Dr Marco Esposito is Managing Director at cosine Remote Sensing.
Marco completed his PhD in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Naples, specializing in airborne remote sensing for air quality and land management. Having worked on various aerospace projects in Italy, most recently as coordinator of the Environmental Research Aircraft Lab of the Italian National Research Council, Marco moved to the Netherlands.
Marco spent almost 4 years at ESA ESTEC as calibration engineer first, in the science department working on EUV to IR sensors calibration for future planetary missions, and then as performance engineer in the Earth Observation department working on Sentinel 5 Precursor spectrometer TROPOMI.
Marco has been involved in a variety of research and development activities at cosine, all focusing on the miniaturization of optical instruments for Earth Observation and miniaturized suites of instruments for planetary exploration. Marco has been leading the development of space products including space Lidars for vegetation and bathymetry, as well as intelligent spectral imagers for EO from small satellites. He has produced more than 40 scientific publications, either as first author or as a co-author.
Having gained experience as system and performance engineer, project manager, program manager and team leader at cosine, Marco became managing director of cosine Remote Sensing as well as of the Italian branch of cosine. Marco led the commercialization of the hyperspectral product line at cosine, the first ever miniaturized class of imagers able to connect hyperspectral, thermal imaging and artificial intelligence techniques in one compact solution for the Earth observation market.
Marco is currently leading the scale-up of the remote sensing business at cosine as well as the setup of the space factory for the series production of smart remote sensing instruments for Earth Observation.
Oliver Jennrich, LISA Project Scientist at ESA and head of the astrophysics survey missions section in the science directorate of ESA. OJ joined ESA more than twenty years ago and has worked on LISA and the technology demonstrator LISA Pathfinder and has spent some time looking after ESA’s involvement in Suzaku as well as looking after studies on a Quantum Physics Platform and fundamental physics experiments on the planned Lunar Gateway.
Philippe Kubik has been working in CNES for 30 years. He was in charge of SPOT4 image quality performances in the late 90’ and joined the Pleiades High resolution imagery project team as system&satellite performances manager until the commissioning. In the Technical and Digital Direction of the Technical Center of CNES in Toulouse, he is now head of Instruments Techniques and Performance Department, a team of 150 people involved in mastering the whole chain of acquisition, transmission and signal processing in the whole spectrum and delivering qualified data
Dr. Senthil Kumar is one among the pioneers who has contributed to the development of Three Mirror Anastigmat based high spatial resolution panchromatic optical imager for IRS-1C satellite of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched in 1995. He has played a prominent role in the development of optical systems for “meter class” Cartosat-1 and Technology Experiments Satellite to “sub-meter class” Cartosat-2 and “foot class” Cartosat-3 satellites of ISRO. He has also immensely contributed to design and development of several optical systems for Earth resource observations, Meteorology and Planetary missions at various technical and functional capacity. Currently he is a Deputy Director in Space Applications Center, ISRO leading the development of satellite based Quantum and Optical communication.
Marc Sauvage is a researcher at CEA-Saclay. A specialist in space mission development, he first worked on the ISO and Herschel infrared telescopes, then since 2011 on the Euclid mission. In this project, he was coordinator of the development of the mission’s data processing systems, and since 2021 one of the two French representatives on the mission’s consortium board (of which he is currently chairman).
Mission Euclid
The Dark Universe: Euclid’s first year in space
Selected in 2011 as part of ESA’s Cosmic Vision program, the Euclid mission aims to elucidate, or at least constrain, the nature of dark energy, the mysterious component of modern cosmology that is invoked to explain the accelerating expansion of the Universe in the second half of its existence. While cosmological results will still have to wait until at least the first year of data has been processed (during 2026), the conference will present, in addition to the methods deployed to measure the Universe, some spectacular results obtained on objects closer to us (our Galaxy, and its neighbors) which highlight the exceptional quality of the mission’s instruments.
Meera Srinivasan received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is currently a Principal Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she has been working in the area of optical communications and signal processing for over 25 years. During this time, she contributed to numerous optical signaling and receiver architectures, several of which have been implemented and now demonstrated on the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) project. She is currently the DSOC Operations Manager, responsible for the coordination of the optical flight and ground terminals to execute link demonstrations.
Dr. Elsayed Talaat is the Director of the Office of Space Weather Observations at NOAA. In this role, he provides leadership and oversight of the development, acquisition, integration, installation, and acceptance of major system elements for NOAA’s operational environmental satellite systems.