I am a member of the Planetary Atmospheres group at the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB). We study the atmospheres of planets, to understand the composition and the atmospheric processes occurring in the other bodies of our Solar System, in particular Venus and Mars.
My current project is NOMAD, a spectrometer orbiting around Mars on the ESA ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter satellite. NOMAD was primarily designed and built in Belgium, as part of a large multinational team of engineers and scientists, and is operated from BIRA-IASB via the European Space Agency (ESA).
Since NOMAD launched in 2016, I am responsible for planning observations, calibrating the data, day-to-day management activities such as organising team meetings and telecons, and production of publicly available products for the ESA Planetary Science Archive. I also created and maintain the NOMAD website on behalf of the team. During the Manufacturing, Assembly, Integration and Testing (MAIT) phase of the mission, I was responsible for management of the project at BIRA-IASB, and led the ground calibration campaign prior to launch.
My previous work, in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics at the University of Oxford, centred on supporting laboratory measurements for the Diviner Lunar Radiometer on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a satellite orbiting the Moon.
Research and Interests
Curriculum Vitae
2014-Present Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (IASB-BIRA), Uccle, Brussels, Belgium. Project Manager of NOMAD, an instrument on the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter at Mars. Deputy Project Manager of VenSpec-H, a spectrometer selected for the ESA EnVision mission to Venus.
2011-2014 University of Oxford, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Oxford UK. Postdoctoral Research Assistant with Dr. N. E. Bowles
2007-2011 University of Oxford, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department, Oxford UK. D.Phil. project: “Measurements of Properties of the Lunar Surface Using the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment on the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter” with Dr. N. E. Bowles and Dr. S. B. Calcutt
2003-2007 Durham University, Department of Physics, Durham, UK. M.Sci. (Hons) Physics: 1st Class. Specialising in Optics, Condensed Matter and Astrophysics
2001-2003 Greenhead College, Huddersfield, UK. A/AS Levels: Physics (A); Maths (A); Chemistry (A); Computing (A)
Working knowledge of: Python 2 and 3, MatLab, Autodesk Inventor, SQLite, git/svn version control, LaTeX, Linux, Microsoft Office
Competent user of: LabVIEW, IDL, Fortran, Pascal, Delphi, C, HTML/PHP, FEM Pro (Finite element modelling software), MPLAB (PIC microcontroller programming software)
Basic knowledge of: Zemax (optical modelling software), Javascript
Calibration lead for NOMAD
Cleanroom testing of space flight components and instruments
Design, construction and running of turbomolecular vacuum and cryogenic systems
Milling machines, lathes, slot drills, hard and soft soldering equipment
Electrodynamic shaker (for vibration testing of flight instruments)
Electronic circuit design and testing (amplifiers, stepper motor control, infrared detector array interfacing, RS-232 programming etc.)
Project manager of NOMAD during manufacturing, calibration and science mission
Organisation and running of NOMAD team meetings and workshops + weekly calibration/science teleconferences
Post-Doctoral Supervisor of a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) project student (2011-2014)
Project Co-Supervisor of Masters’ students (2009-2010, 2011-2012)
Physics Lab Demonstrator, Oxford University (2008-2013)
Various outreach activities e.g. Stargazing Oxford, Brussels Planetarium, Euro Space Centre etc.
ESA Outstanding Achievement Award
NASA Group Achievement Awards
NASA Exceptional Achievement for Science Team Award
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Funded Research Grant
Leverhulme Trust Post-Doctoral Research Assistant Grant Co-I
STFC Postgraduate Studentship
Lincoln College Graduate Research Fund Award
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter NOMAD Co-Investigator
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter ACS Co-Investigator
LRO Diviner Lunar Radiometer Co-Investigator
EnVision VenSpec-H Deputy Project Manager
NASA OSIRIS-REx Mission Collaborator
Castalia Main Belt Comet Mission Team (proposed for ESA’s M4 mission call)
MarcoPolo-R Asteroid Thermal Mapping Spectrometer (proposed for ESA’s M3 mission call)
Europlanet Society Member
American Geophysical Union Member
Royal Astronomical Society Member
UK Planetary Forum Member
Institute of Physics Member
MITx 6.002: Circuits & Electronics. EdX online course from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
‘Building a Business’, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
English (Native)
Conversational French (B1-B2 of EU Framework)
Conversational Italian (A2+ EU Framework)
Peer-Reviewed Publication Record
1: Calibration of NOMAD on ESA′s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter: Part 1 – The Solar Occultation channel, Planetary and Space Science (2021), Ian R. Thomas and Shohei Aoki and Loïc Trompet and Séverine Robert and Cédric Depiesse and Yannick Willame and Justin T. Erwin and Ann Carine Vandaele and Frank Daerden and Arnaud Mahieux and Eddy Neefs and Bojan Ristic and Laszlo Hetey and Sophie Berkenbosch and Roland Clairquin and Bram Beeckman and Manish R. Patel and Jose Juan Lopez-Moreno and Giancarlo Bellucci
2: Calibration of NOMAD on ESA′s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter: Part 2 – The Limb, Nadir and Occultation (LNO) channel, Planetary and Space Science (2021), Ian R. Thomas and Shohei Aoki and Loïc Trompet and Séverine Robert and Cédric Depiesse and Yannick Willame and Guillaume Cruz-Mermy and Frédéric Schmidt and Justin T. Erwin and Ann Carine Vandaele and Frank Daerden and Arnaud Mahieux and Eddy Neefs and Bojan Ristic and Laszlo Hetey and Sophie Berkenbosch and Roland Clairquin and Bram Beeckman and Manish R. Patel and Jose Juan Lopez-Moreno and Giancarlo Bellucci
