Sébastien Derriere works as Astronome Adjoint for the CDS.
He has a long experience in the management of astronomical catalogues, started with dedicated query tools for the publication of the 2MASS and DENIS near‐infrared catalogues in VizieR. He co‐supervised a PhD dedicated to the multi wavelength cross‐identification and statistical classification of XMM sources with other catalogues.
His current work is focussed on Virtual Observatories, and he contributed in the recently released CDS catalogue cross‐match service.