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General Information

Full Name Dr Romain A Meyer
Position Research and Teaching Fellow, UNIGE
Address Observatoire de Genève, Université de Genève, Chemin Pegasi 51, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland
Languages French, English, German (B2), Italian (A2)

Education

  • 2020
    PhD
    University College London, London, UK
    • The role of Galaxies and Quasars in Reionising the High-Redshift Intergalactic Medium
    • Supervised by Prof. Richard S. Ellis
  • 2017
    Master in Physics
    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne Switzerland
    • Thesis "PSF interpolation via Artificial Neural Networks" (supervisor Prof. F. Courbin and Dr. F. Kuntzer)
    • Minor in Computational Sciences
  • 2015
    Bachelor in Physics
    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne Switzerland
    • BSc project "Cross-calibration of the Herschel SPIRE instruments" (supervised by Prof. D. Clements and Dr. R. Hopwood)
    • Erasmus year at Imperial College, London, UK

Current and Previous Positions

  • 2023 -
    Research and Teaching Fellow, UNIGE
    Observatoire de Genève, Université de Genève
    • Member of the group of Prof. Pascal Oesch
    • High-redshift galaxies and reionisation with JWST/ALMA/VLT
    • {"Involved in major collaborations"=>"FRESCO, COSMOS-3D, MOONS GTO, EREBUS,"}
    • Supervision of Master Students for full thesis and semester project, guest lecturing
  • 2020-2023
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
    • Member of the group of Dr. Fabian Walter
    • Observations of z>6 quasar host galaxies with ALMA and NOEMA
    • NIRISS Reduction for EC-MIRI-GTO and configurations simulations for DSA-2000
    • Supervision of BSc students

Open Source Projects

  • 2021-now
    interferopy
    • A simple, fast Python library to analyse radio and (sub-)mm observations.

Awarded PI observing time

  • ALMA Band 1 - 34.3h (2025)
    • “Weighing the molecular gas reservoirs of UV-faint, yet FIR-luminous z>6 quasars”
  • JWST NIRSpec IFU SURVEY - 236.2h (2025)
    • {"“THRIFTY"=>"The High-RedshIft FronTier surveY” (Cycle 4,"}
  • IRAM/NOEMA Band 3 - 30h (2024)
    • “Characterising the ISM of a z=6.5 post-quasar galaxy” (W24EN)
  • ALMA Band 1 - 32h (2024)
    • “A survey of cold molecular gas in z ∼ 6.5 quasars and their companion galaxies” (2024.1.00106.S)
  • XShooter/VLT - 2.9h (2023)
    • “Characterising a z ∼ 6 gravitationally-lensed BAL quasar candidate” (113.26CY)
  • JWST NIRSpec IFU - 10.5h (2022)
    • “Characterizing the Source of Ionising Photons in the Epoch of Reionization” (#3767)
  • Gemini (DDT) Flamingos-2 - 4.2h (2022)
    • “Measuring the mass of the SMBHs powering two lensed z ∼ 6 quasars” (DT-2022B-029)
  • NOEMA Band 3 - 12h (2022)
    • “Disentangling the nature of JWST ultra-high-redshift candidates with NOEMA” (W22EG)
  • MUSE/VLT - 30h (2022)
    • “A conclusive detection of galaxy overdensities around the first luminous quasars” (110.23UT)
  • ALMA Band 6 - 14.6h (2021)
    • “The Large-Scale Environment of the First Quasars” (2021.1.01557.S)
  • ALMA Band 8/9 - 16.3h (2021)
    • -“Extreme Super-Eddington Star Formation in a Quasar Host at z ∼ 7?” (2021.1.01350.S)
  • FOSC2/NTT - 4 nights (2019)
    • “A search for the missing gravitationally-lensed z ∼ 6 quasars” (0104.A-0662(A)