3: Calibration of NOMAD on ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter: Part 3 - LNO validation and instrument stability, Planetary and Space Science (2021), G. Cruz Mermy and F. Schmidt and I.R. Thomas and F. Daerden and B. Ristic and M.R. Patel and J.-J. Lopez-Moreno and G. Bellucci and A.C. Vandaele
4: First Detection and Thermal Characterization of Terminator CO 2 Ice Clouds With ExoMars/NOMAD, Geophysical Research Letters (2021), Giuliano Liuzzi and Geronimo L. Villanueva and Loïc Trompet and Matteo M. J. Crismani and Arianna Piccialli and Shohei Aoki and Miguel Angel Lopez-Valverde and Aurélien Stolzenbach and Frank Daerden and Lori Neary and Michael D. Smith and Manish R. Patel and Stephen R. Lewis and R. Todd Clancy and Ian R. Thomas and Bojan Ristic and Giancarlo Bellucci and Jose-Juan Lopez-Moreno and Ann Carine Vandaele
5: A Global and Seasonal Perspective of Martian Water Vapor From ExoMars/NOMAD, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (2021), M. M. J. Crismani and G. L. Villanueva and G. Liuzzi and M. D. Smith and E. W. Knutsen and F. Daerden and L. Neary and M. J. Mumma and S. Aoki and L. Trompet and I. R. Thomas and B. Ristic and G. Bellucci and A. Piccialli and S. Robert and A. Mahieux and J.-J. Lopez Moreno and G. Sindoni and M. Giuranna and M. R. Patel and A. C. Vandaele
6: ExoMars TGO/NOMAD-UVIS Vertical Profiles of Ozone: 1. Seasonal Variation and Comparison to Water, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (2021), M. R. Patel and G. Sellers and J. P. Mason and J. A. Holmes and M. A. J. Brown and S. R. Lewis and K. Rajendran and P. M. Streeter and C. Marriner and B. G. Hathi and D. J. Slade and M. R. Leese and M. J. Wolff and A. S. J. Khayat and M. D. Smith and S. Aoki and A. Piccialli and A. C. Vandaele and S. Robert and F. Daerden and I. R. Thomas and B. Ristic and Y. Willame and C. Depiesse and G. Bellucci and J.-J. Lopez-Moreno
7: ExoMars TGO/NOMAD-UVIS Vertical Profiles of Ozone: 2. The High-Altitude Layers of Atmospheric Ozone, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (2021), Alain S. J. Khayat and Michael D. Smith and Michael Wolff and Frank Daerden and Lori Neary and Manish R. Patel and Arianna Piccialli and Ann C. Vandaele and Ian Thomas and Bojan Ristic and Jon Mason and Yannick Willame and Cedric Depiesse and Giancarlo Bellucci and José Juan López-Moreno
8: Martian water loss to space enhanced by regional dust storms, Nature Astronomy (2021), M. S. Chaffin and D. M. Kass and S. Aoki and A. A. Fedorova and J. Deighan and K. Connour and N. G. Heavens and A. Kleinböhl and S. K. Jain and J.-Y. Chaufray and M. Mayyasi and J. T. Clarke and A. I. F. Stewart and J. S. Evans and M. H. Stevens and W. E. McClintock and M. M. J. Crismani and G. M. Holsclaw and F. Lefevre and D. Y. Lo and F. Montmessin and N. M. Schneider and B. Jakosky and G. Villanueva and G. Liuzzi and F. Daerden and I. R. Thomas and J.-J. Lopez-Moreno and M. R. Patel and G. Bellucci and B. Ristic and J. T. Erwin and A. C. Vandaele and A. Trokhimovskiy and O. I. Korablev
9: The climatology of carbon monoxide on Mars as observed by NOMAD nadir-geometry observations, Icarus (2021), Michael D. Smith and Frank Daerden and Lori Neary and Alain S.J. Khayat and James A. Holmes and Manish R. Patel and Geronimo Villanueva and Giuliano Liuzzi and Ian R. Thomas and Bojan Ristic and Giancarlo Bellucci and Jose Juan Lopez-Moreno and Ann Carine Vandaele
10: Annual Appearance of Hydrogen Chloride on Mars and a Striking Similarity With the Water Vapor Vertical Distribution Observed by TGO/NOMAD, Geophysical Research Letters (2021), S. Aoki and F. Daerden and S. Viscardy and I. R. Thomas and J. T. Erwin and S. Robert and L. Trompet and L. Neary and G. L. Villanueva and G. Liuzzi and M. M. J. Crismani and R. T. Clancy and J. Whiteway and F. Schmidt and M. A. Lopez-Valverde and B. Ristic and M. R. Patel and G. Bellucci and J.-J. Lopez-Moreno and K. S. Olsen and F. Lefèvre and F. Montmessin and A. Trokhimovskiy and A. A. Fedorova and O. Korablev and A. C. Vandaele
11: Probing the Atmospheric Cl Isotopic Ratio on Mars: Implications for Planetary Evolution and Atmospheric Chemistry, Geophysical Research Letters (2021), Giuliano Liuzzi and Geronimo L. Villanueva and Sebastien Viscardy and Daniel Mège and Matteo M. J. Crismani and Shohei Aoki and Joanna Gurgurewicz and Pierre-Antoine Tesson and Michael J. Mumma and Michael D. Smith and Sara Faggi and Vincent Kofman and Elise W. Knutsen and Frank Daerden and Lori Neary and Frédéric Schmidt and Loïc Trompet and Justin T. Erwin and Séverine Robert and Ian R. Thomas and Bojan Ristic and Giancarlo Bellucci and Jóse Juan Lopez-Moreno and Manish R. Patel and Ann Carine Vandaele
12: First Observation of the Oxygen 630~nm Emission in the Martian Dayglow, Geophysical Research Letters (2021), J.-C. Gérard and S. Aoki and L. Gkouvelis and L. Soret and Y. Willame and I. R. Thomas and C. Depiesse and B. Ristic and A. C. Vandaele and B. Hubert and F. Daerden and M. R. Patel and J.-J. López-Moreno and G. Bellucci and J. P. Mason and M. A. López-Valverde
13: Comprehensive investigation of Mars methane and organics with ExoMars/NOMAD, Icarus (2021), Elise W. Knutsen and Geronimo L. Villanueva and Giuliano Liuzzi and Matteo M.J. Crismani and Michael J. Mumma and Michael D. Smith and Ann Carine Vandaele and Shohei Aoki and Ian R. Thomas and Frank Daerden and Sébastien Viscardy and Justin T. Erwin and Loic Trompet and Lori Neary and Bojan Ristic and Miguel Angel Lopez-Valverde and Jose Juan Lopez-Moreno and Manish R. Patel and Ozgur Karatekin and Giancarlo Bellucci
14: Machine learning for automatic identification of new minor species, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (2021), Frédéric Schmidt and Guillaume Cruz Mermy and Justin Erwin and Séverine Robert and Lori Neary and Ian R. Thomas and Frank Daerden and Bojan Ristic and Manish R. Patel and Giancarlo Bellucci and Jose-Juan Lopez-Moreno and Ann-Carine Vandaele
15: Transient HCl in the atmosphere of Mars, Science Advances (2021), Korablev, O. and Olsen, K.S. and Trokhimovskiy, A. and Lefèvre, F. and Montmessin, F. and Fedorova, A.A. and Toplis, M.J. and Alday, J. and Belyaev, D.A. and Patrakeev, A. and Ignatiev, N.I. and Shakun, A.V. and Grigoriev, A.V. and Baggio, L. and Abdenour, I. and Lacombe, G. and Ivanov, Y.S. and Aoki, S. and Thomas, I.R. and Daerden, F. and Ristic, B. and Erwin, J.T. and Patel, M. and Bellucci, G. and Lopez-Moreno, J.-J. and Vandaele, A.C.
