Pascal A. Oesch Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, JWG 469, P.O. Box 208120, New Haven, CT 06520 Phone: +1 203 432 1265! E-Mail: pascal.oesch@yale.edu Web: www.astro.yale.edu/poesch Research Interests First Galaxies and the Epoch of Reionization Galaxy Build-up and Evolution across Cosmic Time Stellar Population Modeling and Spectroscopic Follow-up Academic Positions Oct 2013 present Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, New Haven, USA YCAA Prize Fellowship 2010 2013 UC Santa Cruz, UCO/Lick Observatory, USA Hubble Fellowship 2006 2010 ETH Zurich, Switzerland Research and Teaching Assistant 2004 2006 ETH Zurich, Switzerland Teaching Assistant Education 2010 PhD in Physics; ETH Zurich, Switzerland 13 Gyr of Galaxy Evolution ; Advisor: Prof. C. Marcella Carollo 2006 Masters in Physics; ETH Zurich, Switzerland The faint-end slope of the z~5 UV Luminosity Function Honors and Awards 2013 YCAA Fellowship 2010 Hubble Fellowship 2010 ETH Medal for outstanding PhD Thesis 2009 ETH Extragalactic Astrophysics Excellence Award CV Pascal Oesch Page 1 / 5
Research Grants 2014 2016 $937 989 (final amount pending) from several HST cycle 22 programs 2014 $80 000 from Spitzer/IRAC program 10076 Observing Experience and Selected Proposals 2014, HST C22 PI of large legacy WFC3/UVIS imaging program GO-13872: The GOODS UV Legacy Fields: A Full Census of Faint Star-Forming Galaxies at z~0.5-2 PI of grism spectroscopy program GO-13871: A Spectroscopic Redshift for the Most Luminous Galaxy Candidate at z~10 CoI of WFC3/IR imaging program GO-13767: Bright Galaxies at Hubble's Detection Frontier: The redshift z~9-10 BoRG pure-parallel survey CoI of Theory program AR-13897: Clusters of Galaxies in the last 5 Billion Years: from the Brightest Cluster Galaxy to the Intra-Cluster Light CoI of WFC3/IR imaging program GO-13792: A Complete Census of the Bright z~9-10 Galaxies in the CANDELS Data Set 2014, ALMA C2 CoI of three approved programs with rank B 2013.1.00151.S: The gas content and gas depletion time of massive, normal star forming galaxies beyond z=3 2013.1.00718.S: An ALMA 1.3 mm spectroscopic survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2013.1.00146.S: A Molecular ALMA Deep Field in the UDF 2011 2014 12 nights Keck Observing with DEIMOS, LRIS, NIRSPEC, and MOSFIRE 2013, Spitzer C10 PI of Spitzer/IRAC Exploration Science Program 10076 The ultra-deep IRAC Legacy over GOODS: From the Earliest Galaxies to the Peak of Cosmic Star-Formation 200 hrs (priority 2) + 612.5 hrs (priority 3) of IRAC imaging 2013, HST C21 CoI of HST large legacy archival program 13252 High level science products from deep ACS and WFC3/IR imaging over the CDF- S/GOODS-S region 2013, Gemini 13B PI of Gemini program GS-2013B-Q-59 Emission Line Strengths and Gas-Phase Metallicities for the Massive Galaxy Population at z~3-4 6.5 hrs of FLAMINGOS-2 spectroscopy 2012, HST C20 CoI of HST program 12905 Unveiling the structure of the farthest galaxy protocluster: WFC3 imaging of a z~8 galaxy overdensity 18 orbits of WFC3 imaging 2011, ESO P89 CoI of ESO VLT proposal 089.A-0898 Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Large Sample of Bright z~6.1-6.8 Lyman Break CV Pascal Oesch Page 2 / 5
Galaxy Candidates in the CANDELS UDS Field with FORS2 17 hrs FORS2 optical spectroscopy 2011, HST C19 CoI of HST program 12572 The Brightest of Reionizing Galaxies Pure Parallel Survey 260 orbits of pure parallel WFC3 imaging 2011, ESO P88 PI of ESO VLT proposal 088.A-0633 Lya Emission at z~8: Probing the Ionization State of the Universe ~650 Myr after the Big Bang 42h X-Shooter NIR spectroscopy 2011, ESO P88 CoI of ESO VLT proposal 088.A-1008 Spectroscopic Confirmation of A Few Bright (and One Uniquely Bright) z~7 Galaxy Candidates in the CDF-South GOODS with FORS2 9 hrs FORS2 optical spectroscopy 2009, ESO P83 CoI of ESO VLT proposal 283.A-5063 Spectroscopic Redshifts in the Reionization Era: 25 z ~7 Galaxies from HST WFC3/IR ERS and HUDF09 data 19 hrs FORS2 optical spectroscopy 2009, ESO P83 CoI of ESO VLT proposal 183.A-0781 High-resolution SINFONI+AO tomography of z=2 star-forming galaxies: witnessing the growth of disks and bulges. 75 hrs SINFONI spectroscopy March 2009 La Silla, Observing Run 177.A-0680(D), 3 nights WFI-imaging 2008, ESO P82 PI of ESO VLT proposal 082.A-0890 A spectroscopic follow-up of the UDF05 project: Redshift confirmation of a LBG candidate at z>9 16 hrs SINFONI J-band spectroscopy 2008, HST C17 CoI of HST program 11563 Galaxies at z~7-10 in the Reionization Epoch: Luminosity Functions to <0.2L* from Deep IR Imaging of the HUDF and HUDF05 Fields 192 orbits of WFC3 NIR imaging 2008, HST C17 CoI of HST program 11648 WFC3 spectroscopy of an X-ray luminous galaxy cluster at z>2 18 orbits of WFC3 NIR spectroscopy Community Activities 2009 present Referee for ApJ, ApJL, MNRAS, MNRAS-Letters, A&A 2014 Organizer of Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar Series 2014 Panel Member of Yale Telescope Time Allocation Committee 2014 Member of Local Organizing Committee for Yale Frontier Field Workshop 2013 Panel Member Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 21 TAC CV Pascal Oesch Page 3 / 5
