Rate My Professor Héloïse Stevance

Dr Héloïse Stevance is a Schmidt AI in Science Fellow at the University of Oxford. Originally born and raised in France, she moved to the United Kingdom to study Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield. After working as a support astronomer at the Isaac Newton Group in La Palma for a year, she obtained her Masters of Physics in 2015. She subsequently completed a PhD in Spring 2019, focusing on the 3D shape of Core Collapse Supernovae. In July 2019, she joined the University of Auckland as a Research Fellow, where she researched the evolution of massive stars to better understand how they produce Supernovae and Kilonovae.

In April 2023, Dr Stevance joined the University of Oxford as one of the first Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellows and serves as a Research Associate at Green Templeton College. Her work focuses on developing AI models and a Virtual Research Assistant for the ATLAS sky survey and future surveys to detect and study astrophysical transients such as exploding stars. She is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Sheffield. In 2021, she received the Beatrice Tinsley Lectureship from the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand, which included a national tour of public lectures on black-hole and neutron-star mergers. In 2024, she was awarded the Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship by the Royal Astronomical Society.