16: Water heavily fractionated as it ascends on Mars as revealed by ExoMars/NOMAD, Science Advances (2021), Villanueva, G.L. and Liuzzi, G. and Crismani, M.M.J. and Aoki, S. and Vandaele, A.C. and Daerden, F. and Smith, M.D. and Mumma, M.J. and Knutsen, E.W. and Neary, L. and Viscardy, S. and Thomas, I.R. and Lopez-Valverde, M.A. and Ristic, B. and Patel, M.R. and Holmes, J.A. and Bellucci, G. and Lopez-Moreno, J.J.
17: Detection of green line emission in the dayside atmosphere of Mars from NOMAD-TGO observations, Nature Astronomy (2020), J.-C. Gérard and S. Aoki and Y. Willame and L. Gkouvelis and C. Depiesse and I. R. Thomas and B. Ristic and A. C. Vandaele and F. Daerden and B. Hubert and J. Mason and M. R. Patel and J.-J. López-Moreno and G. Bellucci and M. A. López-Valverde and B. Beeckman
18: Explanation for the Increase in High-Altitude Water on Mars Observed by NOMAD During the 2018 Global Dust Storm, Geophysical Research Letters (2020), L. Neary and F. Daerden and S. Aoki and J. Whiteway and R. T. Clancy and M. Smith and S. Viscardy and J.T. Erwin and I. R. Thomas and G. Villanueva and G. Liuzzi and M. Crismani and M. Wolff and S. R. Lewis and J. A. Holmes and M. R. Patel and M. Giuranna and C. Depiesse and A. Piccialli and S. Robert and L. Trompet and Y. Willame and B. Ristic and A. C. Vandaele
19: Strong Variability of Martian Water Ice Clouds During Dust Storms Revealed From ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter/NOMAD, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (2020), Giuliano Liuzzi and Geronimo L. Villanueva and Matteo M.J. Crismani and Michael D. Smith and Michael J. Mumma and Frank Daerden and Shohei Aoki and Ann Carine Vandaele and R. Todd Clancy and Justin Erwin and Ian Thomas and Bojan Ristic and José-Juan Lopez-Moreno and Giancarlo Bellucci and Manish R. Patel
20: Development of a knowledge management system for the NOMAD instrument onboard the ExoMars TGO spacecraft, Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology (2019), Laszlo Hetey and Eddy Neefs and Ian Thomas and Joe Zender and Ann-Carine Vandaele and Sophie Berkenbosch and Bojan Ristic and Sabrina Bonnewijn and Sofie Delanoye and Mark Leese and Jon Mason and Manish Patel
21: Methane on Mars: New insights into the sensitivity of CH4 with the NOMAD/ExoMars spectrometer through its first in-flight calibration, Icarus (2019), Giuliano Liuzzi and Geronimo L. Villanueva and Michael J. Mumma and Michael D. Smith and Frank Daerden and Bojan Ristic and Ian Thomas and Ann Carine Vandaele and Manish R. Patel and José-Juan Lopez-Moreno and Giancarlo Bellucci
22: Martian dust storm impact on atmospheric H
23: No detection of methane on Mars from early ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter observations, Nature (2019), Korablev, O. and Vandaele, A.C. and Montmessin, F. and Fedorova, A.A. and Trokhimovskiy, A. and Forget, F. and Lefèvre, F. and Daerden, F. and Thomas, I.R. and Trompet, L. and Erwin, J.T. and Aoki, S. and Robert, S. and Neary, L. and Viscardy, S. and Grigoriev, A.V. and Ignatiev, N.I. and Shakun, A. and Patrakeev, A. and Belyaev, D.A. and Bertaux, J.-L. and Olsen, K.S. and Baggio, L. and Alday, J. and Ivanov, Y.S. and Ristic, B. and Mason, J. and Willame, Y. and Depiesse, C. and Hetey, L. and Berkenbosch, S. and Clairquin, R. and Queirolo, C. and Beeckman, B. and Neefs, E. and Patel, M.R. and Bellucci, G. and López-Moreno, J.-J. and Wilson, C.F. and Etiope, G. and Zelenyi, L. and Svedhem, H. and Vago, J.L. and Alonso-Rodrigo, G. and Altieri, F. and Anufreychik, K. and Arnold, G. and Bauduin, S. and Bolsée, D. and Carrozzo, G. and Clancy, R.T. and Cloutis, E. and Crismani, M. and Da Pieve, F. and D?Aversa, E. and Duxbury, N. and Encrenaz, T. and Fouchet, T. and Funke, B. and Fussen, D. and Garcia-Comas, M. and Gérard, J.-C. and Giuranna, M. and Gkouvelis, L. and Gonzalez-Galindo, F. and Grassi, D. and Guerlet, S. and Hartogh, P. and Holmes, J. and Hubert, B. and Kaminski, J. and Karatekin, O. and Kasaba, Y. and Kass, D. and Khatuntsev, I. and Kleinböhl, A. and Kokonkov, N. and Krasnopolsky, V. and Kuzmin, R. and Lacombe, G. and Lanciano, O. and Lellouch, E. and Lewis, S. and Luginin, M. and Liuzzi, G. and López-Puertas, M. and López-Valverde, M. and Määttänen, A. and Mahieux, A. and Marcq, E. and Martin-Torres, J. and Maslov, I. and Medvedev, A. and Millour, E. and Moshkin, B. and Mumma, M.J. and Nakagawa, H. and Novak, R.E. and Oliva, F. and Patsaev, D. and Piccialli, A. and Quantin-Nataf, C. and Renotte, E. and Ritter, B. and Rodin, A. and Schmidt, F. and Schneider, N. and Shematovich, V. and Smith, M.D. and Teanby, N.A. and Thiemann, E. and Thomas, N. and Vander Auwera, J. and Vazquez, L. and Villanueva, G. and Vincendon, M. and Whiteway, J. and Wilquet, V. and Wolff, M.J. and Wolkenberg, P. and Yelle, R. and Young, R. and Zasova, L. and Zorzano, M.P.
