Position: Course academic programme manager
Lecturing: Spectrometer, Hands-on application

worked 23 years at the European Space Agency in the Optics section as optical engineer. During his career he was responsible for technology developments on telescopes, spectrometers and lightweight ceramic mirror materials. Further on he was supporting the following optical flight instruments: GOMOS on ENVISAT, MSG, GERB on MSG, NIRSpec for JWST, MIRI for JWST and SEOSAT.

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1992 - 2015 ESTEC, optical engineer in the Optics section
1997 - 1992 Scientific Assistant in at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena
1985 - 1987 Academy of Sciences Jena
1981 - 1985 PhD in Holographic Interferometry at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena
1976 - 1981 study of Physics at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena

Position: ESA Euclid Mission & Payload Manager
Lecturing: Mechanical Engineering

Jean-Christophe Salvignol is the Euclid Payload and Mission Manager working at the European Space Agency. He leads a team in charge of the procurement of the Payload Module (industrial contract) including two large instruments, the VIS and the NISP (nationally funded). He and his team are also responsible for the overall mission performances of the space and ground segments.

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2012 - present ESA, Euclid Mission & Payload Manager
2004 - 2012 ESA, JWST NIRSpec and MIRI Mechanical Engineer
2001 - 2004 ESA, Rosetta Mechanical Engineer
1992 - 2001 ATOS-NL Consultant in structural design and analysis for space programs
1986 - 1991 Engineering degree at Institute National des Sciences Appliquées

Position: Research Director, ENEA
Lecturing: Optical coatings

Angela Piegari has been working for 30 years in the field of optical thin films and coatings at ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Sustainable Development). Since 1994 she has been the Director of the Optical Coatings Laboratory of ENEA. She collaborates with many European Institutes in the frame of European projects and is member of various technical committees. In 2007 she was elected as member of the Board of the European Technology Platform “Photonics21” and in 2013 she has been appointed as President of the “Italian Society of Optics and Photonics”, national branch of the European Optical Society. Author of more than 100 papers, she recently edited a new book on “Optical Thin Films and Coatings” and in 2015 was Director of the Winter College “Light: a bridge between Earth and Space”.

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2010 - 2016 Research Director at ENEA
1994 - 2015 Responsible for the Optical Coatings Laboratory at ENEA
1977 - 1994 Researcher in the field of Optical Coatings
1977 Graduated with honours in Physics

Position: Bussiness development, REOSC
Lecturing: Optical Design

Roland GEYL is an Optical Engineer graduated from Paris Orsay Institute of Optics Maurice working at Reosc, SAFRAN Group in France. During more than three decades he contributed to most of the space projects at REOSC either as lens designer, manufacturing and testing engineer, program manager, sales manager and plant director. Today he focuses on business development. His main task is to explore new business opportunities for REOSC and act as expert in lens design, manufacturing and testing. Current research is on freeform optics for astronomy and space.

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2013 - today Reosc, France, Business development
1999 - 2012 Sagem-Reosc, France, Sales Manager & Safran Emeritus Expert in High performance optics
1981 - 1998 Reosc, France, Lens design & Engineering / Optical manufacturing & Testing/ Program management / Division Manager )
1976 - 1979 Study at Ecole Superieure d'Optique (Major of promotion)
1982 - 2002 lecturer of Lens Design course at the Ecole Supérieure d'Optique, Paris-Orsay

Position: Head of Section System Division, CSEM
Lecturing: Thermal Analysis and Design

Ivar KJELBERG is Norwegian and Engineer in Physics, from EPF in Lausanne (CH) with a Ph.D. thesis on Ion Temperature Laser Metrology of a Tokamak Plasma. He joined the Optical Systems section of CSEM SA, a Swiss RTO, in 1988, then developing opto-mechatronics inter-satellite laser-link components. Today, as Senior Expert at the Systems Division, his activities are mainly focused on simulations with COMSOL Multiphysics®of opto-mechanical and AO systems. Linking MEMS and fine mechanics to optical components in their true multi-physics environment.

