Virginie Faramaz

Virginie Faramaz

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Born and raised in Savoy in the French Alps, where we are crazy over fondue, raclette, tartiflette, and basically any dish that contains cheese, ham and potatoes, I defended my thesis at IPAG in Grenoble in 2014 on Exoplanetary Systems Dynamics. My PhD centred on theoretical aspects of planet-debris disks interactions and I got the chance to learn more about observational aspects during my next stop, at PUC in Santiago de Chile, as a FONDECYT postdoctoral fellow. I landed in the U.S.A in 2017, became an Exoplanet Science Initiative Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and worked as well with IPAC and NExScI.