SLUSE Dominique

Professeur associé

Logisticien de recherche principal

SLUSE Dominique

Faculté des Sciences
Département d'astrophysique, géophysique et océanographie (AGO)
Multi-wavelength Extragalactic and Galactic Astrophysics (MEGA)
Faculté des Sciences
Département d'astrophysique, géophysique et océanographie (AGO)
Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR)

ULiège address
Bât. B5C Multi-wavelength Extragalactic & Galactic Astroph. (MEGA)
Quartier Agora
Allée du 6 août 19c
4000 Liège
Belgique
ULiège phone number
+32 4 3669797
ULiège Fax
+32 4 3669746
Email
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Conseil sectoriel à la recherche et à la valorisation
Sciences et Techniques
Personal website (s)
Personal webpage of Dominique Sluse

Biography

Dominique Sluse, who has been passionate about astronomy since childhood, joined the University of Liège to study physics and astrophysics. His doctoral thesis focused on the observational study of gravitational mirages, carried out jointly by the University of Liège and the European Southern Observatory in Chile. In 2005, he joined the astrophysics laboratory of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne for a first post-doctorate aimed at using gravitational mirages to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. In 2008, as a Humboldt fellow, he joined the University of Heidelberg, where he expanded his research to develop the use of gravitational microlenses to reveal the structure of the central regions of galaxies.
In 2011, he moved to the University of Bonn, continuing his research in various fields of extragalactic astrophysics and observational cosmology. Returning to ULiège in 2014 thanks to a BELSPO "return scholarship", he was appointed Senior Research Logistician in 2018. He is consolidating the development of the cosmographic use of gravitational lenses with financial support from the European Research Council through the COSMICLENS project.
The research of Dominique Sluse and his team covers a wide thematic spectrum, including the history of the Universe studied with the aid of gravitational lenses, dark matter on the galactic scale, the structure of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and the accretion of matter and gas by the central black holes they host. Finally, he is also interested in exotic AGNs with unusual properties, such as binary AGNs.

Research field

  • Astrophysique

Scientific distinctions

  • Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship (2008)
  • Research grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinshaft (DFG - DE) (2011)
  • Back to Belgium Grant from BELSPO (2014)

ULiège Course

Statistical methods and data analysis, 20h Th, 30h Pr, CHRISTIAENS Valentin, FAYS Maxime, MUNHOVEN Guy, SLUSE Dominique

Extragalactic astrophysics, 20h Th, 10h Pr, MAHLER Guillaume, SLUSE Dominique

Advanced data analysis in python and introduction to machine learning, 15h Th, 25h Pr, CHRISTIAENS Valentin, FAYS Maxime, MUNHOVEN Guy, SLUSE Dominique