Research & Academics

All about my research/academics activities at a glance...

• Publications
• Conferences
• Committees
• Supervisions

In a few words...

Since 08/2019

Virgo Collaboration GWHEN Correlations Newtonian Calibration of the Virgo GW interferometer

Since 2001

ANTARES Collaboration Since 2016 : Member of the Publication Committee 2012-2016 : Chairman of the Conference Committee GWHEN analyses

Since 2001

KM3NeT Collaboration Since 2016 : Conference & Outreach Committee Preparation of GWHEN Correlations

Research Activities

• Since 01/2021 : Member of the GRANDMA telescope Network - Core-team member
• Responsible for the ElectroMagnetic (EM) Followup of High Energy Neutrinos (detected by IceCube or KM3NeT)
  
• Since 08/2019 : Virgo experiment in parallel to ANTARES/KM3NeT
  
• Newtonian Calibration of the Virgo interferometer
  
• GW+HEN coincidences and their implications - understanding the origin of cosmic rays, measurement of cosmological parameters, quantum gravity...
  
• Since 2008 : ANTARES/KM3NeT - GW+HEN coincidences
  
• Seminal paper on GWHEN coincidences
  
• "GRB in the Multimessenger era" talk (2014) on analysis and astrophysical interpretations
  
• 2015 : Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) "Neutrino Telescopes, from ANTARES to KM3NeT/ORCA, Pluridisciplinary & Multimessenger aspects"
• 2006 - 2008 : feasibility of GW+HEN coincidences
  
• 2004 - 2008 : charge calibration studies (in particular non-linearities) in ANTARES
  
• 2001 - 2006 : study of stimulated bioluminescence in the ANTARES detector
• 1998-2001 : PhD Thesis in Virgo experiment - "Study of algorithms for the detection of Gravitational Wave Bursts - Control of the Virgo Mode-Cleaner cavity"
  

PublicationsTop

• Bibliographic Data on InspireHEP
• List of All Publications
• Papers from the ANTARES Collaboration
• Papers from the KM3NeT Collaboration
• Papers from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration
  
• Papers from the Virgo Collaboration related to my PhD Work (1998-2001)

List of recent Publications with direct contributions and/or related to GWHEN or the EM followup of HEN

2024	Search for neutrino counterparts of gravitational waves from the LIGO/Virgo third observing run with KM3NeT JCAP 04 (2024) 026
2023	Estimating source distances for high-energy neutrinos: A method for improving electromagnetic follow-up searches, T. Pradier, A&A 674 (2023) L11 Search for neutrino counterparts to the gravitational wave sources from LIGO/Virgo O3 run with the ANTARES detector, JCAP 04 (2023) 004 GRANDMA and HXMT Observations of GRB 221009A: The Standard Luminosity Afterglow of a Hyprluminous Gamma-Ray Burst, D.A. Kann et al., ApJ Lett. 948 (2023) 2, 12
2022	GRANDMA observations of ZTF/FINK transients during summer 2021, MNRAS 515 (2022) 4, 6007-6022
2021	Search for "subthreshold" sources of Gravitational Waves and High Energy Neutrinos using Advanced LIGO/Virgo, IceCube and ANTARES data, T. Pradier et al. on behalf of the ANTARES Collaboration, PoS ICRC2019 (2021) 984 Newtonian calibrator tests during the Virgo O3 data taking - D. Estevez, B. Mours, T. Pradier, Class. Quant. Grav. 38 (2021) 7, 075012
2020	Search for neutrino counterparts of catalogued gravitational-wave events detected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo during O2 with ANTARES - Eur. Phys. J. C 80, 487 (2020)
2019	Search for Multi-messenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos with Advanced LIGO during its first Observing Run, ANTARES and IceCube -  Astrophys.J. 870 (2019) no.2, 134
2017	All-sky search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW170104 with the Antares neutrino telescope - Eur. Phys. J. C 77, 911 (2017) Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory -  ApJL 850 L35 (2017) Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger - ApJL 848 L12 (2017) Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Gravitational Wave Event GW151226 and Candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube - Phys. Rev. D 96 (2017) 022005
2016	High-energy Neutrino follow-up search of Gravitational Wave Event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube - Phys. Rev. D 93, 122010 (2016)
2015	Neutrino Telescopes, from ANTARES to KM3NeT/ORCA, Pluridisciplinary & Multimessenger aspects (in French), Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Université de Strasbourg, December 2015 KM3NeT/ORCA : Measuring the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy in the Mediterranean Sea - PoS(EPS-HEP2015)089
2013	Mass hierarchy determination with atmospheric neutrinos in large volume ice/water Cherenkov detectors - JHEP 2013, 4 (2013) Multimessenger astronomy with gravitational waves and high energy neutrinos - Review of Modern Physics 85 (2013) 1401-1420 A first search for coincident gravitational waves and high energy neutrinos using LIGO/Virgo and ANTARES data in 2007  - JCAP 06 (2013) 008
2012	Multimessenger Science Reach and Analysis Method for Common Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos - Phys. Rev. D85 103004 (2012)
2011	Bounding the Time Delay between High-Energy Neutrinos and Gravitational-wave Transients from Gamma-Ray Bursts - Astropart. Phys. 35:1-7 (2011)
2010	The ANTARES Neutrino Telescope and Multi-Messenger Astronomy - Classical and Quantum Gravity 27 (2010) 194004
2009	Joint searches between gravitational-wave interferometers and high-energy neutrino telescopes : science reach and analysis strategies - Int. Journ. of Modern Physics D18 (2009) 1655-1659
2008	Coincidences between Gravitational Wave Interferometers and High Energy Neutrino Telescopes - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 602, Issue 1 (2009) 268-274

