Mentorship & Advisory

Supervision

current & past supervision

Post-doctoral fellows

  1. Timothée Vène — PCS wavefront control strategy
  2. Charlotte Bond — Wavefront sensing and reconstruction papers
  3. Olivier Beltramo-Martin (formerly Olivier Martin) — PSF reconstruction papers
  4. Yoshito Ono — Advanced tomography concepts papers
  5. Mikhail Konnik — Control of tomographic AO systems papers

PhD students

  1. Miguel Miranda Santos — Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning for High-Dimensional Real-Time Control: Application to Extreme Adaptive Optics · 2026–2029 papers
  2. Luís Silva Sousa — Event-based vision for real-time space object detection and tracking with deep learning · 2025–2028 papers
  3. Nuno Morujão (co-supervised with Paulo Garcia) — Applications of Adaptive Optics Telemetry for Long Baseline Interferometry · 2023–2027 papers
  4. Maxime Dumont (co-supervised with J.F. Sauvage and J. Cardoso) — Deep Learning pour le phasage de télescope segmenté · 2021–2024 thesis papers
  5. Kate Jackson (co-supervised with Colin Bradley) — Dynamic Tomographic Algorithms for Multi-Object Adaptive Optics: increasing sky-coverage for Raven · 2011–2015 thesis papers

MSc students

  1. Miguel Miranda Santos — Assessing Reinforcement Learning in XAO Control for PCS · Sep 2025–Jul 2026
  2. Ana Margarida Freitas — Auto-tuned, data-driven predictive controller for satellite-to-ground Free Space Optics Communication Systems · Jan–Sep 2025 thesis
  3. Ana Rita Oliveira — Dashboards for Space Missions Ground Segment · Jan–Jul 2025 thesis
  4. José Chaves — Assessing the photometric and astrometric capabilities of the ELT METIS imager on the Centre of the Milky Way · Sep 2024–Jul 2025
  5. Rafael Salgueiro — Near Infra-Red Focal Plane Wavefront Sensing · Sep 2023–Jul 2024. Later: PhD at LAM & Macquarie University thesis
  6. João Aveiro — Assessing the photometric and astrometric capabilities of the ELT METIS imager on the Centre of the Milky Way · Sep 2022–Sep 2023. Later: SW developer at Ethiack thesis
  7. Nuno Morujão — Adaptive Optics Telemetry: Estimation of turbulence parameters · Sep 2021–Oct 2022. Later: PhD at FEUP/CENTRA thesis
  8. Joel Teixeira — Real-time reconstruction in the spatial frequency domain · Sep 2013–Oct 2014. Funded by PHARAOH. Later: PhD at ONERA thesis

Internships (supervision and co-supervision)

  1. Christian Geyer — Adaptation of the AOT telemetry standard to Papyrus data · Jan–May 2024
  2. François Leroux — Papyrus @ OHP error budget · Mar–Aug 2023
  3. Yannick Abautret — Calibration of the pyramid modulation system on the LOOPS optical bench · Apr–Sep 2017
  4. Mathews George — Interfaces with the LOOPS experiment · Jul–Aug 2016
  5. Catarina Lourenço, Francisco Nascimento, Paulo Maia — Statistical analysis of post-processed on-sky Raven AO telemetry · Nov 2014–Jan 2015
  6. Abel Nicolau — Parallelization of the average gradient in Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing · Nov 2014–Jan 2015
  7. FEUP internship — Electricidade e Electromagnetismo · 2015
  8. Joel Teixeira — Large-scale wave-front reconstruction for exo-planetary Astronomical Adaptive Optics systems · PEEC, 04/2013–09/2013
  9. Olivier Herscovici — Super-sensitive wave-front sensing with the pyramid sensor · ISAE Toulouse, 09/2013–11/2013
  10. Marisa Reis — Reconstrução tomográfica de frente-de-onda em sistemas de óptica adaptativa para astronomia · PEEC, 04/2013–09/2013
  11. Allen Waddle — Highly parallelizable tomographic algorithms using graphical processing units · Herzberg / UVic BSc, Jul–Dec 2011
  12. Jeffrey Goodwill — The multi-conjugate adaptive-optics bench · Herzberg / UVic BSc, May–Sep 2011

mentoring

Masen Lamb — Calibration of Adaptive Optics systems with Phase-Diversity Algorithms. Exchange PhD student (4 months), MITACS awardee (later Post-doc at Dunlap Institute). →

panel member

outreach

Over the years I’ve spent some time reaching out to a larger audience. Here’s a snapshot…

Space Guardians

Improving astronomy literacy of children at pre-school education to raise their interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. spaceguardians.eu

ESERO Portugal

Action: “O espaço vai à escola” (Space gets into the classroom). Presentation of short films, talk: “The spectacles of the telescopes?”

Superphoton et le jeu de l’OA · Paris 2008

6-minute documentary on the principle of astronomical adaptive optics and coronography for the detection of extra-solar planets. Prize: Doc’Up Coup de coeur.

Panique à Vera Cruz · Paris 2009

6-minute documentary on the optical propagation through the atmosphere. Prize: Doc’Up Prix du Jury.