General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRF-26-0223
Direction
DRF
Thesis topic details
Category
Corpuscular physics and outer space
Thesis topics
Unbiased Shear Estimation for Euclid with Automatically Differentiable and GPU Accelerated Modeling
Contract
Thèse
Job description
This PhD project focuses on achieving unbiased measurements of weak gravitational lensing — the tiny distortions in galaxy shapes caused by the matter along the line of sight. This technique is key to studying dark matter, dark energy, and gravity, and lies at the heart of the Euclid space mission launched in 2023. Traditional shape-measurement methods introduce systematic biases in shear estimation. The goal of this PhD is to develop and extend an innovative forward-modelling approach that directly infers the shear by simulating realistic galaxy images using deep-learning architectures. The student will adapt this framework to real Euclid data, accounting for the complexity of the Science Ground Segment (SGS) and implementing GPU-accelerated and high-performance computing solutions to scale to the full sky coverage. The project is timely, coinciding with Euclid’s first public data release in 2026. The expected outcome is a more accurate and robust shear estimation method, enabling the next generation of precision cosmology analyses.
University / doctoral school
Astronomie et Astrophysique d’Île de France (ED A&A)
Paris-Saclay
Thesis topic location
Site
Saclay
Requester
Position start date
01/09/2026
Person to be contacted by the applicant
Farrens Samuel
samuel.farrens@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRFU
Ormes des Merisiers
Département d’Astrophysique (DAp) Bât 709
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette
28377
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
Farrens Samuel
samuel.farrens@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRFU
Ormes des Merisiers
Département d’Astrophysique (DAp) Bât 709
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette
28377
En savoir plus
https://www.cosmostat.org/people/sfarrens
https://irfu.cea.fr/dap/
https://www.cosmostat.org/jobs/unbiased-shear-estimation-for-euclid-with-automatically-differentiable-and-gpu-accelerated-modeling