• 2020-Now: I work as a thermo-mechanical engineer at the Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL) in Belgium. From the beginning, I work on several projects in parallel: ARRAKIHS (SBA), ATHENA (X-IFU), CO2M (FCU), Comet Interceptor (RMA), METIMAGE, MTG (IRS), SPICA (SAFARI-BBOP). All these projects offer me a wide diversity of tasks:

  • Scientific and theoretical (cryogenics, structural, mechanics, vibration, electromagnetic, thermal)

  • Numerical skills (MATLAB, SAMCEF, ONELAB GMSH, ESATAN)

  • Technical (assembly, maintenance, refurbishment, handling).

The CSL also allows me to participate in thermal and/or optical test campaigns. I therefore have responsibilities related to the cryogenic facilities (liquefier, refrigerator) of CSL to ensure the cooling of the tested specimens (i.e. Euclid).

In 2023, I started a new position as project manager for the development of a Straylight baffle. Since then, I coordinate the project team. I am in constant communication with the European consortium. I participate also at different workshop. This project gives me the opportunity to develop my knowledge in different areas; mainly in optics, mechanical design, thermal design. I develop also my communication and improve my schedule management.

In 2024, we held the final meeting of our cryo-mechanical project (SPICA SAFARI). After the cancelation of the SPICA mission in 2020, CSL had the opportunity to continue the cryogenic project. This project led to the development of a space cryogenics mechanism to flip a mirror from one to another position. This mechanism, called MSM (Mode Selector Mechanism), is characterised by a passive locking and a very low energy consumption for the rotation, about 0.5 mJ. This project was useful in order to experiment more atypique ways in the design. For example, it has been decided to use 3D printed metallic flexible pivots. These have been printed by CSEM in Switzerland. The stiffness of these, was measured first by CSEM and then by CSL at cryogenic temperatures (LHe and LN2). This was an important part of the project to design correctly the mechanism for cryogenics application. For that purpose, a specific we developed a cryogenics test bench frictionless and unconstrained to measure stiffness with an accuracy of 0.1 N.mm.

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• 2019-2020: I have completed a 6-months internship at OHB System AG in Bremen, Germany. The purpose of my internship at OHB System AG is to conduct thermal modelling of the core of a 3D printer using COMSOL Multiphysics. The thermal modeling are then used to define the thermal transition zone (length/temperature setting) during the printing process to achieve high quality of printed parts (i.e. mechanical features). Thermal analysis are conducted in gravity and microgravity condition to analyze the effect in space. The activity proposed is based on the engineering support to a current OHB project for the European Space Agency, based on the development and manufacturing of an ALM printer able to use engineering polymers, to produce large parts and overcome the build volume constraints. Moreover the printer shall be compatible with the International Space Station (ISS).

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• 2019: Member of the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC). Study of the different aspects of a manned Mars mission, in particular study of the beneficial contribution of  international engagement

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• 2018-2019: I work like research assistant in the CurAl laboratory at the University of Québec at Chicoutimi with Pr. Dilip Kumar SARKAR.
  We prepare and characterize different samples for hydrophobic application by X-Ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier Transformation Infrared Spectroscopy (IFTR), Sanning Electronic Microscope (SEM).

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• 2018: I have completed an internship during 3 months at the National Institute of Materials Physics (NIMP) of Romania with Pr. Petre BADICA (please find attached a Letter of Recommendation from P. Badica) and at the University Politehnica of Bucharest with Pr. Dan BATALU.
  In this work, hard ceramics (boron carbide (B4C) and titanium diboride (TiB2) are mixed with cobalt (Co). It is an additive element which has a lower melting point and thus can be used for easier fabrication of cutting tools (at lower temperature, pressure and time). Ceramics were milled with 20 at. % Co in a planetary ball milling (2) machine for 20h then sintered (1) by Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) at different temperatures, selected near the eutectic point of Co-B, Co- C. Hardness values of 15.9 and 16.8 GPa were obtained for Co-B4C and Co-TiB2 respectively. X-ray diffraction indicates on a composite complex phase composition.

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• 2015: I have realized a 4-week traineeship in a meteorological laboratory at the Physical Atmospheric laboratory (LaMP) from the Physical Observatory of the Globe of Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC) in Clermont-Ferrand (France), under the supervision of Pr Aurélie COLOMB.
  During this internship, my goal was to extract data to study the atmospherics’ conditions which create a temperature inversion. Our researches and the analysis of different parameters had allowed to discover a similarity between temperature and pollution peaks in altitude.