24: Martian dust storm impact on atmospheric H
25: No detection of methane on Mars from early ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter observations (Nature, (2019), 568, 7753, (517-520), 10.1038/s41586-019-1096-4), Nature (2019), Korablev, O. and Vandaele, A.C. and Montmessin, F. and Fedorova, A.A. and Trokhimovskiy, A. and Forget, F. and Lefèvre, F. and Daerden, F. and Thomas, I.R. and Trompet, L. and Erwin, J.T. and Aoki, S. and Robert, S. and Neary, L. and Viscardy, S. and Grigoriev, A.V. and Ignatiev, N.I. and Shakun, A. and Patrakeev, A. and Belyaev, D.A. and Bertaux, J.-L. and Olsen, K.S. and Baggio, L. and Alday, J. and Ivanov, Y.S. and Ristic, B. and Mason, J. and Willame, Y. and Depiesse, C. and Hetey, L. and Berkenbosch, S. and Clairquin, R. and Queirolo, C. and Beeckman, B. and Neefs, E. and Patel, M.R. and Bellucci, G. and López-Moreno, J.-J. and Wilson, C.F. and Etiope, G. and Zelenyi, L. and Svedhem, H. and Vago, J.L. and Alonso-Rodrigo, G. and Altieri, F. and Anufreychik, K. and Arnold, G. and Bauduin, S. and Bolsée, D. and Carrozzo, G. and Clancy, R.T. and Cloutis, E. and Crismani, M. and Da Pieve, F. and D?Aversa, E. and Duxbury, N. and Encrenaz, T. and Fouchet, T. and Funke, B. and Fussen, D. and Garcia-Comas, M. and Gérard, J.-C. and Giuranna, M. and Gkouvelis, L. and Gonzalez-Galindo, F. and Grassi, D. and Guerlet, S. and Hartogh, P. and Holmes, J. and Hubert, B. and Kaminski, J. and Karatekin, O. and Kasaba, Y. and Kass, D. and Khatuntsev, I. and Kleinböhl, A. and Kokonkov, N. and Krasnopolsky, V. and Kuzmin, R. and Lacombe, G. and Lanciano, O. and Lellouch, E. and Lewis, S. and Luginin, M. and Liuzzi, G. and López-Puertas, M. and López-Valverde, M. and Määttänen, A. and Mahieux, A. and Marcq, E. and Martin-Torres, J. and Maslov, I. and Medvedev, A. and Millour, E. and Moshkin, B. and Mumma, M.J. and Nakagawa, H. and Novak, R.E. and Oliva, F. and Patsaev, D. and Piccialli, A. and Quantin-Nataf, C. and Renotte, E. and Ritter, B. and Rodin, A. and Schmidt, F. and Schneider, N. and Shematovich, V. and Smith, M.D. and Teanby, N.A. and Thiemann, E. and Thomas, N. and Vander Auwera, J. and Vazquez, L. and Villanueva, G. and Vincendon, M. and Whiteway, J. and Wilquet, V. and Wolff, M.J. and Wolkenberg, P. and Yelle, R. and Young, R. and Zasova, L. and Zorzano, M.P.
26: The VenSpec suite on the ESA EnVision mission to Venus, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (2019), Helbert, J. and Vandaele, A.C. and Marcq, E. and Robert, S. and Ryan, C. and Guignan, G. and Rosas-Ortiz, Y. and Neefs, E. and Thomas, I.R. and Arnold, G. and Peter, G. and Widemann, T. and Lara, L.
