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Date Submitted:	14-10-2008
Last Modified:	15-10-2008 (10:26)

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Current job:	Optical Instrumentation Specialist
Employment Term:	Permanent
Relocation:	Anywhere
Date available:	>3months
Industry:
Keywords	* Team managing and inter-cultural communication skills * Good knowledge of space environment specificities * Flexibility and creativity

Language proficiency:

· Spanish and Catalan: native languages

· French: fluent, both written and spoken

· English: fluent, both written and spoken

Professional experience relevant for the post:

Nov 2004 to date	Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) - Instruments Office. *FRANCE* · Responsible for the development, integration and test of the high resolution, super spectral camera for the Venµs satellite (French-Israeli cooperation) · Since July 2006 onwards, other activities in parallel such as instrument specialist for feasibility studies (Phase 0) and lecturer at CNES training program TTVS
Nov 2004 July 2006	Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) - Instruments Office. *FRANCE* · Responsible for the latest on-ground testing and in-orbit checkout of the Infrared Imaging Radiometer (IIR) on the Calipso satellite
Jan 2003 July 2004	Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) - Instruments Office. *FRANCE* · Working on a R&D project based on a space borne static Fourier Transform spectrometer for CO₂ monitoring · Duties: spectrometer performance model development; definition of the radiometric calibration tests; computation of error budgets; alignment of the optical bench; definition of the performance verification plan
2002	Internship at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), JAXA. JAPAN · Working on the spectroscopic characterisation of meteorite types in the scope of the HAYABUSA asteroid sample return mission

Optical Instrumentation related Computer Skills:

Optical computation software: Basic knowledge of Zemax and Code V

Academic background:

March 2007	Optical Systems. Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Orsay. *FRANCE* Content of the training programme: Performance evaluation and optimisation of optical systems / How to specify an optical system
June 2006	Optical Systems Design, Optical Computer Assisted Design. Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Orsay. *FRANCE* Content of the training programme: Main methods for analysing and optimising image forming optical systems / Training to Code V software
2001-2002	Master of Space Studies (MSS) at the International Space University (ISU), Strasbourg. *FRANCE*
1999-2001	Degree in Engineering at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Strasbourg (ENSPS), Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg. *FRANCE*
1995-1999	Licenciatura de Física (equivalent to B.Sc. in Physics) at Universitat de Barcelona (UB). *SPAIN*

Other space related experience:

June 2004

Participation in the 37^th ESA Professional Parabolic Flight Campaign. Performing an experiment to study the effects of microgravity on visual illusions in cooperation with Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (CERCO / CNRS)

September 2002

Participation in the 5^th ESA Student Parabolic Flight Campaign. Carrying out an experiment on human perception in conditions of weightlessness

Interests:

Travelling, rugby, scuba diving, wine

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