSPA station, Spain.

- Feb.01 to Nov.02: Instrument controller (INSCON) for the XMM-Newton satellite at the ESA/VILSPA station, Spain.

- Oct.99 to Jan.01: Computer Operator for the XMM-Newton satellite at VILSPA station, Spain.

- Mar.98 to Sep.99: Guest astronomer at the ESA station, VILSPA, Spain.

- Aug.95 to Feb.98: Resident Astronomer for the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) satellite, ESA-VILSPA station, Spain.

- Sep.91 to Jun.95: "Collaborator" at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (project 10/86), Tenerife, Spain.

- Jul.88 to Dec.90: Assistant Researcher, Astrophysics Department, INPE (Space Research Institut), Brazil.

- Jul.88: Designated for an Assistant Researcher permanent position of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina, after a leave of two years I resigned for family reasons.

- Jul.81 to Jun.88: Staff Member of the Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía (IAR) (on leave from Jan. 1985 to Dec. 1987).

- Jan.85 to Dec.87: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG) fellowship at the Max- Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR), Bonn, Germany.

- 1979 to 1981: Fellow of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) at IAR. Category: "Perfeccionamiento".

- 1977 to 1979: Fellow of the CONICET at IAR. Category: "Iniciación".

- 1980: Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Engeneering, Universidad de la Marina Mercante, Buenos Aires.

- 1974: Assistant of the Mathematics Department of the Faculty of Sciences of t he Universidad of Buenos Aires.

 

 

Professional Experience

 

Observational astronomy experience in radio, optical, ultraviolet and X-rays, using ground- and space-based telescopes: 30m radiotelescope of IAR (Argentina), 100m at Effelsberg (Germany), 30m of Pico Veleta (IRAM, Spain), VLA (USA), 15m SEST (ESO, Chile), ESO-1m (Chile), WHT of 4.2m (La Palma, Spain), IUE and XMM satellites.

Software development and data analysis. Utilization of packages for data reduction: AIPS, IDL, IRAF, NOD2, GREG, MIDAS, etc, under VMS, UNIX and LINUX. Knowledge of WINDOWS and its associated software (Word Perfect, Excel, etc). Design of WWW facilities in HTML. Installation of Grenoble's software package GAG in INPE's VAX (1989) and in IAC's VAX (1992), and of IRAF in a VILSPA PC (under LINUX).

XMM-Newton instruments control:In addition to the nominal duties of INSCONS, I involved myself in:

Identification of relevant problems of QLA (facility for live analysis of XMM data)
Suggestions of changes and participation in discussions for improvements of the OLB (operations log browser) and data quality flags.
Elaboration of a procedure for the observation of ToO targets and collaboration in the Pointing Change Request procedure (after participating together with M.Santos in a significant detection of a GRB and consequent change of pointing, together with P. Rodríguez).
Collaboration with B.Altieri in the elaboration of statistics of performed time with the PN camera until revolution 250, and interactions with instrument responsible scientists for the analysis of different problems of the instruments.
Participation in the SAS workshop (VILSPA, 15-18 April 2002) introducing to the reduction of XMM-Newton data.
Elaboration of an album of selected raw images of every kind of object detected with XMM-Newton, for public relations (visitors of the control room), etc.

IUE astronomical operations:

Preparation of observations and real time observations for the guest astronomers of the IUE satellite during its last episode.
Member of the IUE Targets of Opportunity team for Comets.
Responsible for archived IUE data distribution until the creation of direct access facilities,
Partly responsible for the quality control, helpdesk, etc (see The IUE Data Handling, http://iuearc.vilspa.esa.es/help/data_handling.html).
Preparation together with N. Schartel of the Documentation of INES in PDF and in HTML, to be recorded in CD ROMs (see: IUE Newly Extracted Spectra Documentation: http://ines.vilspa.esa.es/ines/docs/contents.html), etc.

Scientific committees:

Referee of a dissertation (C. Rabaca, 1988) and a PhD thesis (C. Tateyama, 1990) and delivery of the course of "Técnicas de Radioastronomía" (PhD in astronomy level) (1991) at INPE, Brazil.
Referee for the paper 'A Radio-Optical Survey of the North Ecliptic Cap' (Lacy et al. 1995, MNRAS 276, 614).

