The ECHOES team is building expertise in coronagraphic instrumentation and exoplanet detection, with positions filled during the full duration of the project (2026-2030). The ECHOES team collaborates with the SPHERE+ consortium and leverages the infrastructure of the Very Large Telescope (VLT).
Expert in high-contrast imaging and exoplanet and debris disk detection. Currently working at Laboratoire d'instrumentation et de recherche en astrophysique (LIRA) at Paris Observatory - PSL.
Machine learning expert in image processing and trustworthy AI. Currently working at ONERA/DTIS (Information Processing and Systems Department).
Expert in instrumentation for high-contrast imaging at LIRA. He is in charge of a the THD2 bench, a unique experimental platform in Europe at the core of the ECHOES project.
Expert in exoplanet and circumstellar disks (debris and protoplanetary) imaging at LIRA. He is the Principal Investigator for the SPHERE+ project, at the core of ECHOES.
Specialist in optical instrumentation and imaging of exoplanets at LIRA.
Specialist of data processing algorithms to detect and characterize space objects using electromagnetic signals. Currently working at ONERA/DTIS.
Specialized in optical design, Eitan is contributing to the development of the THD2 optical testbed.
Specialized in coronagraph design, wavefront sensing and control algorithms, and advanced data processing methods for exoplanet detection at LIRA.
This could be you. Please contact the PI if you are interested in coronagraphic research.
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (French: Centre national de recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest public research body in Europe and the second largest research organisation in the world. CNRS is the host institution for the ECHOES project.
The Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), is the French national aerospace research center. Alongside their core mission in aerospace and defense research, ONERA research scientists have also pionneered many advances in astronomical instrumentation such as adaptive optics. ONERA is a partner institution for the ECHOES project.
The Laboratory for Instrumentation and Research in Astrophysics (LIRA) is a CNRS joint research unit at Paris Observatory - PSL. With a long history of innovation, LIRA contributes significantly to the advancement of astronomical techniques and technologies, in particular in high-contrast imaging. LIRA will host the experimental validations as well as the majority of the research team of the ECHOES project.