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PhD Student

University of Bern

Investigating THz TDS spectroscopy for in-situ comet measurements.

• Astrophysics
• Instrumentation
• THz-spectroscopy

Organization Committee Junior Research Association (JURA)

University of Bern

JURA is a conference for junior researcher funded by planetS.

Outreach

University of Bern

Contributed to various outreach events (guided tours) at the University of Bern.

President

Fachverein Physik Universität Zürich (FPU)

Students association for physics students at the University of Zurich.

Recovery Electronics and Structures Engineer

Akademische Raumfahrt Initiative Schweiz (ARIS)

Worked on the electronics and structures of a supersonic rocket named EULER. ARIS is a students association focusing on building rockets, based at ETH Zürich.

• EuRoC 2020 Technical Excellence Award

Treasurer

Fachverein Physik Universität Zürich (FPU)

Students association for physics students at the University of Zurich.

PhD

University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Physics with special qualification in astronomy

Master of Science

University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Applied Physics

Bachelor of Science

University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Physics, Minor in Computational Science

The Comet Interceptor Mission

Springer

Here we describe the novel, multi-point Comet Interceptor mission. It is dedicated to the exploration of a little-processed long-period comet, possibly entering the inner Solar System for the first time, or to encounter an interstellar object originating at another star. The objectives of the mission are to address the following questions: What are the surface composition, shape, morphology, and structure of the target object? What is the composition of the gas and dust in the coma, its connection to the nucleus, and the nature of its interaction with the solar wind? The mission was proposed to the European Space Agency in 2018, and formally adopted by the agency in June 2022, for launch in 2029 together with the Ariel mission. Comet Interceptor will take advantage of the opportunity presented by ESA’s F-Class call for fast, flexible, low-cost missions to which it was proposed. The call required a launch to a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 point. The mission can take advantage of this placement to wait for the discovery of a suitable comet reachable with its minimum V capability of . Comet Interceptor will be unique in encountering and studying, at a nominal closest approach distance of 1000 km, a comet that represents a near-pristine sample of material from the formation of the Solar System. It will also add a capability that no previous cometary mission has had, which is to deploy two sub-probes – B1, provided by the Japanese space agency, JAXA, and B2 – that will follow different trajectories through the coma. While the main probe passes at a nominal 1000 km distance, probes B1 and B2 will follow different chords through the coma at distances of 850 km and 400 km, respectively. The result will be unique, simultaneous, spatially resolved information of the 3-dimensional properties of the target comet and its interaction with the space environment. We present the mission’s science background leading to these objectives, as well as an overview of the scientific instruments, mission design, and schedule.

EULER

Building a supersonic rocket as a student team. Received the Technical Excellence Award award the the European Rocketry Challenge 2020 (EuRoC).

• Engineering

TEMPus VoLA

I joined the project before their third flight campaign on board the zero-G Airbus 310 from Novespace in Bordeaux. I helped with the mechanical and electrical tests of the system and was given the amazing opportunity to help operate the experiment on two flights with 31 parabolas each.

• Astrophysics
• Engineering