ConferencesTop

2023	Workshop "Prediction and followup of multimessenger signals" S18 of the "Journées SF2A 2023" (Strasbourg, France), Constraints on the localization volume of High Energy Neutrinos for galaxy-targeted electromagnetic followups (poster)
2022	Workshop Multimessenger astronomy with GWs and Neutrinos (Nice, France), Neutrino Programs at GRANDMA
2019	Town Hall KM3NeT Meeting (Marseille, France) - GWHEN with ANTARES/KM3NeT and Advanced LIGO/Virgo 37th  ICRC 2019, (Madison, USA) - Searches for subtreshold GW+HEN events
2018	15th Marcell Grossmann Meeting (Roma, Italy) MG15 - HEN followup of the first Neutron Star-Neutron Star binary GW170817
2017	Physics in Collision (Prague, Czech Republic) - Multi-Messenger Astronomy with ANTARES and IceCube 35th ICRC 2017 (Busan, South Korea), Searching for HEN detected by ANTARES in coincidence with GW signals observed during LIGO Observation Run O1
2016	TeV Particle Astrophysics Conference, (CERN, Switzerland) - Probing the HEN universe with ANTARES
2015	European Physical Society- High Energy Physics (Vienna, Austria) - KM3NeT/ORCA : Measuring the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy  in the Mediterranean Sea
2014	Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Multi-Messenger Era (Paris, France) - Searches for coincident HEN and GW bursts using the ANTARES and Virgo/LIGO detectors
2013	33rd ICRC 2013 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - GW+HEN joint searches
2012	Mediterranean & Antarctic Neutrino Telescopes Symposium (Bologna, Italy) - GW & HEN in IceCube, ANTARES and Virgo/LIGO
2011	From Neutrino to Multi-Messenger Astronomy (Marseilles, France) - GW and HEN correlations
2010	14th Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop (Roma, Italy) - ANTARES & Multi-Messenger Astronomy Fundamental Physics Laws : Gravity, Lorentz Invariance & Quantum Gravity (Paris, France) - GWHEN coincidences and Quantum Gravity
2009	Workshop GWHEN 2009 (Paris, France)
2008	XXth Rencontres de Blois (Blois, France) - ANTARES/Virgo coincidences : a feasibility study VLVNT08 (Toulon, France) - Coincidences between GW interferometers and HEN telescopes Moriond Electroweak Conference (La Thuile, Italy) - The ANTARES Neutrino Telescope : first results
2007	Fundamental Symmetries, from nuclei and neutrino to the Universe (Trento, Italy) - The ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
2004	3rd International Conference on Frontier Science - ¨Physics & Astrophysics in Space (Frascati, Italy) - ANTARES Status & Milestones : News from Deap-Sea

Committees (Institutional & Administrative) Top

Since 2016 Scientific Council of PNHE National Program High Energies Supports & federates all research High Energy Astrophysics activities

Since 2016 Council of Physics & Engineering Faculty Member of Research Council of University of Strasbourg

Since 2020 Member of National Council of Universities (CNU, Section 29)

2008-2012 Section 01 of National Committee for Scientific Research

Theses Jury, Selection Committees...

Since 2016	GNN PhD Dissertation Prize Jury
2023	Selection Committee for Assistant Professor position at Univ. Paris, Gravitational wave astronomy with LISA Expertise : evaluation for CNRS AAP Amorce, UHE Neutrinos
2022	Thesis referee & jury member, S. Gallego (Normandie Univ & LPC Caen), SoLid
2021	Expertise : evaluation for Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Quantum Gravity & Multimessenger astronomy
2020	Selection Committee for Assistant Professor position at University of Paris, Gamma-Ray astronomy Selection Committee for Assistant Professor position at University Grenoble Alpes (cancelled)
2018	Thesis Referee, R. Mele (INFN) - KM3NeT
2011	Selection Committee for Assistant Professor position on Gravitational Waves at University Paris-Diderot, APC (Paris)
2010	Selection Committee for a Chair position on Gamma-Ray Astronomy at Université Aix-Marseille II, CPPM (Marseille) Thesis Jury Member G. Decerprit (APC) - Auger experiment
2009	Selection Committee for a Chair position on Neutrino Physics at Université de Savoie, LAPP (Annecy) Thesis Jury Member I. Al Samarai (CPPM) - ANTARES

Supervisions Top

Post-docs 2018-2020 : F. Huang, KM3NeT (INFRADEV) - online HEN selection 2017-2019 : R. Gracia-Ruiz, KM3NeT (ANR) - Telescope Calibration 2006-2008 : K. Lyons, ANTARES - HEN reconstruction	PhDs 2016-2019 : M. Organokov, ANTARES 2009-2012 (20-30%) : B. Bouhou, ANTARES 2006-2010 : G. Guillard, ANTARES 2001-2004 (in part) : S. Ferry, ANTARES
Postgraduate Students 2021 : F. Richard, M2 PSA 2020 : V. Juste, M2 PSA ; F. Richard, M1 Physics 2014 : M. Durocher, M2 PSA 2013 : F. Lehas, M2 PSA 2012 : R. Szenes, M2 PSA 2011 : Y. Stoll, M1	Undergrads 2019 : F. Richard, L3 Physics 2009 : A. Beuriot & C. Schweyer, L3 Physics 2008 : A. Mathieu, L2 Physics (JANUS) 2007 : N. Kempf, L2 Physics (JANUS)

Contact : thierry.pradier@iphc.cnrs.fr