Hi! こんにちは!
I’m a satellite Calibration and Validation Engineer at Thales in Toulouse, France. I am responsible for the design, development and deployment of the image processing algorithms, including the calibration and validation of satellite imagery. I love everything space-related, and working on Earth observation imagery enables me to make an impact on the industry and society at large.
I previously worked as a Data Scientist at constellr, a European newspace startup based in Brussels (Belgium) and Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) building a thermal and hyperspectral satellite constellation to serve digital agriculture. I was responsible for the calibration and validation design and development of the HiVE thermal mission. I have researched novel calibration techniques and implemented cloud-ready data for our customers.
I currently hold a Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics on the topic massive star observations using high-contrast imaging, which I have completed at the Institute of Astrophysics of KU Leuven, Belgium. You can find my thesis here.
Lead scientist in the CHIPS project, I have become an expert in the detection of companions around massive stars using state-of-the-art techniques in imaging and statistical analysis. These methods range from Angular and Spectral Differential Imaging (ADI & SDI), Principal Component Analysis (PCA), LOCI, Negative Fake Companion (NEGFC), … data mining in general. I contributed to the development of new and successful post-processing libraries in high-contrast imaging such as the Vortex Imaging Processor (VIP) and pyKLIP.
You will find here a description of my past and present projects, a list of my publications and my talks and my Curriculum Vitae.
Do not hesitate to contact me for questions or potential collaborations!
どうも ありがとうございます。
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known”, Carl Sagan.