CV
Basics
| Full name | Bastien Carreres |
| Date of birth | August, 3rd 1997 |
| bastien.carreres@duke.edu |
Education
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2023 Marseille, France
PhD -- Astrophysics and Cosmology
Aix-Marseille Université - Thesis title: Measurement of the growth rate of structures with Type Ia Supernovae of the ZTF photometric survey.
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2020 Grenoble, France
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2018 Montpellier, France
Research Experience
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Nov. 2023 - Present Durham, NC, USA
Post-doctoral Associate
Duke UniversitySupervisor: Prof. Dan Scolnic. Subjects: Cosmology with low-z SNe Ia, peculiar velocities, survey simulation, data analysis.
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Oct. 2020 - Sept. 2023 Marseille, France
PhD candidate
Centre de Physique des Particules de MarseilleSupervisors: Drs. Dominique Fouchez, Benjamin Racine et Julian Bautista. Subjects: SNe Ia cosmology, growth rate of structure measurement, peculiar velocities, survey simulation.
Teaching Experience
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Sept. 2020 - June 2023 Marseille, France
PhD candidate with teaching duties
Aix-Marseille Université- 64h / year. Bachelor's lectures in basic physics: Electricity, Optics, Thermodynamics
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Oct. 2017 - Dec. 2017 Montpellier, France
Calculus tutoring
Université de Montpellier- Tutoring for first-year college students.
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Sept. 2016 - June 2018 Math tutoring
- Independant tutoring for middle-school and high-school students.
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Student Mentoring
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Sept. 2024 - June 2025 Graduate student project supervision
Duke University- Subject: Estimation of the velocity power spectrum in a N-body simulation.
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Nov. 2023 - Present PhD student Mentoring
Duke University- Maria Acevedo -- Subject: Cosmology with the DEBASS survey.
Responsibilities & Services
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Jan. 2026 - Present -
Apr. 2025 - Sept. 2025 Member of the SOC of the DESC Peculiar Velocities workshop
Workshop took place at the Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, France
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Apr. 2025 - Sept. 2025 Member of the SOC of the 2025 DESC summer meeting
Meeting tootk place at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
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Feb. 2025 - Present -
Dec. 2024 - Present -
Sept. 2021 - June 2023
Grants & Fellowships
- 2025
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship
European Commission
Project "PEGASUS": Probing dark Energy and Gravity through Analysis of the growth of Structure Using Supernovae
- Amount: €276,187
- Host organisation: University of Oxford, UK
- Awarded with an evaluation score of 99.4/100 (top 1.62% of 1669 proposals in the EF-PHY panel)
- 2021
- 2020
Skills
| Programming Languages | |
| Python (Expert) | |
| C/C++ (Novice) | |
| HTML/CSS (Novice) |
| Cosmology software and library | |
| SNANA | |
| SNCosmo | |
| CAMB | |
| Class |
| Python library | |
| numpy | |
| numba | |
| dask | |
| jax |
Languages
| French | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| Fluent |