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David Elbaz

David Elbaz is a french observational astrophysicist expert in galaxy evolution as well author of novels.

Since 1994 is a permanent researcher at the Astrophysics Division of the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (CEA Saclay), currently at the level of Director of Research, where he directed the "Cosmology and Evolution of Galaxies" laboratory. He has also served in various administrative position including as scientific advisor to the European Space Agency for the selection of its future space missions (Astronomy Working Group ) and member of the evaluation committee on space research and exploration for the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) in France.

Biography

David Elbaz was born and raised in the Paris métro area. Despite the fact that his high school years were rather difficult (he had to repeat a year when he was at lycée) he did well academically and he was admitted in the well known Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique (ENSPG) in Grenoble, obtaining his undergraduate degree as engineer in 1990. He completed his PhD in Astrophysics in 1994 at the Université Joseph Fourier, also in Grenoble, with a thesis entitled "Origine du fer dans le milieu intra-amas et distribution du gaz X dans les amas de galaxies" His supervisors were James Lequeux et Monique Arnaud. In 2005 he completed his habilitation fro the University of Paris XI.

Awards

• Chrétien Award of the American Astronomical Society (2000)
• Prix Jaffé from the Foundation of the ’Institut de France (2017)
• Member of Academia Europaea (2019)

Publications

David Elbaz has published extensively in various areas of extragalactic observational astrophysics, with nearly 300 scientific refereed papers, which according to Google Scholar have received over 40,000 citations, an h-index more than 100. He has also been recognised for many years, more recently in 2019, as and ISI Highly Cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics.

David Elbaz is also an author of three books.

One is popularizing science, :

• "A la recherche de l'univers invisible, matière noire, énergie sombre, trous noirs", 2016, éditions Odile Jacob

which also received in 2017 the "Prix Sciences et Philosophie", as well as two novels

• "Le vase de Pépi", 2007, éditions Odile Jacob.
• "Et Alice Tao se souvint du futur", 2010, éditions Odile Jacob.

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3. "David Elbaz - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.gr. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
4. "David Elbaz's Publons profile". publons.com. Retrieved 2020-05-30.