Time allocation committees:

Responsible of the 30m radiotelescope time allocation at IAR, Argentina, from 1980 to 1984.
Member of the time allocation committee for the Itapetinga radiotelescope, Brasil, 1988 - 1989.

Seminars and talks given at IAR (Argentina); at the Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM (México); at the Observatoire de Strasbourg (France); at the MPI für Radioastronomie, Bonn (Germany); at the Istituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna (Italy); at Obsevatorio Nacional, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), at INPE (Brazil), etc.

Member of astronomical societies: member of the International Astronomical Union (since 1985), of the Asociación Argentina de Astronomía (1978 - 1988), of the Sociedade Astronomica Brasileira (1990-1991), and of the Sociedad Española de Astronomía (since 1996).

Knowledge of languages: Spanish (mother tongue), English, French and Portuguese. Basic knowledge of German and Italian.

Scientific Meetings Attended (starting by the most recent ones) ([+]: with oral and/or poster presentation; [-]: attendance without presentation)

[+] ISO to the Peaks, Villafranca del Castillo, Spain. Feb.2-4. 2000.
[+] Micro Cosmos- Macro Cosmos, Aachen, Germany. Sep. 2-5 1998.
[+] Ultraviolet Astrophysics Beyond the IUE Final Archive, Sevilla, Spain. Nov. 1997.
[+] Observational Cosmology with the New Radio Surveys, Tenerife, Spain Jan. 1997.
[-] 3rd. Annual EVN/JIVE Symposium, Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Oct. 1996.
[-] Key Problems in Astronomy, Tenerife, Spain. Jan. 1995.
[+] XXIInd General Assembly of the IAU, The Hague, Holland (with IAU support) August 1994.
[-] V Canary Islands Winter School The Formation of Galaxies, Tenerife, Spain. Dec. 1993.
[-] IV Canary Islands Winter School Infrared Astronomy, Tenerife, Spain. Dec. 1992.
[+] VIIth Latin-American Regional Meeting of the IAU, Viña del Mar, Chile. Nov. 1992.
[+] Workshop The Nearest Active Galaxies, Madrid, Spain. May 1992.
[+] III Canary Islands Winter School Star Formation in Stellar Systems, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain. Dec. 1991.
[+] XXIth General Assembly of the IAU, Buenos Aires, Argentina (with IAU support). July 1991
[+] XVIIth annual meeting of the Brasilian Astronomical Society, Caxambu, Brazil (with FAPESP support). Aug. 1990
[+] VIth Latin-American Regional Meeting of the IAU, Gramado, Brazil, (with FAPESP support). Oct. 1989
[+] IAU Symposium no. 140 Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields, Heidelberg, FRG, (with IAU support). Jun. 1989
[+] Workshop Magnetic Fields and Extragalactic Objects, Cargèse, France, (with MPG support). May 1987
[+] Vth Latin-American Regional Meeting of the IAU, Mérida, México, (with IAU support). Oct.1986
[-] Workshop Interstellar Magnetic Fields, Schloss Ringberg, FRG, (with MPG support). Sep. 1986
[-] XIX General Assembly of the IAU, New Delhi, India, (with IAU support). Nov. 1985
[-] Workshop Star Forming Dwarf Galaxies and Related Objects, Paris, France, (with MPG support). Jul. 1985
[-] Workshop Energetic Particles and their Effect on SNR, Galaxies and Jets, Schloss Ringberg, FRG, (with MPG support). Mar. 1985
[+] IIId Latin-American Regional Meeting of the IAU, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 1983.
[+] IId Latin-American Regional Meeting of the IAU, Mérida, Venezuela, (with IAU support). Jan. 1981.
[+] International School of the IAU for Young Astronomers, Rio de Janeiro, (with IAU support). Nov.-Dec. 1977
[+] From 1978 to 1983, participation in all the annual meetings of the Asociación Argentina de Astronomía.

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