Cardoso, Jean-François (19..-.... ; mathématicien)

Jean-FRançois Cardoso is born in 1958. He is Directeur de Recherche with the French CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris. Since 1989, he has been extensively working on all aspects of blind source separation and independent component analysis. In 2001, he joined the Planck collaboration, a cosmological mission of the European Spatial Agency, for the analyis of Planck data. He developped in particular the blind component separation method which extracted a full-sky high-resolution map of the Cosmic Microwave Background out of the 9 Planck frequency channels. In 2014, he was awarded the CNRS silver medal.