• Laure Ciesla
  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Astrophysics


About me

I'm a postdoc researcher working at CEA (France) in collaboration with David Elbaz on the Star Formation History of Galaxies.

During my PhD at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (France), I studied the dust properties of the local galaxies of the Herschel Reference Survey (PI: S. Eales, Boselli et al. 2010), a sample designed to be representative of the local universe, under the supervision of Alessandro Boselli. I acquired an extensive expertise in Herschel data and in the analysis and modeling of the infrared SED of galaxies.

From studying the local universe and normal star forming galaxies, I extended my research interest to the UV-to-radio emission of high redshift galaxies and Actve Galactic Nuclei in collaboration with Vassilis Charmandaris at the University of Crete (Greece).

I am now at CEA working on extragalactic deep surveys as part of the ASTRODEEP PF7 to study the star formation history of galaxies. From January, 1st, I will be at LAM (Marseille, France) starting a CNES fellowship on the study of Gamma Ray Burst host galaxies and the telescope SVOM.

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Contact

Laure Ciesla
Laboratoire AIM Paris-Saclay
CEA/IRFU/SAp, Universite Paris Diderot
Orme des Merisiers, Building 709
F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
+33 (0) 1 69 08 88 12

laure.ciesla@cea.fr


Research

Publications

Refereed Papers as First and Second Author

  • On the SFR-Mstar main sequence archetypal star-formation history and analytical models.
  • Ciesla L., Elbaz D., and Fensch J.
    2017, A&A, in press.
  • The physical properties of Spitzer/IRS galaxies derived from their UV to 22 microns spectral energy distribution.
  • Vika M., Ciesla L., Charmandaris V., Xilouris E.M. and Lebouteiller V.
    2016, A&A, 597, 51
  • The imprint of rapid star formation quenching on the spectral energy distributions of galaxies.
  • Ciesla L., Boselli A., Elbaz D., Boissier S., et al.
    2016, A&A, 585, 43
  • Constraining the properties of AGN host galaxies with spectral energy distribution modelling.
  • Ciesla L., Charmandaris V., Georgakakis A., Berhnard E., Mitchell P.D., et al.
    2015, A&A, 576, 10
  • Dust spectral energy distributions of nearby galaxies: an insight from the Herschel Reference Survey.
  • Ciesla L., Boquien M., Boselli A., Buat V., Cortese L., et al.
    2014, A&A, 565, 128
  • Submillimetre photometry of 323 nearby galaxies from the Herschel Reference Survey.
  • Ciesla L., Boselli A., Smith M., Bendo G.J., Cortese L., Eales S., Bianchi S. et al.
    2012, A&A, 543, 161
  • The dust scaling relations of the Herschel Reference Survey.
  • Cortese L., Ciesla L., Boselli A., Bianchi S., Gomez H., et al.
    2012, A&A, 540, 52
  • Far-infrared colours of nearby late-type galaxies in the Herschel Reference Survey.
  • Boselli A., Ciesla L., Cortese L., Buat V., Boquien M., Bendo G.J., Boissier S., Eales S. et al.
    2012, A&A, 540, 54
  • FIR colours and SEDs of nearby galaxies observed with Herschel.
  • Boselli A., Ciesla L., Buat V., Cortese L., et al.
    2010, A&A, 518, L61




    Time allocations on international facilities

  • The puzzle of a lensed source with no lens. IRAM/30m (6h) DDT, PI
  • HRS188-7: Possibly, the most extreme submm galaxy ever detected. VLT/Xshooter (6h), co-I (PI: T. Diaz-Santos)
  • Unveiling the nature of HRS188-7. WHT (1 night), science PI (PI: M. Boquien)
  • Unveiling the nature of HRS188-7. VLA (10h), PI
  • Optical spectroscopy of Sloan compact galaxy groups at intermediate redshift. 2.1m San Pedro Martir (6 nights), co-I (PI: T. Bitsakis)
  • Extreme submillimeter galaxy at z=3.2. GBT/Zpectrometer (6h), PI
  • Dust content in a merger of two very-high-mass galaxies at z=3.2. IRAM/NIKA (1h), co-I (PI: M. Bethermin)
  • Completing the PACS coverage of the Herschel Reference Survey. Herschel/PACS (51h), co-I (PI: L. Cortese)
  • The Herschel Fornax Cluster Survey. Herschel (32h), co-I (PI: J. Davies)




  • CV

    Research experience




    2015-

    Research assistant
    CEA Service d'Astrophysique, France

    2013-2015

    Research assistant, 3 years
    University of Crete, Physics Department, Greece

    2009-2012

    PhD Student, 3 years
    Study of the physical properties of local galaxies with Herschel
    with Alessandro Boselli
    Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France

    2009

    Internship, 3 months
    Morphology of Spitzer sources amplified by the Abell2218 cluster
    with Olivier Ilbert and Jean-Paul Kneib
    Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France

    2008

    Internship, 3 months
    Accretion-ejection coupling in the X binary XTE J1550-564
    with Stephane Corbel
    CEA Service d'Astrophysique, France

    2006

    Internship, 2 months
    Study of the Saturn's rings with Cassini
    with Sebastien Charnoz
    CEA Service d'Astrophysique, France


    Education




    2012

    PhD in Astrophysics and Cosmology.
    Aix-Marseille University, France

    2009

    Master degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
    Paris Obervatory and Paris VII University, France

    2007

    Bachelor in Fundamental Physics.
    Paris Obervatory and Paris VII University, France