A.J. Banday Planck Scientist Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements 9, av du Colonel Roche, BP 44346 31028 Toulouse Cedex 4 France Tel   : +33 (0)5 61 55 77 78 Fax  : +33 (0)5 61 55 67 01

I was a research scientist at the Max-Planck Institut für Astrophysik in Garching, Germany between 1996 and 2008. I have now moved to the Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements (CESR) in Toulouse, France where I am a Directeur de Recherche. I also hold an ANR "Chaires d'excellence (2008) Junior Longue Duree" award for the program "Confronting the Copernican Principle and Cosmological Isotropy with CMB temperature and polarisation data".

My research still focuses on the support of the ESA satellite mission Planck. Within the project, I have particular responsibilities towards various aspects of data simulation, processing and foreground modelling. My main research interests are concerned with studies of anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background, the Astrophysics of the Diffuse Interstellar Medium, and the Analysis of Massive Astronomical Data Sets. My interest in the latter area led to participation in the German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory.

Previously, I worked as a member of the NASA project COBE for which John Mather and George Smoot were awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics.

Last modified: 2009-07-22