Plenary Talks
| Optical Instruments in ESA’s Earth Observation Missions by Jean-Loup Bézy, CSC Expansion CO2 Mission Study Manager |
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Jean-Loup Bézy graduated from the University of Louvain-La-Neuve (B) in 1983 and from Ecole Supérieure d’Optique in Orsay (F) in 1986. In 1985 he was teaching assistant at the University of Delaware (USA). In 1987 he joined ESA-ESTEC as responsible for the procurement of the ocean colour instrument MERIS that flew on board Envisat. In 2000 he became section head of Optical Instruments in the Earth Observation directorate, where he has been leading pre-development activities of optical instrumentation for the next generation of ESA’s missions. In 2018, he has been nominated as study manager of the Copernicus Space Segment Expansion CO2 mission. In 2008 he was awarded the Cannes International Prize for Water and Space, as an international recognition of his work in Earth Observation Space programmes. |
| Innovative Optics for the ESA Space Science Program by Marcos Bavdaz, Head of ESA’s Technology Preparation Section for Space Science |
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| Marcos Bavdaz has an engineering degree in technical physics and a PhD in applied physics, both from the Technical University of Vienna. Currently, as Head of the Technologies Preparation Section at ESA/ESTEC, he is responsible for the technology preparation of the ESA Science Program future missions. The patent for the Silicon Pore Optics carries his name, and defines the baseline X-ray optics technology for the selected Large Class Science mission Athena. Dr Bavdaz has published more than 200 papers in professional literature, on space system studies and technology innovation. He is a regular session chair and member of organizing committees, and invited speaker to renowned conferences and symposia worldwide. Marcos Bavdaz was appointed an ESA Senior Advisor in 2008. |
| Optics in Japan’s Space Missions by Toshiyoshi Kimura, D.Sc, Director, Sensor System Research Group,R&D Directorate, JAXA |
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| Dr. Toshiyoshi Kimura is currently Director of Sensor System Research Group, Research and Development Directorate, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). For 30 years, he worked as an electro optical engineer, system engineer and also project scientist of Earth Observation mission. He exhibited leadership to materialize major JAXA Earth Observation missions, such as GCOM-W, GCOM-C and EarthCARE/CPR, which is a joint mission between ESA and JAXA. After he served as Associate Director of Engineering at Earth Observation Research Center, he was assigned to be current position from 2014. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in Atmospheric Physics. |
| Optics in Russia’s Space Science Program by Oleg Korablev, IKI- Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Science |
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| Oleg Korablev graduated from Moscow University in 1985, and joined Space Research Institute (IKI) of Russian Academy of Science. There he obtained the Ph.D in 1992. He worked with Profs V. Krasnopolsky and V. Moroz, on planetary space projects such as Vega, Phobos-88, Mars-96. From 1997 to mid-2000 he is part-time in Service d’Aéronomie in France (now LATMOS), where he worked with J.-L. Bertaux for Mars Express and Venus Express projects. He has obtained his Doctor of Sci. (Habilitation) degree in 2003 in IKI. He has become a deputy director of IKI since 2002, and the head of planetary department of IKI since 2005. His achievements in optics are the development and contribution to multiple spectral instruments for the planetary exploration, such as SPICAM, SPICAV, SOIR, etc. His principal involvement at present is the ExoMars project, where he acts, among other responsibilities, as the PI of ACS experiment on TGO. He is also the Chair of the Commission on the Solar system planets of Russian Space Council, and the Chair of COSPAR Commission B (since 2012). In 2016 he has been elected the Corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences. |
| Recent CNES developments in Optronics (Earth Observation, Science, Telecom) by Bruno Cugny, Deputy Director of Instrumental Systems, CNES |
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| Bruno CUGNY started his career at CNES in 1987 working successively on DORIS, GPS, Radar Altimeter Poseidon1 and other various remote sensing microwave instruments such as rain radar and microwave radiometers. From 1994 to 2008 he was in charge of the Radar team (SI/AR) who participated to studies and development of Poseidon Follow On radar altimeter, Megha-Tropiques, SARAL/AltiKa and preliminary studies on SWOT instrument concept with JPL. He is up to now Deputy Director of Instrumental Systems in charge of Instruments preliminary studies and R&D related to optical and microwaves instruments for Earth observation and Science. He is also in charge of co-organizing with ESA the ICSO conference. |
| Optics in NASA’s Earth Science Program by Steven P. Neeck, Earth Science Division NASA Headquarters |
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| Steven P. Neeck is Deputy Associate Director for Flight Programs in the Earth Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, a position which he has held since 2005. He has worked in the area of satellite remote sensing instrumentation and mission design and management since 1978. As Deputy Associate Director, he contributes to the technical and programmatic leadership of NASA’s Earth Science Flight Program portfolio of 22 Earth observing satellites and hosted instruments in operation and 19 in development. Prior to joining NASA Headquarters, he was Chief of the Earth Science Missions Office at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) where he contributed to the development of a numerous Earth science satellite remote sensing missions and instruments. Earlier he held related positions in academia and private industry associated with the design, development, and application of Earth remote sensing technology. He holds B.S. and M.Sc. degrees from Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of London (UK), respectively, and is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics, a Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a member of SPIE. |
| Optics in NASA's Astrophysics Missions by Lee Feinberg, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center |
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| Lee Feinberg is the Optical Telescope Element (OTE) Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a role he has been in since 2002. Lee is also the Senior Large Optical Systems Engineer and was formerly the Assistant Chief for Technology in the Instrument Systems and Technology Division at Goddard. Lee was part of the optical team that repaired and later upgraded the Hubble Space Telescope and is currently a member of both the Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) and Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx) science and technology development teams. Lee is a fellow of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) and is an associate editor of the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS). |
