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baptiste auguié

French, NZ permanent resident

Born in 1982

July 2, 2023

I have followed an original path, with work experiences in France, Canada, UK, Spain, NZ, Argentina.
Beside Physics, I am passionate about education and data visualisation.

Work experience

2017
senior lecturer te herenga waka – victoria university
Group leader; research, teaching, mentoring, and administrative responsibilities
Associate Investigator with the MacDiarmid Institute and the Dodd-Walls Centre
Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (2017–2022, $800,000)
Marsden grant (P.I. 2023–2026, $940,000), Endeavour Smart Ideas (A.I. 2017–2020, $1,000,000)
2016 (4 mo.)
researcher engender technologies, auckland
Optical design & experiments, electromagnetic modelling, reporting
Contributed to the Photon Factory’s research and teaching environment
2015–2016
research and teaching fellow victoria university of wellington
Lectured for the 3rd year physics curriculum (30 students, 1.5 trimesters)
Contributed to a study of absorption in turbid media published in Nature Photonics
Co-wrote open-source programs and user guides for electromagnetic simulations
2013–2015
research fellow centro atómico Bariloche, Argentina
Proposed and demonstrated a novel optical sensor, initiating a new collaboration
2011–2013
post-doctoral fellow Victoria University of Wellington
Developed a new technique enabling Raman spectroscopy of highly fluorescent dyes
Combined SPR and SERS spectroscopy with an original microscopy setup
2010–2011
post-doctoral fellow University of Vigo, Spain
Conducted pioneering research in chiral plasmonics
2009, 2010
invited visiting research fellow CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Elucidated incompatible results on supported arrays of metal nanoparticles
2005–2009
PhD in Physics Exeter University, UK
Thesis: Optical properties of gold nanostructures (Advisor: Prof William L. Barnes)
First publication in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters

Core competencies

Physics
Expert in nano-technology, electromagnetism and spectroscopy
> 50 peer-reviewed publications, > 7000 citations H-index: 25 (google scholar)
Research design as well as fabrication, characterisation, analysis, modelling
Theory: light scattering, electromagnetism, nano-technology
Programming
Broad experience with data analysis, numerical modelling & simulations
Data analysis and simulations, mostly using R, Julia, Matlab; some C++, Fortran
Active github profile since 2008. Over 70 git repositories, including > 15 R packages
R user since 2007; contributions acknowledged in numerous books and over 30 publications (notably for: grid, knitr, ggplot2, Rcpp)
Expert advice and help via mailing lists, > 1000 answers read by 5M users, 72k reputation on Stack Overflow: stackoverflow.com/users/471093/baptiste

Notable skills

Writing
accomplished science communicator
Competitive grant applications, cover letters, high-impact scientific articles
Dynamic report generation, using modern literate programming tools (quarto, pandoc, LaTeX, R) for a more reproducible and efficient data analysis workflow
Presentation
Expert in scientific graphics, great attention to detail
My co-authors have trusted me with the figures for over 20 articles
Invited speaker at two Emerging Scientist MacDiarmid Institute workshops on graphics
R software contributions used worldwide (e.g. gridExtra since 2010, 400k downloads/mo.)
Long-time user of design tools such as Adobe Illustrator, Indesign, Lightroom
For specific visuals I also use 3D ray-tracing, and custom-made R graphics
Speaking
Experienced speaker in diverse settings
Fluent in French (native speaker) and English (4 years in England, 9 in New Zealand), and proficient in Spanish (1 year in Spain, 2 in Argentina)
Over 25 talks at international conferences and meetings (audiences of 10–100)
Invited speaker at a 3-day workshop, and 5 other seminars (30–50 students and researchers)
Leadership
Valued and adaptable team worker
Sat on a recruitment panel; made key contributions to a revamp of the Physics curriculum
Team leader, with a network of national and international collaborators
Lecturing, supervision of student projects, interns, and visitors
Organiser and host of ~45 monthly Physics seminars for the School
Co-supervised ~12 PhD students, 5 research assistants or postdocs
Organised and chaired several conferences and hui for the MacDiarmid Institute

Education

2004–2005
Masters in Physics Montréal, Canada | Rennes, France
Year abroad at École Polytechnique, Montréal
Thesis: Ultralow chromatic dispersion measurement in optical fibres
2000–2005
Engineering degree in Physics National institute of applied sciences, Rennes, France
Core topics: physics, technology, materials science
Specialised in modern optics and nano-technology
2000
Baccalauréat scientifique France
Highest honours (mention très bien)

Personal interests

travel
I am passionately curious about the world’s diversity, and keen to connect with other cultures. I enjoy travelling, foreign literature (Murakami, Cortázar, Salter, Kundera) and cinema (Miyazaki, Iñárritu, Kusturica)
photography
My professional interest in graphics and presentation sometimes overlaps with personal hobbies, notably typography, calligraphy and photography (digital and film). I designed my personal website at photo.bapt.xyz
running
During most holidays you will find me hiking, taking photos and exploring new areas. The rest of the year I enjoy regular yoga, swimming and running — I finished Wellington’s “Round the bays” half-marathon in 1h52 (2013), and 1h40 (2018).

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