Christopher Gerekos

Short CV

2016 - present : PhD student, Remote Sensing Laboratory, University of Trento (Italy). Project : "Definition, design, implementation and validation of acquisition strategies and data analysis methodologies for the Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) in the framework of the JUpiter ICy moon Explorer (JUICE)".

2014 - 2016 : Master's Degree in Physics, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Thesis title : "Investigation the impact of beta stabilisation in JET hybrid plasmas through non-linear gyrokinetic simulations".
2010 - 2013 : Bachelor's Degree in Physics, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium).

Mar - Apr 2015 : Introduction to Space Systems Engineering, 3-day intensive course for European Space Agency (ESA) Young Graduate Trainees on introductory aspects of space engineering at ESTEC (Noordwijk, the Nertherlands).

Feb - Apr 2015 : Research internship at the Advanced Concepts Team, ESA/ESTEC (Noordwijk, the Nertherlands)
- Duration : 3 months, 40h/week.
- Project's outcome : Discovery of analytical solutions to the problem of positioning with a fully-relativistic global navigation satellite system.

C. Gerekos, A. Hees, C. Le Poncin-Lafitte, A. Heffernan, “High order expansion of the time transfer function” (in preparation).
C. Gerekos, A. Heffernan, “The time transfer and Synge world functions in relativistic global navigation satellite systems”, (in preparation).
C. Gerekos, “The time transfer function in RPS”, poster contribution for the 593rd WE-Heraeus Seminar on Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation, June 2015, Bad Honnef, Germany.
C. Gerekos, “The time transfer and Synge world functions in relativistic global navigation satellite systems”, talk for the Relativistic Geodesy 2016 conference, March 2016, Bad Honnef, Germany.

Operating systems : I am familiar with both Linux and Windows operating systems.
Programming languages : Mathematica, Matlab, fair knowledge of FORTRAN 90/95 and C++, notions of IDL.
Publishing : Latex, HTML/CSS.
Others : DesignSpark PCB, Arduino (C++), notions of ANSYS.