Olivier Witasse
Planetary Scientist
Main Research Fields
Ionospheric physics
Keywords
- Study of planetary upper atmospheres (Venus, Earth, Mars, Titan)
- Focus on: ionosphere, airglow and aurorae
- Modelling, data analysis
- Study of the martian moons: solar wind interactions, origin(s)
- Study of electric fields at the surface of Mars
Ongoing collaborations
- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (Toulouse, France)
- Observatoire Royal de Belgique (Bruxelles, Belgium)
- University of Leicester (UK)
- LATMOS Laboratory (Guyancourt, France)
Publications
Project/mission at ESA
Past projects:
- Huygens
- Venus Express
- Chandrayaan-1
- Mars Express
- ExoMars 2016
Current project:
- JUICE (since January 2015)