Marc Audard Maitre d'enseignement et de recherche
Email:	Marc.Audard@unige.ch
Office:	Ecogia P105
Telephone:	+41 (22) 379 - 2166
Fax:	+41 (22) 379 - 2133

Research Interests:

- Young stellar objects, pre-main sequence stars, accretion disks, star formation, cool stars, brown dwarfs
- Magnetic activity, coronal heating, flares, chromospheric evaporation (Neupert effect), coronal structures
- Coronal abundances, (inverse)-First Ionization Potential effect, opacity effects, plasma densities
- Other topics: Hot stars, supersoft sources, neutron stars, microquasars
- X-rays, extreme ultraviolet, radio, infrared, millimeter
- XMM-Newton, Chandra, Suzaku, Spitzer, Herschel, IRAM, ALMA, VLA, ATCA, IXO, BeppoSAX, EUVE

Member of the Taurus Molecular Cloud Survey with XMM-Newton and Spitzer.

See my full CV in PDF, and my list of publications

Education and Positions:

2012 - present	Maitre d'enseignement et de recherche, ISDC & Geneva Observatory, University of Geneva
2012 - present	Scientist, ASTRO-H European Science Support Center, University of Geneva
2006 - 2011	Swiss NSF Professor, ISDC & Geneva Observatory, University of Geneva
2005 - 2006	Associate Research Scientist, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University
2003 - 2005	Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University
2002 - 2003	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University
2002	Ph.D. Astrophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETHZ) "Extreme Ultraviolet and X-Ray Studies of Flare Heating and Elemental Composition of Stellar Coronae"
1998-2002	Research assistant at the Laboratory for Astrophysics, Paul Scherrer Institut and PhD student at ETHZ
1998	M.Sc. Physics, University of Lausanne (Switzerland) "X-Ray Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei"

Teaching Experience:

2010-	Course "Interstellar matter and star formation" (University of Geneva)
2009-2010	Course "Observational techniques and methods in modern astronomy" (University of Geneva)
2007-	Supervision of a graduate student (University of Geneva)
	PhD project (Carla Baldovin Saavedra)
2006-	Supervision of Physics III and IV astronomy labs (University of Geneva)
2003-2006	Supervision of 3 undergraduate students (Columbia University)
	Research Projects of Physics Undergraduates Students (Jin Suh, Julius Donisan, and Jennifer Lynne Blum)
2001	Co-supervision of 3 undergraduate students (Swiss Fed. Inst. Tech. Zürich)
	Research Projects (Vordiplom) of Physics Undergraduates Students (Anton Sres, Matthias Horvath, Cristina Escoda)
2000-2002	Teaching Assistant in General Physics (Swiss Fed. Inst. Tech. Zürich)
	Physics Exercises Instructor
1998-2002	Teaching Assistant in Astronomy & Astrophysics (Swiss Fed. Inst. Tech. Zürich)
	Astronomy Lab Instructor
1998	Teaching and Research Assistant in Astronomy & Astrophysics (University of Lausanne)
	Astronomy Exercises Instructor for Physics Undergraduates. Research Project in Astronomy
1995-1998	Teaching Assistant in General Physics (University of Lausanne)
	Physics Lab Instructor for Medicine and Biology Students

Fellowships and Grant Awards:

2006-2010	Swiss NSF Professorship (1,200,000 CHF = $1,000,000)
Chandra AO7	Total of $88,259 awarded in NASA grants
Spitzer AO2	Total of $113,000 awarded in NASA grants
XMM AO4	Total of $81,300 awarded in NASA grants
Chandra AO6	Total of $94,795 awarded in NASA grants
Spitzer AO1	Total of $11,800 awarded in NASA grant
Integral AO2	Total of $15,000 awarded in NASA grant
Chandra AO5	Total of $70,320 awarded in NASA grants
XMM AO3	Total of $31,000 awarded in NASA grants
Chandra AO4	Total of $101,538 awarded in NASA grants
XMM AO2	Total of $59,640 awarded in NASA grants
2002-2003	Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for Young Postdoctoral Researchers
1998-2002	Several "Young Researcher" Grants in Switzerland

Selected Publications: (FULL LIST: CLICK HERE)

Audard, M., Stringfellow, G.S., Güdel, M., Skinner, S.L., Walter, F.M., Guinan, E.F., Hamilton, R.T., Briggs, K.R., & Baldovin-Saavedra, C. 2010, A&A, 511, 63: PDF
"A multi-wavelength study of the young star V1118 Orionis in outburst."

Audard, M., Osten, R.A., Brown, A., Briggs, K.R., Güdel, M., Hodges-Kluck, E., & Gizis, J.E. 2007, A&A, 471, L63: PDF
"A Chandra X-ray Detection of the L Dwarf Binary Kelu-1: Simultaneous Chandra and Very Large Array Observations."

Audard, M., Briggs, K.R., Grosso, N., Güdel, M., Scelsi, L., Bouvier, J., & Telleschi, A. 2007, A&A, 468, 379 (XEST issue): PDF
"The XMM-Newton Optical Monitor Survey of the Taurus Molecular Cloud."

Audard, M., Güdel, M., Skinner, S.L., Briggs, K.R., Walter, F.M., Stringfellow, G., Hamilton, R.T., & Guinan, E.F. 2005, ApJ, 635, L81: PDF
"X-Ray Spectral Variability During an Outburst in V1118 Ori."

Audard, M., Brown, A., Briggs, K.R., Güdel, M., Telleschi, A., & Gizis, J.E. 2005, ApJ Letters, 625, L63: PDF
"A Deep Look at the T-Type Brown Dwarf Binary ε Indi Bab with Chandra and ATCA."

Audard, M., Telleschi, A., Güdel, M., Skinner, S.L., Pallavicini, R., & Mitra-Kraev, U. 2004, ApJ, 617, 531: PDF
"Some Like it Hot: The X-Ray Emission of the Giant Star YY Mensae."

Audard, M. 2004, in "Proc. 13th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun", Hamburg (Germany), 5-9 July 2004, F.Favata et al., eds. (ESA-SP), in press: PDF
"X-Rays of Stellar Coronae with Chandra and XMM-Newton: Flares and Elemental Composition in Stellar Atmospheres (Invited review)."

Audard, M., Güdel, M., & Skinner, S.L. 2003, ApJ, 589, 983 : PDF
"Separating the X-Ray Emissions of UV Ceti A and B with Chandra."

Audard, M. 2003, Adv. Space Res., 32, 927 : PDF
"Investigations of Stellar Coronae with XMM-Newton (Invited Review)."

Audard, M., Güdel, M., Sres, A., Raassen, A.J.J., & Mewe, R. 2003, A&A, 398, 1137 : PDF
"A Study of Coronal Abundances in RS CVn Binaries."

Audard, M. 2002, Doctoral thesis, (Göttingen:Cuvillier), ISBN 3-89873-396-3, 192p : Buy it!
"Extreme Ultraviolet and X-Ray Studies of Flare Heating and Elemental Composition of Stellar Coronae."

Audard, M., Güdel, M., Mewe, R. 2001, A&A, 365, L318 : PDF
"The XMM-Newton View of Stellar Coronae: Flare Heating in the Coronae of HR 1099."

Audard, M., Behar, E., Güdel, M., Raassen, A.J.J., Porquet, D., Mewe, R., Foley, C.R., Bromage, G.E. 2001, A&A, 365, L329 : PDF
"The XMM-Newton View of Stellar Coronae: High-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of Capella."