Hello!

I am a planetary astrophysicist and observational astronomer. I am currently a Trottier Fellow at the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) at the University of Montréal, in Canada. Before that, I completed my PhD in Astronomy in 2019, at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland, and spent three years as a CSH Fellow at the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at the University of Bern, in Switzerland.

I work on the detection and characterisation of giant exoplanets (planets orbiting other stars than our Sun) and brown dwarfs (astronomical objects intermediate between stars and planets). The goal of my research is to constrain the properties and demographics of these populations in order to better understand the origins and atmospheres of the worlds lying outside our own Solar system.

Clémence Fontanive

Get in touch at clemence.fontanive@umontreal.ca

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I organise monthly public astro events in bars in Montréal!
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