27: Water Vapor Vertical Profiles on Mars in Dust Storms Observed by TGO/NOMAD, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (2019), Aoki, S. and Vandaele, A.C. and Daerden, F. and Villanueva, G.L. and Liuzzi, G. and Thomas, I.R. and Erwin, J.T. and Trompet, L. and Robert, S. and Neary, L. and Viscardy, S. and Clancy, R.T. and Smith, M.D. and Lopez-Valverde, M.A. and Hill, B. and Ristic, B. and Patel, M.R. and Bellucci, G. and Lopez-Moreno, J.-J. and López-Moreno, J.-J. and Alonso-Rodrigo, G. and Altieri, F. and Bauduin, S. and Bolsée, D. and Carrozzo, G. and Cloutis, E. and Crismani, M. and Da Pieve, F. and D?aversa, E. and Depiesse, C. and Etiope, G. and Fedorova, A.A. and Funke, B. and Fussen, D. and Garcia-Comas, M. and Geminale, A. and Gérard, J.-C. and Giuranna, M. and Gkouvelis, L. and Gonzalez-Galindo, F. and Holmes, J. and Hubert, B. and Ignatiev, N.I. and Kaminski, J. and Karatekin, O. and Kasaba, Y. and Kass, D. and Kleinböhl, A. and Lanciano, O. and Lefèvre, F. and Lewis, S. and López-Puertas, M. and López-Valverde, M. and Mahieux, A. and Mason, J. and Mege, D. and Mumma, M.J. and Nakagawa, H. and Neefs, E. and Novak, R.E. and Oliva, F. and Piccialli, A. and Renotte, E. and Ritter, B. and Schmidt, F. and Schneider, N. and Sindoni, G. and Teanby, N.A. and Thiemann, E. and Trokhimovskiy, A. and Auwera, J.V. and Whiteway, J. and Wilquet, V. and Willame, Y. and Wolff, M.J. and Wolkenberg, P. and Yelle, R. and Del Moral Beatriz, A. and Barzin, P. and Beeckman, B. and Benmoussa, A. and Berkenbosch, S. and Biondi, D. and Bonnewijn, S. and Candini, G.P. and Clairquin, R. and Cubas, J. and Giordanengo, B. and Gissot, S. and Gomez, A. and Hathi, B. and Jeronimo Zafra, J. and Leese, M. and Maes, J. and Mazy, E. and Mazzoli, A. and Meseguer, J. and Morales, R. and Orban, A. and Pastor-Morales, M. and Perez-Grande, I. and Queirolo, C. and Rodriguez Gomez, J. and Saggin, B. and Samain, V. and Sanz Andres, A. and Sanz, R. and Simar, J.-F. and Thibert, T.
28: CASTAway: An asteroid main belt tour and survey, Advances in Space Research (2018), Bowles, N.E. and Snodgrass, C. and Gibbings, A. and Sanchez, J.P. and Arnold, J.A. and Eccleston, P. and Andert, T. and Probst, A. and Naletto, G. and Vandaele, A.C. and de Leon, J. and Nathues, A. and Thomas, I.R. and Thomas, N. and Jorda, L. and Da Deppo, V. and Haack, H. and Green, S.F. and Carry, B. and Donaldson Hanna, K.L. and Leif Jorgensen, J. and Kereszturi, A. and DeMeo, F.E. and Patel, M.R. and Davies, J.K. and Clarke, F. and Kinch, K. and Guilbert-Lepoutre, A. and Agarwal, J. and Rivkin, A.S. and Pravec, P. and Fornasier, S. and Granvik, M. and Jones, R.H. and Murdoch, N. and Joy, K.H. and Pascale, E. and Tecza, M. and Barnes, J.M. and Licandro, J. and Greenhagen, B.T. and Calcutt, S.B. and Marriner, C.M. and Warren, T. and Tosh, I.
29: Description, accessibility and usage of SOIR/Venus Express atmospheric profiles of Venus distributed in VESPA (Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access), Planetary and Space Science (2018), Trompet, L. and Geunes, Y. and Ooms, T. and Mahieux, A. and Wilquet, V. and Chamberlain, S. and Robert, S. and Thomas, I.R. and Erard, S. and Cecconi, B. and Le Sidaner, P. and Vandaele, A.C.
30: Investigations of the Mars Upper Atmosphere with ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, Space Science Reviews (2018), López-Valverde, M.A. and Gerard, J.-C. and González-Galindo, F. and Vandaele, A.-C. and Thomas, I. and Korablev, O. and Ignatiev, N. and Fedorova, A. and Montmessin, F. and Määttänen, A. and Guilbon, S. and Lefevre, F. and Patel, M.R. and Jiménez-Monferrer, S. and García-Comas, M. and Cardesin, A. and Wilson, C.F. and Clancy, R.T. and Kleinböhl, A. and McCleese, D.J. and Kass, D.M. and Schneider, N.M. and Chaffin, M.S. and López-Moreno, J.J. and Rodr\ǵuez, J.
31: NOMAD, an Integrated Suite of Three Spectrometers for the ExoMars Trace Gas Mission: Technical Description, Science Objectives and Expected Performance, Space Science Reviews (2018), Vandaele, A.C. and Lopez-Moreno, J.-J. and Patel, M.R. and Bellucci, G. and Daerden, F. and Ristic, B. and Robert, S. and Thomas, I.R. and Wilquet, V. and Allen, M. and Alonso-Rodrigo, G. and Altieri, F. and Aoki, S. and Bolsée, D. and Clancy, T. and Cloutis, E. and Depiesse, C. and Drummond, R. and Fedorova, A. and Formisano, V. and Funke, B. and González-Galindo, F. and Geminale, A. and Gérard, J.-C. and Giuranna, M. and Hetey, L. and Ignatiev, N. and Kaminski, J. and Karatekin, O. and Kasaba, Y. and Leese, M. and Lefèvre, F. and Lewis, S.R. and López-Puertas, M. and López-Valverde, M. and Mahieux, A. and Mason, J. and McConnell, J. and Mumma, M. and Neary, L. and Neefs, E. and Renotte, E. and Rodriguez-Gomez, J. and Sindoni, G. and Smith, M. and Stiepen, A. and Trokhimovsky, A. and Vander Auwera, J. and Villanueva, G. and Viscardy, S. and Whiteway, J. and Willame, Y. and Wolff, M. and Patel, M. and D?aversa, E. and Fussen, D. and Garcia-Comas, M. and Gonzalez-Galindo, F. and Hewson, W. and McConnel, J. and Novak, R. and Oliva, F. and Piccialli, A. and Aparicio Del Moral, B. and Barzin, P. and Benmoussa, A. and Berkenbosch, S. and Biondi, D. and Bonnewijn, S. and Candini, G.P. and Clairquin, R. and Cubas, J. and De-Lanoye, S. and Giordanengo, B. and Gissot, S. and Gomez, A. and Maes, J. and Mazy, E. and Mazzoli, A. and Meseguer, J. and Morales, R. and Orban, A. and Pastor-Morales, M.C. and Perez-Grande, I. and Queirolo, C. and Saggin, B. and Samain, V. and Sanz Andres, A. and Sanz, R. and Simar, J.-F. and Thibert, T. and Zafra, J.J.
