Research interests
- Galaxy formation
- Reionization
- Supermassive black-holes
- High redshift universe
- Physical modelling of star formation and feedback
- Circum-galactic medium
- Numerical simulations
Research positions
- 2021 – ????
- Postdoctoral researcher at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in Groningen, in the group of Pratika Dayal.
- 2019 – 2021
- STRUCTURES fellow in Heidelberg, jointly at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie and the Zentrum für Astronomie with Annalisa Pillepich, Ralf Klessen and Simon Glover.
- 2016 – 2019
- Postdoctoral researcher at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, working in the BLACK ERC project led by Marta Volonteri.
- 2012 – 2016
- PhD student at the Observatoire de Lyon, with Jérémy Blaizot. Download my thesis here.
Education
- 2012 – 2016
- PhD in Physics at the Université de Lyon.
- 2010 – 2012
- Master’s Degree in Physics at the ENS Lyon, with honours
- 2009 – 2010
- Licence (BSc.) in Physics at the ENS Lyon, with honours
Undergrad research
- April – July 2012
- Master 2 thesis at the Observatoire de Lyon, focused on polarized radiative transfer of Lyman-alpha line in Lyman-alpha “blobs”, under the supervision of Jérémy Blaizot and Anne Verhamme;
- May – July 2011
- Master 1 thesis at Oxford University, I worked under the supervision of Pedro Ferreira on forecasting cosmological parameters from weak lensing;
- June – July 2010
- Licence 3 thesis at the Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Université Paris Nord (Paris XIII), first actual “lab” experience, I worked with Laurent Vernac and Étienne Maréchal on frequency locking of a laser for cold atoms physics.
Teaching
- Practical classes for the Agrégation de Physique at the ENS Lyon (general physics labs)
- Physical optics for second-year university students, labs and problem classes, at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Outreach
I have been involved in various outreach events, organised either by the Observatoire de Lyon or by the IAP.
- “Fête de la Science” (national science festival)
- European Heritage Days at the Observatoire de Lyon
- “Oufs d’astro” (astronomy festival hosted by the Vaulx-en-Velin planetarium)
I also act as a scientific reviewer for the Papier Mâché project, which explains academic articles for the general public.
Publications
Articles
- The OBELISK simulation: Galaxies contribute more than AGN to H I reionization of protoclusters
- Maxime Trebitsch, Yohan Dubois, Marta Volonteri, Hugo Pfister, Corentin Cadiou, Harley Katz, Joakim Rosdahl, Taysun Kimm, Christophe Pichon, Ricarda Beckmann, Julien Devriendt and Adrianne Slyz
- Tidal disruption events in the first billion years of a galaxy
- Hugo Pfister, Jane Lixin Dai, Marta Volonteri, Katie Auchettl, Maxime Trebitsch, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
- Formation of compact galaxies in the Extreme-Horizon simulation
- Solène Chabanier, Frédéric Bournaud, Yohan Dubois, Sandrine Codis, Damien Chapon, David Elbaz, Christophe Pichon, Olivier Bressand, Julien Devriendt, Raphaël Gavazzi, Katarina Kraljic, Taysun Kimm, Clothilde Laigle, Jean-Baptiste Lekien, Garreth Martin, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Sébastien Peirani, Pierre-Franck Piserchia, Adrianne Slyz, Maxime Trebitsch, Christophe Yèche
- Black hole mergers from dwarf to massive galaxies with the NewHorizon and Horizon-AGN simulations
- Marta Volonteri, Hugo Pfister, Ricarda Beckmann, Yohan Dubois, Monica Colpi, Christopher Conselice, Massimo Dotti, Garreth Martin, Ryan Jackson, Katarina Kraljic, Christophe Pichon, Maxime Trebitsch, Sukyoung Yi, Julien Devriendt, Sébastien Peirani
- Reionization with galaxies and active galactic nuclei
- Pratika Dayal, Marta Volonteri, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, Raffaella Schneider, Maxime Trebitsch, Nick Gnedin, Hakim Atek, Michaela Hirschmann, Amy Reines
- Modelling a bright z = 6 galaxy at the faint end of the AGN luminosity function
- Maxime Trebitsch, Marta Volonteri, Yohan Dubois
- RASCAS: RAdiation SCattering in Astrophysical Simulations
- Léo Michel-Dansac, Jérémy Blaizot, Thibaut Garel, Anne Verhamme, Taysun Kimm, Maxime Trebitsch
- Black hole obscuration and duty-cycles mediated by AGN feedback in high-redshift galaxies
