Aurélien Genin
Space robotics engineer
Intern in space rover navigation at CNES
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Career: 4
Intern in space rover navigation
CNES
Toulouse, Occitanie, FR · On-site
Mar 2026 - Present
Intern in space rover navigation
CNES
Toulouse, Occitanie, FR · On-site
Implementation of Stereo-LiDAR fusion for rover navigation. Development of ground tools for navigation operations of the MMX/IDEFIX rover.
Research intern in observational astronomy
Cosmic DAWN Center
Copenhagen, Capital Region, DK · On-site
Apr 2024 - Aug 2024
Research intern in observational astronomy
Cosmic DAWN Center
Copenhagen, Capital Region, DK · On-site
Galaxy morphology measurements from James Webb Space Telescope images using SourceXtractor++. Results published in a paper in Astronomy & Astrophysics: DAWN JWST Archive: Morphology from profile fitting of over 340 000 galaxies in major fields, A. Genin et. al., 2025, A&A 699 A343, https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/07/aa55504-25/aa55504-25.html
Intern in terrestrial robot navigation
Exail
Saclay, Île-de-France, FR · On-site
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
Intern in terrestrial robot navigation
Exail
Saclay, Île-de-France, FR · On-site
Development of control algorithms for autonomous obstacle overcoming with a tracked robot with flipper arms.
Intelligence military service
French army
Strasbourg, Grand Est, FR · On-site
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
Intelligence military service
French army
Strasbourg, Grand Est, FR · On-site
Development of software tools, OSINT (open-source intelligence).
Education: 4
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Msc, Robotics and space technologies
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Msc, Robotics and space technologies
Master's degree in robotics, with a minor in space technologies. Courses: Spacecraft design and systems engineering, Design of mechanisms for space and extreme environments, Concurrent engineering of space missions, Legged robots, Mobile robotics, Aerial robotics, Robotics for manipulation, Space mission design, Model predictive control, Deep learning, Cosmology, Scientific outreach. Full course list: https://astroaure.github.io/assets/Course_catalogue_EPFL_AGN.pdf
Activities / Societies: Projects: Design of an autonomous telescope (PANOPTES) as a scientific outreach project with STEM IH, Mirror mechanism control for ESO's VLT BlueMUSE instrument, Development of X-band ground station algorithms to track satellites, Phase 0/A of a solar observatory at Sun-Earth L4, Scientific outreach event for children about crowd science, Design of a 3m-wide wood observatory at SSA. Clubs: EPFL Spacecraft Team (student CubeSat mission), SSA (astronomy for space surveillance), Callista (astronomy and PANOPTES outreach project). Result: 5.63/6
Ecole polytechnique (X)
Enigineer Degree, Engineering
Sep 2021 - Aug 2024
Ecole polytechnique (X)
Enigineer Degree, Engineering
Generalist engineer degree, with a focus on space sciences. Courses : Mechanics of deformable media, Fluid dynamics, Computer fluid dynamics, Space plasma physics, Compressible aerodynamics, Algorithms conception and analysis, Data science, Statistics, Optimization and control, Relativity, Quantum physics, Molecular biology Full course list: https://astroaure.github.io/assets/Course_catalogue_X_AGN.pdf
Activities / Societies: Projects: 6U CubeSat IonSat (System engineering and AIT), Autonomous racing car, Model United Nations in London (United Arab Emirates delegate at COPUOS), Model of the Coradi analyser. Clubs: Astronautix (space/astronomy, president), Apicultix (beekeeping, president), Binet Photo (photography, equipment manager), Artifix (fireworks, pyrotechnician), Album Promo (memory album of the promotion, photo manager). Result: GPA 3.95/4
Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
University Degree, Astronomy
Sep 2023 - Jun 2024
Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
University Degree, Astronomy
Online courses on all aspects of astronomy: space objects, optical instruments, spectroscopy... Astronomical images reduction and analysis using Python, Source-Extractor, Astrometry.net, Astropy... Final project involving remote piloting of a 1m telescope to acquire data and data analysis
Activities / Societies: Observation of asteroid (6) Hebe with a 1m telescope with three SDSS filters, full light-curve analysis, asteroid shape estimation.
