Julia Roquette //data scientist: stars & wine

CV

Employment history

  • Nov 2025 – now
    Maître Assistant (senior postdoc)
    Department of Basic Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
    Wine research in the Pouget Lab: reading the chemical fingerprints of wines with data science.
  • Dec 2021 – Oct 2025
    Maître Assistant (senior postdoc)
    Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva, Switzerland
    • EU H2020/SPACE project NEMESIS (2021–2025). Led The Orion Star Formation Complex as a training set for machine learning; major contributor to Identification of Young Stellar Objects with deep learning methods.
    • ESA Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium, CU7 Specific Object Studies: Young Stellar Objects (since 2023).
  • Jun 2018 – Dec 2021
    Research Fellow (postdoc)
    University of Exeter, United Kingdom
    ERC project AWESoMeStars, group of Prof. Sean Matt. Led Environmentally influenced stellar spin evolution; major contributor to Stellar metallicity and the spins of stars.
  • Nov 2017 – May 2018
    Lecturer in Physics and Astrophysics
    Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil

Education

  • 2013 – 2017
    PhD in Physics
    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
    Thesis: Variability and Rotation of Young Low Mass Stars: The Case of Cygnus OB2 Association
    Supervisor: Prof. Silvia Alencar
    Funding: CNPq, Brazil
    • Visiting researcher at the Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, France (Apr 2015 – Apr 2016), with Dr. Jérôme Bouvier. Funding: CNPq, Brazil (mobility grant).
  • 2011 – 2013
    MSc in Physics
    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
    Thesis: JHK survey of photometric variability in the centre of Cygnus OB2 (in Portuguese)
    Supervisor: Prof. Luiz Vaz
    Funding: CNPq, Brazil
  • 2007 – 2011
    BSc in Physics
    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
    Undergraduate research on the photometric variability of young stars (Prof. Luiz Vaz, 2008–2011) and the photoluminescence of conjugated polymers (Prof. Luiz A. Cury, 2007–2008)
    Funding: CNPq, Brazil