- Maxime Trebitsch, Marta Volonteri, Yohan Dubois
- Super-Eddington accretion and feedback from the first massive seed black holes
- John Regan, Turlough Downes, Marta Volonteri, Ricarda Beckmann, Alessandro Lupi, Maxime Trebitsch, Yohan Dubois
- Escape of ionizing radiation from high-redshift dwarf galaxies: role of AGN feedback
- Maxime Trebitsch, Marta Volonteri, Yohan Dubois, Piero Madau
- High-redshift Galaxies and Black Holes Detectable with the JWST: A Population Synthesis Model from Infrared to X-Rays
- Marta Volonteri, Amy Reines, Hakim Atek, Daniel P. Stark and Maxime Trebitsch
- Fluctuating feedback-regulated escape fraction of ionizing radiation in low-mass, high-redshift galaxies
- Maxime Trebitsch, Jérémy Blaizot, Joakim Rosdahl, Julien Devriendt and Adrianne Slyz
- Lyman-α blobs: polarization arising from cold accretion
- Maxime Trebitsch, Anne Verhamme, Jérémy Blaizot and Joakim Rosdahl
- Ultralight axions: Degeneracies with massive neutrinos and forecasts for future cosmological observations
- David J. E. Marsh, Edward Macaulay, Maxime Trebitsch and Pedro G. Ferreira
Conference proceedings
- Effect Of Feedback On The Escape Of Ionizing Radiation From High-Z Galaxies
- Maxime Trebitsch, Jérémy Blaizot, Joakim Rosdahl, Julien Devriendt and Adrianne Slyz
- Feedback regulated escape of ionising radiation from high redshift galaxies
- Maxime Trebitsch and Jérémy Blaizot
- Modeling small galaxies during the Epoch of Reionisation
- Maxime Trebitsch, Jérémy Blaizot and Joakim Rosdahl
- Lyman-α blobs: polarization arising from cold accretion
- Maxime Trebitsch, Anne Verhamme, Jérémy Blaizot and Joakim Rosdahl
Conferences
Talks
- NOVA NW1 science meeting, 2021, online
- PRACEdays 2021, EuroHPC week, 2021, online
- YAGN Meeting, 2020, online
- Symposium S13, European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, 2020, online
- Black Holes and galaxies at the Edge of the Universe, 2020, Ringberg
- Symposium S3, European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, 2019, Lyon
- Workshop on Numerical modeling of Galaxy Formation and Evolution, 2019, Yonsei
- Journées du PNCG (French cosmology & galaxy community), 2018, Paris
- YAGN Meeting, 2018, Budapest
- RAMSES User Meeting, 2018, Lyon
- Escape of Lyman radiation from galactic labyrinths, 2018, Crete
- Massive black holes in evolving galaxies: from quasars to quiescence, 34th IAP Conference, 2018, Paris
- Rise & Shine: galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization, 2018, Strasbourg
- Symposium S3, European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, 2018, Liverpool
- YAGN Meeting, 2017, Teruel
- RAMSES User Meeting, 2017, Nice
- RAMSES User Meeting, 2016, Paris
- Journées SF2A (French Astronomy Meeting), 2016, Lyon.
- RAMSES User Meeting, 2015, Oxford.
- Journées SF2A (French Astronomy Meeting), 2015, Toulouse.
Seminars
- Kapteyn Colloquium, 2021, Groningen
- Astrolunch Seminar, 2020, Jerusalem (online)
- Königstuhl Colloquium, 2020, Heidelberg (online)
- Journal-club GECO/LAM, 2020, Marseille (online)
- Journal-club Galaxies/IAP, 2020, Paris (online)
- XGAL Journal-club, 2020, Lancaster (online)
- MPIA Galaxy Coffee, 2020, Heidelberg
- Séminaire de l’Observatoire de Strasbourg, 2019, Strasbourg
- ICAP Seminar, 2019, Paris
- MPIA Galaxy Coffee, 2018, Heidelberg
- ITA Star-Formation Group Journal Club, 2018, Heidelberg
- ICAP Seminar, 2016, Paris
- Galaxy Evolution Seminar, 2016, Oxford.
Posters and recorded talks
- The Obelisk simulation: galaxies contribute more than AGN to HI reionization in protoclusters; SAZERAC Meeting, 2020, Online
- The contribution of AGN to the high redshift ionizing UV background; IAU Symposium 352, 2019, Viana do Castelo
- Effect of feedback on the escape of ionizing radiation from high-z galaxies; EWASS, 2017, Prague.
- Effect of feedback on the escape of ionizing radiation from high-z galaxies; Galaxy Evolution Across Time, 2017, Paris.
- Galaxies reionising the universe: light from the first objects; Exploring the Universe with JWST, 2015, ESTEC.
- Galaxies reionising the universe: light from the first objects; First stars, first galaxies, first black holes, 2015, Gröningen.
- Lyman-α blobs: polarization arising from cold accretion; Journées SF2A (French Astronomy Meeting), 2014, Paris.