Gaia People

Berry Holl

Observatoire de Genève

Berry Holl has been involved in Gaia since 2007, when he started his Ph.D in Lund on the "Characterization and analysis of the astrometric errors in the global astrometric solution for Gaia" under the supervision of Lennart Lindegren, and within the EU Marie Curie Research Training Network ELSA (European Leadership in Space Astrometry). As part of his Ph.D he developed important parts of AGISLab: a java software that enables elaborate simulations and experiments for Gaia astrometry. Additionally he has been involved in the calibration issues related to radiation damage of the Gaia CCDs.

Since 2012 Berry has been working on the Variability Processing (CU7) in Geneva where he takes part in the scientific management and focusses his work on classification activities and the detection of eclipsing binaries. Additionally, he is concerned with the inter-CU dependence of data related to CU7 and has lectured on statistics with Gaia.

Before starting his Ph.D, Berry received his Bachelor and Master degree at the Leiden Observatory, which included a one-year master project on ionospheric corrections for the interferometric Low-Frequency Array for radio astronomy (LOFAR).

In his free time Berry enjoys developing outreach material (like the Gaia Nominal Scanning Law movie), photography, and outdoor activities.

Berry's homepage is here.

[Published: 07/04/2014]