Short Curriculum Vitae
- I was born in Arles, a nice town in the south of France.
- I developed early a passionate interest for astrophysics (and for science and mathematics in general).
- From 1986 to 1989, I studied at ENSPG in Grenoble (1986-1989).
- From 1991 to 1993, I did my PhD at LAPP, Annecy, in the Virgo Gravitational Waves experiment, under the supervision of Benoit Mours.
- From 1993 to 1997, I studied neutrino physics and worked in the NOMAD experiment at CERN.
- From 1997 to 2007, I worked in the Virgo experiment, mainly on data acquisition and monitoring tools.
- From 2002 to 2007, I was also in charge of communication and outreach at LAPP.
- Since 2008, I am more involved in detector characterization and noise studies, somewhere between detector's commissioning and data analysis.
- From 2009 to 2014, I was responsible of the "detector characterization" group of Virgo.
- From 2014 to 2017, I focused my activity on transient noise removal and supervised the work of a PhD student on this topic.
- Since 2017, I share my Virgo activity on noise characterization + monitoring tools (for GW alerts and for detector's commissionning) and calibration activities (for reconstruction of the GW signal and for noise removal).
- Since 2021, I am responsible of Hrec, the code that reconstructs the gravitational wave signal h(t) provided to data analyses.

Didier Verkindt