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Hi everyone!

I am Adélie, I come from France but have been living in the UK for 3 years now, I really like your home! I live and work in London, I cycle every morning to work through Hyde park, that’s my favourite part of the day… 🚲 I am a huge Harry Potter fan (that’s maybe why I came to the UK in the first place!) and I think I could quote any scene of any of the 8 films (or any chapter of any of the books 🤓). I live in a house with two friends and we love spending time and cooking together – everybody cooks dishes from his home (one is Canadian, the other Chinese), it is a very happy place 🎉

In my work, I look for the first stars, as we have no idea when they were born. To do this, I use very big telescopes located everywhere in the world (the next one I’ll go and use is in Australia!) to look as far as I can in the sky and find them. Because we do not always know where to look, I also develop theories of what could have happened in the history of the Universe that could help us see those first stars…

On a typical day I spend a lot of time having breakfast (it is the best part of the day!), then I cycle to work (or maybe that is) and sit at my computer to do my theory work. Then I run ti buy lunch and eat it during what we call a “journal club”: a scientist from my group presents to the other the latest discoveries of his field, it is usually very exciting. After this, I teach math to undergraduate student for two hours, and then get back to my computer to see if I have exciting results… and cycle home in the dark… 🥶