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
  • Paper: DAWN JWST Archive: Morphology from profile fitting of over 340 000 galaxies in major fields, A. Genin et. al., 2025, A&A 699 A343 and arXiv
  • Accessible version of my paper: FR 🇫🇷 and EN 🇬🇧

• Ground segment, operations and mission analysis for student 3U CubeSat CHESS at EPFL Spacecraft Team (2024-2025)
  • Design of satellite tracking algorithms for an X-band ground station
    • Telecommunications, astronomy, Python (numpy, matplotlib, astropy, scipy, openturns...), statistics (kriging, Monte-Carlo simulations...)
    • Python package satastro developed for astronomy of or from satellites computations
  • Planification of satellite operations and procedures
  • Leader of the mission design pole

• Mirror tilting mechanism control and test for ESO's VLT BlueMUSE at EPFL LASTRO Astrobots (2025)
  • Open-loop control design and test of a fine tilting mechanism for the future BlueMUSE Integral Field Unit at ESO's VLT observatory

• 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 presented at EUCASS 2025, in Rome, Italy

• Space mission concept design of a cislunar space surveillance mission at EPFL (2025)
  • As part of a Concurrent Engineering course
  • Configuration, systems engineering, payload design
  • Mission concept report

• 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

• PANOPTES project with Callista/EFPL and STEM IH (2024-2025)

  • Design of an autonomous telescope for exoplanet transit observations + Fabrication of a unit at EPFL for the AstroPléiades association
  • Scientific outreach project targeting pupils and students in Global South countries

• 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

• Design of a 3m-wide wood observatory with SSA/EPFL (2025)
  • Complex parametrized CAD (Autodesk Fusion 360), finite element simulation, assembly process thinking, motorization mechanism design

• 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