Mellier leads the Euclid Consortium as ESA selects Euclid for implementation to investigate cosmic acceleration, dark energy, dark matter and large-scale structure.
Historical person
Yannick Mellier Biography
Historical biography and chronological timeline for Yannick Mellier, based on 6 World History Database records associated with France.
Chronological biography
2011
2023
Mellier leads the Euclid Consortium as the spacecraft launches on a mission designed to map cosmic structure and investigate the nature of dark energy.
Mellier oversees the Euclid science consortium as the mission's first public images demonstrate the image quality required for future dark-energy and weak-lensing measurements.
2024
Mellier leads the scientific consortium as Euclid begins its nominal six-year survey to measure billions of galaxies and trace dark energy over cosmic time.
Mellier presents Euclid's first science papers and performance results, demonstrating that the mission is ready for precision studies of the dark universe.
2025
Mellier's Euclid Consortium releases the mission's first survey data, opening a large galaxy dataset that prepares the way for future dark-energy cosmology analyses.
Titles and roles
Astronomer
Record provenance
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