32: The Atmospheric Chemistry Suite (ACS) of Three Spectrometers for the ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter, Space Science Reviews (2018), Korablev, O. and Montmessin, F. and Trokhimovskiy, A. and Fedorova, A.A. and Shakun, A.V. and Grigoriev, A.V. and Moshkin, B.E. and Ignatiev, N.I. and Forget, F. and Lefèvre, F. and Anufreychik, K. and Dzuban, I. and Ivanov, Y.S. and Kalinnikov, Y.K. and Kozlova, T.O. and Kungurov, A. and Makarov, V. and Martynovich, F. and Maslov, I. and Merzlyakov, D. and Moiseev, P.P. and Nikolskiy, Y. and Patrakeev, A. and Patsaev, D. and Santos-Skripko, A. and Sazonov, O. and Semena, N. and Semenov, A. and Shashkin, V. and Sidorov, A. and Stepanov, A.V. and Stupin, I. and Timonin, D. and Titov, A.Y. and Viktorov, A. and Zharkov, A. and Altieri, F. and Arnold, G. and Belyaev, D.A. and Bertaux, J.L. and Betsis, D.S. and Duxbury, N. and Encrenaz, T. and Fouchet, T. and Gérard, J.-C. and Grassi, D. and Guerlet, S. and Hartogh, P. and Kasaba, Y. and Khatuntsev, I. and Krasnopolsky, V.A. and Kuzmin, R.O. and Lellouch, E. and Lopez-Valverde, M.A. and Luginin, M. and Määttänen, A. and Marcq, E. and Martin Torres, J. and Medvedev, A.S. and Millour, E. and Olsen, K.S. and Patel, M.R. and Quantin-Nataf, C. and Rodin, A.V. and Shematovich, V.I. and Thomas, I. and Thomas, N. and Vazquez, L. and Vincendon, M. and Wilquet, V. and Wilson, C.F. and Zasova, L.V. and Zelenyi, L.M. and Zorzano, M.P.
33: The Oxford space environment goniometer: A new experimental setup for making directional emissivity measurements under a simulated space environment, Review of Scientific Instruments (2017), T. J. Warren and N. E. Bowles and K. Donaldson Hanna and I. R. Thomas
34: NOMAD spectrometer on the ExoMars trace gas orbiter mission: Part 2-design, manufacturing, and testing of the ultraviolet and visible channel, Applied Optics (2017), Patel, M.R. and Antoine, P. and Mason, J. and Leese, M. and Hathi, B. and Stevens, A.H. and Dawson, D. and Gow, J. and Ringrose, T. and Holmes, J. and Lewis, S.R. and Beghuin, D. and Van Donink, P. and Ligot, R. and Dewandel, J.-L. and Hu, D. and Bates, D. and Cole, R. and Drummond, R. and Thomas, I.R. and Depiesse, C. and Neefs, E. and Equeter, E. and Ristic, B. and Berkenbosch, S. and Bols?E, D. and Willame, Y. and Vandaele, A.C. and Lesschaeve, S. and De Vos, L. and Van Vooren, N. and Thibert, T. and Mazy, E. and Rodriguez-Gomez, J. and Morales, R. and Candini, G.P. and Carmen Pastor-Morales, M. and Sanz, R. and Del Moral, B.A. and Jeronimo-Zafra, J.-M. and G?Mez-L?Pez, J.M. and Alonso-Rodrigo, G. and P?Rez-Grande, I. and Cubas, J. and Gomez-Sanjuan, A.M. and Navarro-Medina, F. and Benmoussa, A. and Giordanengo, B. and Gissot, S. and Bellucci, G. and Lopez-Moreno, J.J.
35: Expected performances of the NOMAD/ExoMars instrument, Planetary and Space Science (2016), S. Robert and A.C. Vandaele and I. Thomas and Y. Willame and F. Daerden and S. Delanoye and C. Depiesse and R. Drummond and E. Neefs and L. Neary and B. Ristic and J. Mason and J.-J. Lopez-Moreno and J. Rodriguez-Gomez and M.R. Patel and G. Bellucci
36: Carbon monoxide observed in Venus′ atmosphere with SOIR/VEx, Icarus (2016), Vandaele, A.C. and Mahieux, A. and Chamberlain, S. and Ristic, B. and Robert, S. and Thomas, I.R. and Trompet, L. and Wilquet, V. and Bertaux, J.L.
37: Constraints on olivine-rich rock types on the Moon as observed by Diviner and M3: Implications for the formation of the lunar crust, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (2016), Arnold, J.A. and Glotch, T.D. and Lucey, P.G. and Song, E. and Thomas, I.R. and Bowles, N.E. and Greenhagen, B.T.
38: Contribution from SOIR/VEX to the updated Venus International Reference Atmosphere (VIRA), Advances in Space Research (2016), Vandaele, A.C. and Chamberlain, S. and Mahieux, A. and Ristic, B. and Robert, S. and Thomas, I. and Trompet, L. and Wilquet, V. and Belyaev, D. and Fedorova, A. and Korablev, O. and Bertaux, J.L.
39: Improved algorithm for the transmittance estimation of spectra obtained with SOIR/Venus Express, Applied Optics (2016), Trompet, L. and Mahieux, A. and Ristic, B. and Robert, S. and Wilquet, V. and Thomas, I.R. and Vandaele, A.C. and Bertaux, J.-L.
