Projects

Academic projects

• System engineering and AIT planification for student 6U CubeSat IonSat at CSEP/Ecole polytechnique (2022-2023)
  • Space engineering, orbital mechanics, tests, team managment
  • Talk at the 13th European Cubesat Symposium in 2023 in Leuven, Belgium

• Galaxy morphology measurements from James Webb Space Telescope images using SourceXtractor++ at Cosmic DAWN Center (2024)
  • Astrophysics, astronomy, Python (numpy, matplotlib, astropy, pandas...), AWS (EC2, S3), SourceXtractor++, bibliographic research
  • Results have been published on the DAWN JWST Archive
  • Paper in preparation...

• Design of satellite tracking algorithms for an X-band ground station at EPFL Spacecraft Team (2024)
  • Telecommunications, astronomy, Python (numpy, matplotlib, astropy, scipy, openturns...), statistics (kriging, Monte-Carlo simulations...)
  • Python package satastro developed for astronomy of or from satellites computations

• Observation and analysis of the tri-colour light-curve of asteroid (6) Hebe at DUAO/OCA (2024)
  • Astronomy, Python (numpy, matplotlib, astropy, pandas...), image processing, model fitting, bibliographic research
  • Python pipeline astrocal developed to process images and extract light curves

• Development of control algorithms for autonomous obstacle overcoming with a tracked robot with flipper arms at Exail (2023)
  • ROS2, C++, Gazebo, bibliographic research, robot control

• Space mission concept design of a solar observatory at Sun-Earth L4 at EPFL (2024)
  • Team leading and organization, space systems engineering, bibliographic research, basics in heliophysics and instrumentation, spacecraft design
  • Mission concept proposed for EUCASS 2025

• Functional model of the Coradi analyzer, an analog computer for calculating Fourier transforms at Mus'X/Ecole polytechnique (2023)
  • Historical research, CAD (Fusion 360), 3D printing, prototyping, science communication

• Theoretical study of a satellite attitude control system using fluids for rotation damping at CSEP/Ecole polytechnique (2023-2024)
  • Bibliographic research, fluid mechanics, CFD (SPlisH SPlasH, Ansys Fluent)

Independent projects

• Une nuit au Mus'X "Les polytechniciens et l'exploration spatiale" with Astronautix&Mus'X/Ecole polytechnique (2023)
  • Organization and animation of a live emission for popularizing space sciences

• Les bases (détaillés) (2024)
  • Mini-courses about science and engineering topics (astronomy, satellites...) to help students star working on engineering projects

• Ingenuity trajectory from navigation camera images (2021)
  • Python (numpy, opencv, matplotlib), image feature recognition, template matching, optical flow

• Geometrical optics simulation in Python (2024)
  • Python (numpy, matplotlib), astronomy, optics