Céline d'Orgeville

Céline d'Orgeville is the Program Director of the Australia Telescope National Facility at CSIRO, where she started in February 2025. Prior to that she was a professor at Australian National University and the director of the Advanced Instrumentation Technology Centre, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (2021–2025). She started her journey at the Australian National University as an instrument scientist in 2012, where she was leading teams designing laser and optical systems for ground based astronomical telescopes. Celine Dorgeville previously worked at the Gemini Observatory from 1999 through 2012, where she led the development of laser guide star systems for both Gemini North and Gemini South. She is a Fellow of SPIE and the Astronomical Society of Australia.

Early life and education d'Orgeville was an undergraduate and master's student at Paris-Sud University. She spent her summer holidays as an intern in optical engineering. In 1997 d'Orgeville moved to Joseph Fourier University, where she worked on non-linear optics and laser-pumped oscillators. From 1999 d'Orgeville worked for the Gemini Observatory, which operates the Gemini North and Gemini South astronomical telescopes in Hawaii and Chile respectively. She led the design, fabrication and commissioning of the laser guide star facilities of both telescopes.

Academic service Since 2014, d'Orgeville has sat on the management committee of the Australian National University Gender Institute. She worked alongside SPIE on various gender equality initiatives, including collecting demographic data and surveying the adaptive optics community. She was awarded the SPIE Diversity Outreach award in 2021. She is a Fellow of SPIE and the Astronomical Society of Australia.

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Personal life d'Orgeville has a husband and two children.