Prof. Bruno Maffei

I have worked in the field of Radio to Sub-millimetre wave astronomical instrumentation since 1990, when I started my PhD at the IAS-Orsay, France. After a short stay at CalTech and IPAC in Pasadena, I have then worked for 21 years in the UK, contributing to the development of several astronomical instruments. I have notably worked on the Planck and Herschel space missions.
Since 2016, I am working on several R&D programmes on cryogenics, optics and detector testing, leading an instrumentation group within the Cosmology team at the IAS, Paris-Saclay University, to support developments for CMB and far-infrared Astronomy. I am currently involved in the future LiteBIRD CMB space mission as well as leading the future BISOU balloon-borne project dedicated to the measure of the CMB spectral distortions.