Bertrand Thomas

Bertrand Thomas received the M.Sc. degree in radio-communication and microwave engineering from ESIEE-Paris, Noisy-le-Grand, France, and Université Marne-la-Vallée, Noisy-Champs, France, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in astrophysics and space instrumentation from Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris-VI, France and Observatoire de Paris, France, in 2004.

From 1999 to 2001, he was a Civil Servant in the Receiver Group, IRAM 30-m radio-telescope, Granada, Spain. From 2005 to 2008, he was a Research Engineer with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, England. In 2008, he joined the Submillimeter-Wave Advanced Technology Group at JPL as a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow. From 2011 to 2024, he was a Senior Development Expert and the head of the Space Projects department at Radiometer physics GmbH, a Rhode & Schwarz company, Germany. In 2024, he joined ESA as a Microwave Engineer with RF Equipment and Technology Section, ESTEC, the Netherlands.

Dr. Thomas has been developing over the last 25 years GaAs Schottky-based technologies and THz components/systems for Earth Observation and planetary science instruments, such as the 183-664 GHz receivers for the Ice Cloud Imager instrument onboard the ESA/EUMETSAT MetOp-SG satellite B, the 325 GHz front-end of the ESA/EUMETSAT Arctic Weather Satellite and D-band Local Oscillator sources for Sub-millimetre Wave Instrument onboard the ESA JUpiter ICy moon Explorer satellite. Dr. Thomas was the recipient of the 2009 JPL Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Award from NASA