Chimie Quantique et Photophysique

Scientific Career

PhD in Chemistry, ULB, 1999
Postdoctoral Researcher with the SSTC and ESA, 1999-2001
Postdoctoral Researcher / Scientific Research Worker with the FNRS (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium) 2001-2004
Postdoctoral Researcher with Belspo and and ESA, 2004-2005
Research Associate with the F.N.R.S. since 2005

"Chimie de l'atmosphère" (CHIM-F-405)
"Spectroscopie atmosphérique et télédétection spatiale" (CHIM-F-454)
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral School "Sciences de l'Univers, de l'Espace, de la Terre et du Climat" (UNITER)

Member of ACCENT: Atmospheric Composition Change: The European Network of Excellence. PI in the Troposat-2 integration task.
Member of the ACE / Scisat-1 Scientific Team.
Member of the "ESA Category-1 Advisory Group".
Participant and working group leader in the "Tropospheric Composition and Air Quality (TRAQ)" Earth Explorer candidate mission; Member of the "Groupe Scientifique TRAQ".
Contributor the ESA project "Composition of the Atmosphere: Mission concepts and Sentinel observation techniques (CAMELOT)".
PI in the project POLARCAT (Polar Study using Aircraft, Remote Sensing, Surface Measurements and Models, of Climate, Chemistry, Aerosols, and Transport), selected as an International Polar Year Activity. Coordinator: A. Stohl
Co-PI of two proposals submitted in response to the EPS/ESA Annoucement of Opportunity, 2004. Coordinators: C. Clerbaux, M. De Mazière.
PI and Co-PI of several expert studies for EUMETSAT and CNES, aiming at the definition of future satellite instruments.

European Space Agency (ESA) : http://www.esa.int/
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) : http://www.eumetsat.int/
IASI at the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) : http://smsc.cnes.fr/IASI/
Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) : http://www.ace.uwaterloo.ca/
POLARCAT : http://www.polarcat.no/polarcat/
ACCENT: Atmospheric Composition Change: The European Network of Excellence: http://www.accent-network.org/
Advanced exploitation of Ground-based data for Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate applications (AGACC): http://www.oma.be/AGACC/Home.html