Lycée du Parc
CPGE (MPSI/PSI), Mathematics, Physics, Engineering
Sep 2019 - Jul 2021
Lycée du Parc
CPGE (MPSI/PSI), Mathematics, Physics, Engineering
Two intensive years of formation in STEM leading to the most selective exams for french engineering schools.
Projects: 6
Calibration of the BlueMUSE integral field spectrograph
Sep 2025 - Feb 2026
Calibration of the BlueMUSE integral field spectrograph
Academic project - EPFL Astrobots, Lausanne, Switzerland 🇨🇭 Development of algorithms for fine open-loop control of the FM1 mirror on the VLT's future BlueMUSE integral field spectrograph.
Automated telescope PANOPTES
Feb 2025 - Feb 2026
Automated telescope PANOPTES
Student club - EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland 🇨🇭 Development of a new version of the telescope for the PANOPTES project, with scientific aims (detection of exoplanets) and science outreach in Global South countries.
Student 3U CubeSat CHESS
Sep 2024 - Feb 2026
Student 3U CubeSat CHESS
Student club - EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland 🇨🇭 Algorithms for the X-band ground antenna, "Mission design" pole leader, operations planning.
Morphological measurements of galaxies
Apr 2024 - Aug 2024
Morphological measurements of galaxies
5-month research internship - Cosmic DAWN Center, Copenhagen, Denmark 🇩🇰 Analysis of images from the James Webb Space Telescope to study the evolution of the morphology of high-redshift galaxies through cosmic times. Paper published in Astronomy&Astrophysics.
Student 6U CubeSat IonSat
Sep 2022 - Dec 2023
Student 6U CubeSat IonSat
Academic project - Ecole polytechnique (X), Palaiseau, France 🇫🇷 Systems engineer, AIT planning (Assembly, Integration and Testing). Talk at the 13th European Cubesat Symposium (2023, Leuven, Belgium).
All-terrain robot navigation
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
All-terrain robot navigation
3-month internship - Exail, Saclay, France 🇫🇷 Programming in ROS and Qt of a mine-clearing robot with tracks and flippers to make it more autonomous in overcoming obstacles (stairs, steps, etc.).
Publications: 3
DAWN JWST Archive: Morphology from profile fitting of over 340 000 galaxies in major JWST fields
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal ArticleAurélien Genin, Marko Shuntov, Gabe Brammer, Natalie Allen, Kei Ito, Georgios Magdis, Jasleen Matharu, Pascal A. Oesch, Sune Toft, Francesco Valentino
SOL: Solar Observatory at distant Lagrange point
EUCASS
Conference PaperAurélien Genin, Adrien Dupont, Alexandre Corbaz
Swiss Space Sustainability Research Days 2025 - Book of Abstracts
David, Emmanuelle, Poirier, Clémence, Benjamin Guyot, Andreas Losch, Miles Timpe, Ghesquière-Diérickx, Thibault, Arthur Woods, Udriot, Mathieu Jean-Pierre, Verkammen, Marnix Hendrik G, Susanne Wampfler, Romain Buchs, Price, Andrew Lawrence, Hellmich, Stephan, Marco Langbroek, Roger Spinner, Thomas Schildknecht, Karin Treyer, Rachith, Elisabeth Andréa Cécile, Merve Erdem Burger, André Galli, Aubert, Josué Samuel, Genin, Aurélien, Valentin Meier, Bélanger Villanueva, Sebastian, Frolova, Angelina, Patrick Smit, Federico Di Vruno, Enrico Chesta, Thomas Rimbot, Adrian Jäggi, Luı́s Gonçalves, Pierre-Alexis Joumel, Kees van der Pols, Crichton, Carolyn Marie, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Hannah Besser