2013 Referee for CFHT time allocation of Taiwan 2012 PhD thesis committee member for Valentino Gonzalez, UCSC 2012 Organizer Journal Club UCSC 2007 2008 Organizer of Annual Team Workshop Institute of Astronomy ETH Zurich Teaching & Mentoring Experience 2014 Supervision of first year postdoc hired from HST grants, Yale University 2012 Supervision of first year graduate student projects as part of graduate class ASTR 240B, UC Santa Cruz 2008/2009 Supervision of six Master student projects, ETH Zurich 2005 2010 Teaching Assistant Physics Department, ETH Zurich Astronomy 1, Physics of the Interstellar Medium, and Introductory Physics 2004 2005 Teaching Assistant Mathematics Department, ETH Zurich Analysis and Numerical Algebra Outreach January 2014 September 2012 January 2011 January 2010 December 2009 June 2009 Primary Author of STScI Press Release STScI-2014-05a: NASA Great Observatories Team Up to Discover Ultra-Bright Young Galaxies Core Team Member of XDF image release (STScI-2012-37): Hubble Goes to the extreme to Assemble Farthest Ever View of the Universe Two public webinar interviews with the STScI and with the Kavli Foundation Core Team Member of STScI Press Release STScI-2011-05: NASA's Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever Seen in Universe Core Team Member of STScI Press Release STScI-2010-02: Hubble Reaches the "Undiscovered Country" of Primeval Galaxies Core Team Member of STScI Press Release STScI-2009-31: Hubble's Deepest View of Universe Unveils Never-Before-Seen Galaxies International Year of Astronomy Co-Organizer of poster exhibition at ETH Zurich for the public Conferences & Workshops November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 March 2014 Invited talk at the Yale Frontier Field Workshop, Yale University Invited astronomy colloquium, UT Austin Invited talk at Arepo Team Meeting, Harvard University Seminar talk, Geneva Observatory CV Pascal Oesch Page 4 / 5
March 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 July 2013 June 2013 June 2013 April 2013 March 2013 August 2012 Talk at the conference Science with the Hubble Space Telescope IV, Rome Invited talk at the WISH workshop, NAOJ Tokyo Invited Physics Colloquium, University of Kentucky Invited YCAA Seminar, Yale Talk at conference Reionization in the Red Center, Uluru Australia Talk at conference Cosmic Dawn at Ringberg, Ringberg Castle Königstuhl Colloquium, MPIA Heidelberg Invited Colloquium, University of Nevada Las Vegas Invited Talk at Hubble Fellow Symposium, STScI Talk at the 2012 Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop, Santa Cruz April 2012 Talk at the conference The Epoch of Reionization: Theory Simulations Observations, Strasbourg March 2012 February 2012 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 March 2011 January 2010 November 2008 July 2008 February 2008 Invited Talk at the Hubble Fellow Symposium, STScI Invited Talk at First Light and Faintest Dwarfs, Santa Barbara Talk at Young & Bright: Understanding High-z Structures, Potsdam Talk at the Galaxy Evolution Workshop, Santa Cruz Talk at the New Horizons for High Redshifts, Cambridge Talk at the COSMOS Science Meeting, Zurich Invited Talk at the Hubble Fellows Symposium, Caltech Talk at the AAS Meeting, Washington DC Talk at Fitting the spectral energy distributions of galaxies, Leiden Talk at Far away: Light in the Young Universe at Redshift > 3, IAP Talk at The First Two Billion Years of Galaxy Formation: The Reionization Epoch and Beyond, Aspen Academic References G. D. Illingworth, UC Santa Cruz, United States, gdi@ucolick.org, +1-831-459-2843 P. G. van Dokkum, Yale University, United States, pieter.vandokkum@yale.edu, +1-203-432-3000 C. M. Carollo, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, marcella@phys.ethz.ch, +41-44-633-3725 R. J. Bouwens, Leiden University, Netherlands, bouwens@strw.leidenuniv.nl, +31-71-527-8456 M. Franx, Leiden University, Netherlands, franx@strw.leidenuniv.nl, +31-71-527-5870 M. Stiavelli, STScI, United States, mstiavel@stsci.edu, +1-410-338-4835 CV Pascal Oesch Page 5 / 5