40: Optical and radiometric models of the NOMAD instrument Part II: The infrared channels - SO and LNO, Optics Express (2016), Thomas, I.R. and Vandaele, A.C. and Robert, S. and Neefs, E. and Drummond, R. and Daerden, F. and Delanoye, S. and Ristic, B. and Berkenbosch, S. and Clairquin, R. and Maes, J. and Bonnewijn, S. and Depiesse, C. and Mahieux, A. and Trompet, L. and Neary, L. and Willame, Y. and Wilquet, V. and Nevejans, D. and Aballea, L. and Moelans, W. and De Vos, L. and Lesschaeve, S. and Van Vooren, N. and Lopez-Moreno, J.-J. and Patel, M.R. and Bellucci, G. and Allen, M. and Altieri, F. and Aoki, S. and Bolsée, D. and Clancy, T. and Cloutis, E. and Fedorova, A. and Formisano, V. and Funke, B. and Fussen, D. and Garcia-Comas, M. and Geminale, A. and Gérard, J.-C. and Gillotay, D. and Giuranna, M. and Gonzalez-Galindo, F. and Ignatiev, N. and Kaminski, J. and Karatekin, O. and Kasaba, Y. and Lefèvre, F. and Lewis, S. and López-Puertas, M. and López-Valverde, M. and Mason, J. and McConnell, J. and Mumma, M. and Novak, R. and Renotte, E. and Sindoni, G. and Smith, M. and Trokhimovsky, S. and Vander Auwera, J. and Villanueva, G. and Whiteway, J. and Wolff, M. and Alonso-Rodrigo, G. and Aparicio Del Moral, B. and Barzin, P. and BenMoussa, A. and Biondi, D. and Candini, G.P. and Cubas, J. and Giordanengo, B. and Gissot, S. and Gomez, A. and Zafra, J.-J. and Leese, M. and Mazy, E. and Mazzoli, A. and Meseguer, J. and Morales, R. and Orban, A. and Pastor-Morales, M.D.C. and Perez-Grande, I. and Rodriguez-Gomez, J. and Saggin, B. and Samain, V. and Sanz Andres, A. and Sanz, R. and Simar, J.-F. and Thibert, T.
41: SINBAD flight software, the on-board software of NOMAD in ExoMars 2016, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (2016), Pastor-Morales, M.C. and Rodríguez-Gómez, J.F. and Morales-Muñoz, R. and Gómez-López, J.M. and Aparicio-Del-Moral, B. and Candini, G.P. and Jerónimo-Zafra, J.M. and López-Moreno, J.J. and Robles-Muñoz, N.F. and Sanz-Mesa, R. and Neefs, E. and Vandaele, A.C. and Drummond, R. and Thomas, I.R. and Berkenbosch, S. and Clairquin, R. and Delanoye, S. and Ristic, B. and Maes, J. and Bonnewijn, S. and Patel, M.R. and Leese, M. and Mason, J.P.
42: NOMAD spectrometer on the ExoMars trace gas orbiter mission: Part 1 - design, manufacturing and testing of the infrared channels, Applied Optics (2015), Neefs, E. and Vandaele, A.C. and Drummond, R. and Thomas, I.R. and Berkenbosch, S. and Clairquin, R. and Delanoye, S. and Ristic, B. and Maes, J. and Bonnewijn, S. and Pieck, G. and Equeter, E. and Depiesse, C. and Daerden, F. and Van Ransbeeck, E. and Nevejans, D. and Rodriguez-Gómez, J. and López-Moreno, J.-J. and Sanz, R. and Morales, R. and Candini, G.P. and Pastor-Morales, M.C. and Del Moral, B.A. and Jeronimo-Zafra, J.-M. and Gómez-López, J.M. and Alonso-Rodrigo, G. and Pérez-Grande, I. and Cubas, J. and Gomez-Sanjuan, A.M. and Navarro-Medina, F. and Thibert, T. and Patel, M.R. and Bellucci, G. and De Vos, L. and Lesschaeve, S. and Van Vooren, N. and Moelans, W. and Aballea, L. and Glorieux, S. and Baeke, A. and Kendall, D. and De Neef, J. and Soenen, A. and Puech, P.-Y. and Ward, J. and Jamoye, J.-F. and Diez, D. and Vicario-Arroyo, A. and Jankowski, M.
43: Optical and radiometric models of the NOMAD instrument Part I: The UVIS channel, Optics Express (2015), Vandaele, A.C. and Willame, Y. and Depiesse, C. and Thomas, I.R. and Robert, S. and Bolsée, D. and Patel, M.R. and Mason, J.P. and Leese, M. and Lesschaeve, S. and Antoine, P. and Daerden, F. and Delanoye, S. and Drummond, R. and Neefs, E. and Ristic, B. and Lopez-Moreno, J.-J. and Bellucci, G. and Allen, M. and Altieri, F. and Aoki, S. and Clancy, T. and Cloutis, E. and Fedorova, A. and Formisano, V. and Funke, B. and Fussen, D. and Garcia-Comas, M. and Geminale, A. and Gérard, J.-C. and Gillotay, D. and Giuranna, M. and Gonzalez-Galindo, F. and Ignatiev, N. and Kaminski, J. and Karatekin, O. and Kasaba, Y. and Lefèvre, F. and Lewis, S. and López-Puertas, M. and López-Valverde, M. and Mahieux, A. and Mumma, M. and Neary, L. and Novak, R. and Renotte, E. and Sindoni, G. and Smith, M. and Trokhimovskiy, A. and Vander Auwera, J. and Villanueva, G. and Viscardy, S. and Whiteway, J. and Wilquet, V. and Wolff, M. and Alonso-Rodrigo, G. and Aparicio Del Moral, B. and Barzin, P. and BenMoussa, A. and Berkenbosch, S. and Biondi, D. and Bonnewijn, S. and Candini, G. and Clairquin, R. and Cubas, J. and Giordanengo, B. and Gissot, S. and Gomez, A. and Zafra, J.-J. and Maes, J. and Mazy, E. and Mazzoli, A. and Meseguer, J. and Morales, R. and Orban, A. and Pastor-Morales, M. and Perez-Grande, I. and Rodriguez-Gomez, J. and Saggin, B. and Samain, V. and Sanz Andres, A. and Sanz, R. and Simar, J.-F. and Thibert, T.
