Alain Omont
Research Director at CNRS

Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
98 bis boulevard Arago
75014 Paris
France

Office 143, 1st floor
Mail : omont@iap.fr
Phone : +33 (0)1 44 32 80 71
Fax: +33 (0)1 44 32 80 01
 


 Curriculum Vitae


  • Ecole Normale Supérieure
  • CNRS and "Thèse d'Etat" at Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Hertzienne de l'ENS
  • 1968-1979 Professor at Paris University (Paris 7)
  • 1971 (6 months) and 1978 (6 months) Detached (University of Colorado)
  • 1979-1990 Professor at University of Grenoble
  • 1979-1990 Director of "Groupe d'Astrophysique" of Grenoble
  • 1985-1990 First director at Observatory of Grenoble
  • 1990- "Directeur de recherche" at CNRS (IAP)
  • 1990-1997 Director of "Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris"
  • 1991-1992 General reporter of Research and Technology White Book Région Rhône-Alpes
  • 1993-1996 Member of Scientific Council of the Indo-French for the Promotion of Advanced Research
  • 2000-2003 Member of the Visiting Committee of ESO
  • 2000- Member of National Committee of Scientific Programs of CNES

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 Distinctions

  • Chevalier dans l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur
  • Grand Prix Robin de la Société Française de Physique
 Research Activities

  • Research Themes
    • Before 1975 Atomic physics: optical pumping and atomic collisions
    • 1975- Milimeter radioastronomy
    • 1978-2003 Circumstellar chemistry, dust and AGB stars
    • 1985- Infrared surveys
    • 1992- High redshift dust and molecules


 

 

 

    • High-z supermassive infrared objects

-  Herschel surveys (under construction)

- Millimetre detection of dust emission of luminous high-z QSOS
[Main collaborators: A. Beelen (IAS ), C. Willott (Victoria), Ran Wang (Tucson), P. Cox (IRAM), F. Bertoldi (Bonn), C. Carilli (NRAO), X. Fan (Tucson & SDSS)]

- Millimetre identification of Hyper-Luminous Infra-Red Galaxies among sources of the SWIRE/Spitzer survey
[Main collaborators: C. Lonsdale & M. Polletta (UCSD), P. Cox & R. Zylka (IRAM)]

- Search and maps of CO emission of high-z sub-millimetre galaxies with IRAM-PdB
[Main collaborators: R. Genzel (MPE Garching), R. Ivison (Edinburgh), R. Neri & P. Cox (IRAM), T. Greve (Caltech), L. Tacconi (MPE Garching) et al.]

- CO search in high-z QSOs
[Main collaborators: Ran Wang (Tucson), P. Cox & R. Neri (IRAM), I. Smail (Durham) et al.]

 Scientific documentation