Hervé Dole

Hervé Dole

University of Paris-Saclay

Physics and Chemistry

I’m an astrophysicist studying the formation and the evolution of galaxy clusters and galaxies.

In more details, I’m a professor at the Université Paris-Saclay in Orsay, at the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS). In 2014-15, I was deputy Director of IAS. Before, I was a Research Associate at the University of Arizona on a NASA mission.

I’m interested in the emergence of large scale structure in the Universe, esp. galaxy proto-clusters, and the role of infrared galaxies in the history of the Universe, and try to understand the physical processes driving the formation and the evolution of galaxies. To do so, I’m observing galaxies and the Cosmic Infrared Background (the relic emission of galaxies) with infrared space telescopes of ESA (ISO, Planck, Herschel) and NASA (Spitzer) and also develop new analysis tools and models. I’m heavily involved now in teh ESA osmology mission Euclid.

In 2020-24, I’m Vice-President of the University Paris-Saclay in Art, Culture, Science and Society.