Living in a world with such extraordinary diversity, it is easy to forget that we still only understand 5% of our universe. With 95% still left to explore, science shares the same role as art in our culture and vision for our world. Hervé Dole is an astrophysicist and professor at Université Paris-Saclay. He is involved in the European space mission Euclid to be launched in 2022. Euclid’s main scientific goals are focused on a better understanding of dark matter and dark energy’s properties in the Universe, as well as galaxy cluster formation deep in the Universe. He also worked in the USA for NASA’s infrared space observatory. He is also the Vice-Président of Université Paris-Sud and is in charge of science outreach, science & society, arts and culture (2016-2020).

In addition to his teaching and research activities, Hervé enjoys raising awareness about astrophysics amongst the masses through different media.

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