Benjamin Schneider

Benjamin Schneider

Postdoc in Astrophysics

Curriculum vitae

Education

Training course

  •The detectors and their issues organized by the LabEX FOCUS, OHP, Haute-Provence, France, 2021
  → Characterization of a CCD detector (SBIG camera);
  → Night observations on several instruments including the T120 and the COLIBRI telescopes.
  •The Artificial Intelligence for astrophysics in the age of the big data, Online, 2020
  → Lectures and practical sessions on machine learning supervised by Prof. Marc Huertas-Company.

Work experience

2021
  • Test campaign of the SVOM/MXT Spare Model, SOLEIL synchrotron, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  → Energy calibration and spectral performance from 0.3 to 1.8 keV;
  → Quantum efficiency at different positions on the detector;
  → Charge transfer efficiency of the detector.
  • Science performance tests of the SVOM/MXT Flight Model, MPE Panter facility, Munich, Germany
  → Energy calibration and spectral performance of the detector;
  → Quantum efficiency of the complete instrument (optic + detector).
  • Calibration of the low threshold (~ 4 keV) of the SVOM/ECLAIRs flight detector, CNES, Toulouse, France
  → Handling of the setup in clean room;
  → Several shifts during the campaign.

2019
  6-month internship: Preparation of the energy calibration of the SVOM/MXT flight model detector, CEA Saclay, France
  Supervisor: Dr. Aline Meuris
  → Development and optimization of a setup based on an X-ray tube to generate fluorescence lines;
  → Characterization of the MXT Performance Model;
  → Data processing including image reduction and spectral analysis of the calibration campaigns.

2018
  3-month internship: A new test bench for the CMS Pixel Luminosity Telescope, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  Supervisor: Dr. Andrés Delannoy and Dr. Andreas Kornmayer
  → Development, optimization and production of a test bench to quickly test the PLT silicon sensors;
  → Qualification of a first batch of silicon sensors.

2017
  Summer internship: The Taffy galaxies (UGC 12914/5), ObAs, Strasbourg, France
  Supervisor: Dr. Bernd Vollmer
  → Study of the molecular gas bridge between Taffy galaxies;
  → Comparison between observational data and numerical simulations to find common properties;
  → Study of the collision conditions in numerical simulations to understand the formation of the gas bridge.

Skills

Publications

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Talks

Teaching

Membership