Fabien Chéreau

Fabien Chéreau (born 17 September 1980 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France) is a French research engineer and computer programmer best known for authoring the planetarium software Stellarium, a free, open source astronomy software package which renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time.

Fabien Chéreau
Born (1980-09-17) September 17, 1980
Villefranche-sur-Saône, France
EducationLycée du Val de Saône
Tampere University of Technology
National Institute of Applied Sciences
OccupationProgrammer
Years active2000–present
Known forStellarium

He previously worked as a Research Engineer at the Paris Observatory for the satellite Gaia of European Space Agency on a CNES-funded position for the On-board Detection and the Radial Velocity Spectrometer working groups. He worked in ESO on a plugin for Stellarium, called VirGO, from April 2008 to 2010.

Chéreau wrote the first version of the Gaia on-board detection algorithm. He worked on the definition of the Spectro sky mappers and was in charge of the development of the algorithms for these instruments.

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