Christopher Gerekos

Current position

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)".

Short CV

Education

2014–2016: Master's Degree in Physics, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Thesis: "Investigating the impact of β-stabilisation in JET hybrid plasmas through non-linear gyrokinetic simulations".
2010–2013: Bachelor's Degree in Physics, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Project: "Supersymmetry breaking in quantum mechanics".

Noteworthy courses

Mar–Apr 2015: "Introduction to Space Systems Engineering", S. Walker (University of Southampton), ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Nertherlands.
Jun 2018: "Phased Array Technology for Next Generation Communications and Radar", R. Mailloux (Arcon) and J. Herd (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), University of Trento, Italy.

Previous positions

European Space Agency (ESA)

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

Computer science knowledge

Programming languages: Mathematica, Matlab, FORTRAN 90/95, IDL.
Shells: Bash, Command prompt.
Publishing: Latex, HTML/CSS.
Others: Xfdtd, ANSYS, DesignSpark PCB, Arduino (C++).