Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experiences

June 2025 – Present 

Aerospace Project Research Associate

• 50% Martian System: experimental work in preparation for the JAXA/MMX mission. Effects of space weathering on Phobos simulant.  

• 50% Mercury: work in preparation for the ESA/JAXA/BepiColombo mission. NASA/MESSENGER data analysis. 

Nov. 2024 – Mar. 2025 

Postdoctoral Researcher in Planetary Sciences

• 80% Effects of low temperatures on the spectral properties of meteorites

• 20% Impact of observation geometry on the detection of space weathering on Mercury.

Oct. 2021 – Sept. 2024 

PhD: The Volcanic and Space-Weathered Surface of Mercury: Spectral Properties and Geological Evolution 

• Use of NASA/MESSENGER/MASCS data to study impact structures and their volcanic infills. Laboratory ion irradiation experiments to study space weathering on terrestrial analogues of Mercury.

Mar. 2021 – Jun. 2021 

Intern: Spectral Properties of Effusive Volcanism on Mercury

• Study of effusive volcanism on Mercury using NASA/MESSENGER/MASCS spectral data. Characterisation of spectral units associated with impact structures and their volcanic infills.

May 2019 – Jun. 2019 

Intern: Spectral Analyses of Meteorites in the Laboratory

• FTIR microscopy measurements on matrix grains extracted from carbonaceous chondrites. Sample preparations and spectral analyses.

Juil. 2018 - Juil. 2018 

Intern: Database: Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary on Earth

• Development of an online resource to record the various outcrops showing the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary on a global scale.

Education

2021-2024

PhD: Astronomy and Astrophysics

• LIRA, Paris Observatory, PSL, France

2019-2021

MSc: Planetary Sciences and Space Exploration (with distinction)

• 1st year: ERASMUS at the free University of Brussels, Belgium
• 2nd year: Paris Observatory, France

2016-2019

BSc: Earth Sciences (with distinction)

• UGA, Grenoble, France