Jean-Luc Starck

Dr. Jean-Luc Starck is a Research Professor and Director of Research at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), leading the CosmoStat laboratory since 2010. He specializes in astrophysics, cosmology, and interdisciplinary research at the intersection of statistics and machine learning. His work supports major space missions like ESA's Euclid and Planck, where he coordinates teams developing scientific algorithms for billion-euro missions.

• Affiliations: CEA Astrophysics Department, CosmoStat Lab (20 researchers).
• Education: PhD from Nice Observatory (1992), Habilitation from University Paris XI.

Research Interests: Focuses on cosmological large-scale structures, weak lensing analysis, sparsity techniques, and machine learning applications in astrophysics. His group develops cutting-edge methodologies for space mission data analysis and industry-academia collaborations.

Awards: Recipient of the Gruber Cosmology Prize (2018, ESA Planck team), Tycho Brahe Medal (2022), and 2024 Space Achievement Award. Elected to Academia Europaea in 2021.

Grants & Advising: Secured over €8M in competitive funding, including an Advanced ERC Grant. Oversees Euclid's 250-member algorithm team for end-user scientific products.

Labs/Teams: Heads CosmoStat Lab, collaborating with institutions like Stanford, UCLA, and FORTH. Involved in Euclid's 1500-member international collaboration across 18 countries.