In April 2007, the asteroid numbered 1989SO8 was named “(6639) Marchis” in honor of his work in the field of multiple asteroids. He is best known for his discovery and characterization of multiple asteroids, his study of Io volcanism and imaging of exoplanets, planets around other stars. He is a planetary astronomer with 22 years of experience in academic, international and non-profit scientific institutions and has conducted multiple research projects in a wide range of areas. Marchis earned his PhD in Astrophysics at the Université Paul Sabatier, France, in 2000. Franck Marchis is a Senior Scientist and Science Outreach Manager at the SETI Institute and Chief Scientific Officer at Unistellar. No science discussion today, maybe tomorrow.ĭr. I realized that I have been working at the department of astronomy for 8 years, meaning that I arrived in the US just before the election of G.W. The university is well-reputed and gives access to various libraries, laboratories, a large pool of motivated and smart students, facilities such as the Lick Observatory and the Keck Observatory, a great gymnasium and swimming pools, and a vigorous scientific life. I have a few more direct collaborators at UC-Berkeley, in particular Mike Wong, also researcher at UC-Berkeley, Conor Laver, postdoc, and Prof. It is however very convenient for them to have me nearby when I am around. It is not common for a researcher/professor to share his office with students. In October 2008, I finally managed to set up all our computers in a global network (thanks to the help of my friend Cory) and they are accessible from almost everywhere through Internet, meaning that I do not need to be in the office to work with them, which is good since I am working 50% of my time at SETI Institute.This is the group of students who work closely with me at UC-Berkeley. When both are here, I am using a small desk on the foreground and my laptop (also a Mac) to work.
#BERKELEY OFFICE FOR MAC PRO#
She usually uses my Apple Mac Pro on the left of the picture, but she will be back only next week. She has been working on the gigantic database that we implemented a few months ago containing the characteristics of all binary asteroid systems known. She is the newest member of our group and she will most likely replace Brent when he leaves for graduate school. His desk is near the window on the right and where he has his own Apple iMac. I will most likely hire him as a lab assistant at SETI Institute in Spring 2009. He helped me a lot for my research converting and improving my IDL programs to analyze lightcurve of asteroids in a fastest language called Python. He decided to take a road trip thoughout the US in Jan-Feb to visit all the universities that he has been applying for. He is applying to graduate school in aerospace engineering and left officially UC-Berkeley in December.
There are three desks in this large office since I am sharing it with various undergraduate students. You can see that I am lucky enough to have a large window and a balcony. I am attaching a picture for your enjoyment. No magical fairy came during christmas and cleaned it up or re-organized it unfortunately :-). This morning I took a picture of my office when I just arrived.
#BERKELEY OFFICE FOR MAC FREE#
I am in the train ( BART) going back to home and I decided to spend this free time writting my blog… I think I have still 2 days for the other important tasks so let’s hope tomorrow will be a more efficient day. The goals of the day is to prepare the night of observation for the Very Large Telescope in Chile (see details next post available soon), reply to all the important emails that I received while being in vacation (still 852 emails to check), write the abstract for the LPSC conference (see link) due on Thursday, prepare the proposals to ask for time on the 1m-telescope due on Wednesday, clean my office, reply to my students’ email about the letters of recommendation, send greeting emails to my colleagues for New Year ….Is there is a way that I could end this to-do list in one day?!Įnd of the day (6:30pm = 18:30) and I did the most important part of my to-do list, I prepare the observations for the VLT, clean my office and send emails to my students and colleagues. I am sliding on my rolling chair from one computer to another one, typing frenetically on the keyboard to be more efficient.
#BERKELEY OFFICE FOR MAC FULL#
It is 8am o’clock, I am already in my office, the brain full of resolutions and motivations. My first official day of the year in my office at UC-Berkeley.
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