PILOT Balloon borne instrument
Photometer
Bruno Maffei
Experimental Cosmologist and Astrophysicist
Professor of Physics and Astrophysics
at Institut
d'Astrophysique Spatiale and Université
Paris-Saclay
About Me
I have worked in the field of Radio to Sub-millimetre wave
astronomical instrumentation since 1990, when I started my PhD at the
IAS-Orsay, France. After a short stay at CalTech and IPAC in
Pasadena, I have then worked for 21 years in the UK (QMUL, Cardiff
University and The
University of Manchester / Jodrell
Bank Centre for Astrophysics), contributing to the
development of several astronomical instruments.
Since 2016, I am working on several R&D programmes on
cryogenics, optics and detector testing, leading an instrumentation group within
the Cosmology
team at the IAS
to support developments for CMB and far-infrared
Astronomy.
Research Projects
In parallel to Research and Development programmes, I am
contributing to several astronomical instruments, mostly
dedicated to the study of the Cosmic Microwave Background,
either operated from the ground, or from balloon and space
platforms. I have notably played a major role for the High
Frequency Instrument (HFI)
on the Planck
space mission, for which I have coordinated the optics group
and designed / developed many of the HFI focal plane cold
optics components.
Present projects
Athena X-IFU
(X-ray Integral Field Unit)
LiteBIRD
BISOU
(Balloon Interferometer for
Spectral Observations of the primordial Universe)
BINGO
( Baryon acoustic oscillations in Integrated Neutral Gas Observations)
Telescope and horn design
QUBIC
(Q&U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology)
Optics and Horn design
Past projects
QUIJOTE
(Q-U-I JOint TEnerife)
Telescope and Horn design
ArTéMIS
Bolometric camera for the APEX
telescope
Planck
Design, develoment and tests of HFI
focal plane; Coordinator of HFI optics group
FAST
(Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope)
Optics and L-Band receiver
Publications
Lists can be found at 
Past and Present PhD supervisions
At The University of Manchester
At Paris-Saclay university
| Dr Samantha Stever |
Characterisation and modelling of the interaction between sub-Kelvin bolometric detectors and cosmic rays (2019) |
| Dr Valentin Sauvage |
Development of a Closed Cycle Dilution Refrigerator for future cosmological missions (2023) |
| Mr Xavier Coulon |
Spectrometry of the sky: towards CMB
spectral distortions measurements. |
| Mrs Apolline Chappard |
Instrument concept studies for
spectrometry of the sky across a broad range of
frequencies |
| Mrs Anais Besnard |
Sub-K cryogenic developments for future
CMB projects |
Teaching
I have been teaching in French and in English, from 1st year undergraduate to postgraduate levels, at several universities in the UK and now in France.
Present teaching at Université Paris-Saclay
| Master (M1
P&A) Master 1st year |
Traitement du Signal Signal processing |
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| Master ( M2 OSAE - Outils et
Systèmes de l'Astronomie et de l'Espace) Master 2nd year |
Co-responsable
formation |
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| M2
OSAE |
Télécommunications |
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| M2 OSAE |
English for Engineers |
Contact
| Address: Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale Bat 121, Université Paris-Saclay 91405 Orsay Cedex France |
Phone Number: +33 (0)1 69 85 85 67 |
Email address: Bruno.Maffei@u-psud.fr |