Gaia People

Steve Boudreault

Observatoire de Paris-Meudon

Steve Boudreault is a Gaia Computer Scientist at the Paris Observatory, Meudon site. He is working on the project FP7 Genius and CU9 for the validation of the scientific data from Gaia.

After a degree in Physics at Laval University in Quebec City and a Master degree at Montreal University in Montreal (Canada), Steve moved to Heidelberg (Germany) where he obtained his PhD in 2008 at Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg with a thesis about the formation of brown dwarfs.

After a short period at Stony Brook University as a visiting astronomer, Steve joined the Gaia team at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory as a Gaia data flow system scientist at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory within the CU6 (Spectroscopic Processing) group. His main task was to work on the calibration of the bias non-uniformity that will affect the Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer and Photometer.

Before he joined the Paris Observatory, Steve was based at the Insituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in Tenerife as a postdoctoral research staff.

His astronomical interests include brown dwarfs, open clusters, stellar and substellar mass functions, and optical/near infrared photometry and spectroscopy.

[Published: 16/11/2010; Updated 04/12/2013]