BONFOND Bertrand
Professeur associé
Chercheur qualifié FNRS & Fonds assoc.
Faculté des Sciences
Département d'astrophysique, géophysique et océanographie (AGO)
Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)
Faculté des Sciences
Département d'astrophysique, géophysique et océanographie (AGO)
Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR)
- ULiège address
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Bât. B5C Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)
Quartier Agora
allée du six Août 19c
4000 Liège 1
Belgique
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- B5c 0/2
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- Conseil sectoriel à la recherche et à la valorisation
- Sciences et Techniques
- Personal website (s)
- Juno révèle l'exquise finesse des aurores de Jupiter
- Personal website (s)
- L'ULg analyse la magnétosphère et les aurores de Jupiter
- Personal website (s)
- Aurores dans une bouteille- Daily Science
- Personal website (s)
- Aurores de Jupiter décortiquées - Daily Science
- Personal website (s)
- Surprise autour des aurores polaires de Jupiter
- Personal website (s)
- Spotlight on Jupiter's aurorae
- University degrees
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2009 : Docteur en Sciences (Université de Liège)
2007 : DEA en Sciences (Université de Liège)
2005 : Ingénieur civil physicien (Université de Liège)
Biography
After being awarded an Engineering Physics degree from the University of Liege in 2005, Bertrand Bonfond began a DEA in astrophysics and geophysics with a view to commencing a doctoral thesis in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics of the University of Liege (LPAP). His DEA thesis, which he defended in 2007, focussed on the observation of Jupiter's aurorae with the Hubble telescope. He fine-tuned this research during a doctoral thesis which he defended in 2009, in which he focussed particularly on the auroral imprint of the moon Io.
During the following year, Bertrand Bonfond went to the University of California in Los Angeles where he worked on the data gathered by the space probe Galileo. After returning to Liege briefly, he left for another year, this time to the Southwest research Institute in Colorado. He developed tools for optimizing future observations of the Juno space probe by drawing maps of different objects attainable in accordance with the different phases of the mission and by simulating future missions as realistically as possible.
In 2013, he came back to ULg, as a postdoctoral researcher at the FNRS. He then obtained a FNRS Research Associate position. As a member of the Juno mission, he dedicates him work to the poorly known regions of the Jovian aurorae and to the understanding of the underlying mechanisms giving rise to those aurorae.
Research field
- Système solaire
- Aurores et atmosphères polaires
- Sciences de l'espace
- Télédétection
Duties or mandates
- Chercheur Qualifié FNRS - FNRS Research Associate
- Secrétaire du Département d'Astrophysique, Géophysique et Océanographie
- Deputy director of the Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Unit
Scientific distinctions
- Planetary and Solar System Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist Award - EGU (2015)
- Prix Baron Nicolet - Académie royale de Belgique (2014)
- Group Achievement Award to Juno Earth Flyby Operations Team - NASA (2014)
- Prix des Amis de L'Université - ULg (2011)
ULiège Course
Planetary magnetospheres and aurorae, 20h Th, 10h Pr, BONFOND Bertrand, GRODENT Denis
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