MUSE Meeting in Aussois

Joseph/ June 10, 2013/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

Last week I was at a meeting in Aussois about an upcoming spectrograph for the VLT called MUSE (which stands for Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer). Members of the consortium met to share the latest developments and update each other on various aspects of the instrument. It was my first time in Aussois, an incredibly beautiful small town in the Rhône-Alpes region in South East France. We were lucky with the weather and managed to go on a nice (if quite tough) mountain hike. These are some of the pictures snapped during

My Favourite View in Leiden

Back from the Netherlands where I was attending the last ELIXIR network meeting. It was great to meet all the scientists in the network, the people who became such great friends over the last three years. Other than being an occasion to present the full results attained over the course of the network, it was a time for farewells as we have now dispersed all over the globe (literally). Here’s a postcard which shows my favourite view in Leiden; I think it should serve as a nice reminder of the last