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1955 - Born in Baerum, Norway.
1974 - 1979 - Physics study at "École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne", (EPFL), Switzerland, with the title "Ingénieur Physicien Diplomé EPF".
1979 - 1986 - PhD "Docteur ès sciences" from the "Centre de Physique des Plasmas" of the EPFL, Switzerland
1987 - 1988 - Post Doc at the "Norwegian Defence Research Establishment" (NDRE) at Kjeller, Norway.
1988 - today - At the "Centre Suisse d'Électronique et de Microtechnique" CSEM SA, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in the functions respectively of "R&D Engineer", "Project Manager", "Head of Section" and currently "Senior Expert" in the Systems Division. Active on the procurement and the execution of the design, simulations, manufacturing and tests of numerous scientific instruments projects, mainly of advanced, active, opto-mechanic systems for the Space (ESA), the Astronomy (ESO) community and industry in general, by combining fine mechanics and M(O)EMS design.

Position: Optical instrument calibration engineer, ESA
Lecturing: Optical Instrument Calibration

Berit Ahlers is an optical calibration engineer working at the European Space Agency. Currently, she is supporting several Sentinel projects within the Copernicus programme. Her main task is to support UV-VIS-NIR hyperspectral optical instrument projects in view of L1b data performance from the point of calibration. Background GOME-2, Sciamachy, NirSpec, ExoMars, S4, S5, S5p.

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since 2010 optical instrument calibration engineer in the optics section at ESA ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
1999 - 2010 research employee in the space section at TNO institute for applied physics, Delft, The Netherlands
1998 Engineer for SCIAMACHY EGSE operation at Dornier Satellitensysteme, Germany
1997 - 1998 Dipl.-Ing. Final thesis in the field of spectro-radiometry, remote sensing at the research centre FZ Jülich, Germany
1995 - 1996 Satellite data processing at MRJ/GTAC Tucson, USA

Position: ESA Euclid Mission & Payload System Engineer
Lecturing: Requirements and Radiometric Analysis

Jose Lorenzo Alvarez is a systems engineer working at the European Space Agency Science Projects department. He was the Principal System Engineer and Instrument Manager for the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) in the James Webb Space Telescope. Currently, he is the Mission and Payload System Engineer for the Euclid Project.

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2013 - present ESA ESTEC, Mission Systems Engineer
2010 - 2013 ESA ESTEC, JWST MIRI Instrument Manager
2006 - 2010 ESA ESTEC, JWST MIRI Systems Engineer
2003 - 2006 Brimrose Corporation of America - Optical Product Development Engineer
2001 - 2003 CIENA Corporation - Senior Passive Photonics Engineer
1999 - 2001 University of Maryland Photonic Switching and Integrated Optoelectronics Laboratory - Research Assistant
Education
2011 INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP)
1995-1999 MSc Telecommunications Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain) - Optoelectronics Major

Position : JWST System Integration and Test Manager, NASA Goddard, ESA
Lecturing : Verification

Maurice te Plate is a systems engineer working at the European Space Agency. He is currently stationed at NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD where he has the position of ESA System Integration and Test Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope Project. His main task is to ensure and coordinate a safe and proper integration and testing of the two European instruments on JWST: NIRSpec and MIRI.

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2012 - 2016 NASA Goddard, ESA JWST System Integration and Test Manager
2003 - 2012 ESA-ESTEC, ESA JWST Optical System Engineer
2001 - 2002 ESA-ESTEC, Optical Engineer in the Optics section
1995 - 2001 TNO Institute of Applied Physics, Optical Engineer/Designer
1994 Abbott Laboratories USA, Optical Consultant
1988 - 1993 Master's Degree in Applied Physics at Technical University of Twente

Position: Optical Instrument Engineer, ESA
Lecturing: Straylight Minimization in Optical Systems

Volker Kirschner is Optical Instrument Engineer at the European Space Agency. In his position in the TEC Directorate he supports projects regarding optical design, straylight, manufacturing of optics and testing. His experience is based on his support to MERIS, Herschel, Planck, Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-5.

since 2001 Optical Instrument Engineer at the European Space Agency, Noordwijk
1998 - 2001 Optical Engineer at Dutch Applied Research Organisation TNO, Delft
1997 - 1998 Young Graduate Trainee at the European Space Agency, Noordwijk
1996 - 1997 Research Assistant at Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Mechanics, Jena
1989 - 1996 Study of Physics at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena

Position: Optical & System Engineer, AMOS
Lecturing: Lens Mounting

Gregory Lousberg is a system engineer working at Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems (AMOS), Liege, Belgium. He is involved in space optical instrumentation as well as in ground-based optical telescopes. He ensures that the performances of the systems comply with the requirements, both at design and AIT campaign levels.

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since 2010 AMOS, Optical & System Engineer
2006 - 2010 PhD in Superconductivity, University of Liege
2000 - 2016 Master in physical engineering, University of Liege and Swiss Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL)