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Full name Dr. Damien Korber
Position Postdoctoral researcher at Stockholms Universitet
Summary Observational astronomer in extragalactic astrophysics
Languages French (native), English (C1), German (B2), Spanish (A2)

Education

  • 2022.10 - 2026.09

    Versoix, Switzerland 🇨🇭

    PhD in Science, specialisation in astronomy and astrophysics
    Université de Genève
    • Statistically analysing the JWST photometric and spectroscopic data of z>6 galaxies behind the Abell S1063 lensing field. Additional contribution in the field of 'little red dots'. More detail in /publications/.
    • Thesis: 'The contribution of the faintest galaxies in re-ionising the Universe' (available here)
    • Supervision by Daniel Schaerer
  • 2020.09 - 2022.08

    Ecublens, Switzerland 🇨🇭

    Master in Science in physics
    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
    • Master thesis: 'Accelerating radiative transfer simulations with physics-informed neural networks' (Supervision: M. Bianco and E. Tolley, results published in Korber+23)
    • Specialisation project: 'LiSa: Lightweight HI source finding for the next generation radio surveys' (Supervision: E. Tolley and M. Sargent, results published in Tolley+22)
  • 2016.09 - 2020.08

    Ecublens, Switzerland 🇨🇭

    Bachelor in Science in physics
    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Work

  • 2026.10 - Present

    Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

    Postdoctoral researcher
    Stockholms Universitet
    Researcher in Angela Adamo's group. Pushing the research of stellar clumps to the Epoch of Reionisation.
  • 2024.05 - 2026.03

    Geneva, Switzerland 🇨🇭

    Scientific mediator
    Université de Genève
    Part-time scientific mediator for the Astroscope at UniGE. I am giving an interactive class about astronomy to Geneva schools, with various physics experiments.

References

Prof. Daniel Schaerer
PhD thesis supervisor (Université de Genève)
PI of the 'Starburst in the Universe' group.
Dr. Hakim Atek
Co-PI of the GLIMPSE collaboration (Institut d'astrophysique de Paris)
Prof. John Chisholm
Co-PI of the GLIMPSE collaboration (University of Texas)
Dr. Rui Marques-Chaves
Close collaborator (Université de Genève)