Our experts
Christine Fallet
CNES, France
Christine Fallet is the CARIOQA-PMP project coordinator. She brings extensive expertise in spatial systems and project development.
Karin Kiewisch
DLR, Germany
Karin is CARIOQA-PMP’s Programmatic Coordinator. She enjoys working at the interface of science, policy and international cooperation at the German Space Agency.
Naceur Gaaloul
Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Naceur is the head of the “Theory of Quantum Sensing” group at the Institute of Quantum Optics supported by the DFG’s Excellence Cluster QuantumFrontiers. He is pushing the quantum engineering of ultracold gases to realize precision measurements for fundamental physics and inertial sensing applications.
Federica Migliaccio
Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
Federica Migliaccio is full professor of geodesy and geomatics at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her main research field is satellite geodesy, with particular interest in satellite gravimetry.
Pierre-Alain Gominet
Airbus Defence and Space, France
Pierre-Alain is working at Airbus Defence & Space as an Optical Engineer. He is the AIT (Assembly, Integration and Test) manager of the EM Instrument developed in the frame of CARIOQA PMP project.
Katharina Lechner
Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
Katharina has a master’s degree in geodesy and geoinformation with specialization in physical and satellite geodesy at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). She is working as a research Assistant/PhD student since April 2023 at TUM under the supervision of Professor Pail.
Thomas Lévèque
CNES, France
Thomas Lévèque is the CARIOQA-PMP’s Technical Coordinator. He brings its expertise in Quantum Sensors design, acting at the interface between academy and industry. |
Maike Lachmann
Airbus Defence and Space, Germany
Maike is working for Airbus Defence & Space in the optical instruments department. She is the system engineer for the CARIOQA-PMP Physics Package in which the atom interferometric measurements are performed.
David Bisconti
Leonardo, Italy
David has been working in Space Business Unit at Leonardo as RF System Engineer since 2011. He is Project Engineering Manager of EM Microwave Source, the Master Clock of the whole gravimeter instrument developed for CARIOQA-PMP project. |
Wolf von Klitzing |
FORTH-IESL, Greece
Wolf von Klitzing is the PI of the BEC and Matter Waves group (www.bec.gr, www.iesl.forth.gr), and the Space Optics Laboratory. The BEC group works on Bose Einstein Condensation and matter-wave interferometry whereas the Space Optics Laboratory concerns itself with technologies for Atom Quantum Sensors in space and with optical (quantum) communication between earth and LEO satellites.
Before starting the Cretan Matter-Waves group he worked at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB) of the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) in Paris, La Sapienzia in Rome, and AMOLF.