44: Science objectives and performances of NOMAD, a spectrometer suite for the ExoMars TGO mission, Planetary and Space Science (2015), Vandaele, A.C. and Neefs, E. and Drummond, R. and Thomas, I.R. and Daerden, F. and Lopez-Moreno, J.J. and Rodriguez, J. and Patel, M.R. and Bellucci, G. and Allen, M. and Altieri, F. and Bolsée, D. and Clancy, T. and Delanoye, S. and Depiesse, C. and Cloutis, E. and Fedorova, A. and Formisano, V. and Funke, B. and Fussen, D. and Geminale, A. and Gérard, J.-C. and Giuranna, M. and Ignatiev, N. and Kaminski, J. and Karatekin, O. and Lefèvre, F. and López-Puertas, M. and López-Valverde, M. and Mahieux, A. and McConnell, J. and Mumma, M. and Neary, L. and Renotte, E. and Ristic, B. and Robert, S. and Smith, M. and Trokhimovsky, S. and Vanderauwera, J. and Villanueva, G. and Whiteway, J. and Wilquet, V. and Wolff, M. and Aoki, S. and Garcia-Comas, M. and Gillotay, D. and Gonzalez-Galindo, F. and Kasabe, Y. and Lewis, S. and Mason, J. and Sindoni, G. and Willame, Y. and Alonso-Rodrigo, G. and Aparicio Del Moral, B. and Barzin, P. and Ben Moussa, A. and Berkenbosch, S. and Biondi, D. and Bonnewijn, S. and Candini, G.P. and Clairquin, R. and Cubas, J. and Giordanengo, B. and Gissot, S. and Gomez, A. and Zafra, J.-J. and Leese, M. and Maes, J. and Mazy, E. and Mazzoli, A. and Meseguer, J. and Morales, R. and Orban, A. and Pastor-Morales, M.D.C. and Perez-Grande, I. and Rodriguez-Gomez, J. and Saggin, B. and Samain, V. and Sanz Andres, A. and Sanz, R. and Simar, J.-F. and Thibert, T.
45: Global assessment of pure crystalline plagioclase across the Moon and implications for the evolution of the primary crust, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (2014), K. L. Donaldson Hanna and L. C. Cheek and C. M. Pieters and J. F. Mustard and B. T. Greenhagen and I. R. Thomas and N. E. Bowles
46: A new experimental setup for making thermal emission measurements in a simulated lunar environment, Review of Scientific Instruments (2012), Thomas, I. R. and Greenhagen, B. T. and Bowles, N. E. and Donaldson Hanna, K. L. and Temple, J. and Calcutt, S. B.
47: Laboratory emissivity measurements of the plagioclase solid solution series under varying environmental conditions, Journal of Geophysical Research E: Planets (2012), Donaldson Hanna, K.L. and Thomas, I.R. and Bowles, N.E. and Greenhagen, B.T. and Pieters, C.M. and Mustard, J.F. and Jackson, C.R.M. and Wyatt, M.B.
48: Thermal infrared emissivity measurements under a simulated lunar environment: Application to the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, Journal of Geophysical Research E: Planets (2012), Donaldson Hanna, K.L. and Wyatt, M.B. and Thomas, I.R. and Bowles, N.E. and Greenhagen, B.T. and Maturilli, A. and Helbert, J. and Paige, D.A.
49: Lunar regolith thermal gradients and emission spectra: Modeling and validation, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (2011), Millán, L. and Thomas, I. and Bowles, N.
50: Global Silicate Mineralogy of the Moon from the Diviner Lunar Radiometer, Science (2010), B. T. Greenhagen and P. G. Lucey and M. B. Wyatt and T. D. Glotch and C. C. Allen and J. A. Arnold and J. L. Bandfield and N. E. Bowles and K. L. D. Hanna and P. O. Hayne and E. Song and I. R. Thomas and D. A. Paige
51: Highly Silicic Compositions on the Moon, Science (2010), T. D. Glotch and P. G. Lucey and J. L. Bandfield and B. T. Greenhagen and I. R. Thomas and R. C. Elphic and N. Bowles and M. B. Wyatt and C. C. Allen and K. D. Hanna and D. A. Paige
52: The lunar reconnaissance orbiter diviner lunar radiometer experiment, Space Science Reviews (2010), Paige, D.A. and Foote, M.C. and Greenhagen, B.T. and Schofield, J.T. and Calcutt, S. and Vasavada, A.R. and Preston, D.J. and Taylor, F.W. and Allen, C.C. and Snook, K.J. and Jakosky, B.M. and Murray, B.C. and Soderblom, L.A. and Jau, B. and Loring, S. and Bulharowski, J. and Bowles, N.E. and Thomas, I.R. and Sullivan, M.T. and Avis, C. and De Jong, E.M. and Hartford, W. and McCleese, D.J.
The NOMAD team at ASI near Rome
Setting up for calibration of NOMAD at CSL, Liege
FTIR spectroscopy in the lab
Sample preparation for emission spectroscopy
CAD of an environmental chamber
Emission spectroscopy chamber
Sample preparation for reflectance spectroscopy
FLIR image of a heated reference disk
Filter transmission measurements with a custom setup
IR detector characterisation
Raspberry Pi 8 digit counter
A place to test out new website projects
A tool for selecting and downloading NOMAD HDF5 data, written in Python/Django (note: downloads require a valid NOMAD team email address)
Displays the real-time location of TGO orbiting Mars. Written in Python/Flask with a call to the ESA WebGeoCalc API and plotted with Vega-Lite
Lists all nadir and solar occultation observations made by NOMAD on ExoMars TGO. Data is extracted from an SQLite3 database generated by the observation planning software
Monitoring tool, showing how often each diffraction order has been measured by the NOMAD SO channel
A clickable viewer for checking all available SO and LNO observations that can be run with the current onboard COP tables
Search the Scopus database for scientific articles that may be of interest to the NOMAD team
A tool for tracing files as they pass through the NOMAD data pipeline. Under construction
A tool for viewing and plotting the contents of a NOMAD HDF5 observation file. Under construction
Contact Me
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