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General Information

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First name: Igor

Last name: Chilingarian

Date of birth: 16/May/1980

Place of birth: Moscow, USSR

Nationality: Russian / French

Family status: Single, never married

Degrees:

doctor of phys.-math. sc.; 01.03.02-Astrophysics, Stellar Astronomy (by the Moscow State University, 2010)
PhD in astronomy (by the Universite Claude Bernard Lyon-1), 2006)
candidate of phys.-math. sc.; 01.03.02-Astrophysics, Radioastronomy (by the Moscow State University, 2006)
MSc in astronomy (by the Moscow State University, 2003)

Present position: astronomer at the Telescope Data Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Affiliations:

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Leading researcher at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute

Languages: Russian (native), English (fluent, current working language), French (good), Spanish (intermediate)

Research Interests

Evolution of Galaxies, Stellar Populations, 3D Spectroscopy, Virtual Observatory, Astronomical Databases, Software Engineering

Projects

RCSED -- Reference Catalog of Spectral Energy Distributions of 800,000 galaxies

GalMer -- Galaxy Mergers in the Virtual Observatory

K-corrections calculator

SkyMap Online

Publications

A list of my publications is available here (NASA ADS).

Recent preprints from astro-ph: The true bottleneck of modern scientific computing (proceedings of that famous talk at ADASS-XX), Dynamical vs stellar masses of UCDs in Fornax (MNRAS in press), The GalMer Database (A&A), The second cE galaxy near NGC5846 (MNRAS letters), Analytical approximations of K-corrections (MNRAS), Discovery of cE galaxies with the Virtual Observatory (Science 2009 v.326 p.1379).

Full text of my MSc thesis (2002, in Russian, supervisor: Dr. Serguei Dodonov, SAO RAS)

Full text of my PhD thesis (2006, in English, supervisors: Dr. Olga Sil'chenko, SAI MSU, Dr. Philippe Prugniel, CRAL Observatoire de Lyon)

Full text of my DSc thesis (2010, in Russian, consultant: Dr. Olga Sil'chenko, SAI MSU)

Selected posters: ADASS-XIII, ADASS-XIV.

Presentations: ADASS-XV (3D data in VO)

Photos

Here and here (and also here) you can find a small collection of my photos, taken in different places all over the world since 1996. They aren't structured at all, and no thumbnails is available (yet).