# Aurélien Genin (@astroaure.eurosky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/astroaure.eurosky.social
Headline: Space robotics engineer
Location: Toulouse, Occitanie, France
Website: https://woosh.link/astroaure.eurosky.social

## About

French space 🛰️ robotics 🤖 engineer, passionate about astronomy 🔭

Alumni of Ecole Polytechnique 🇫🇷 and EPFL 🇨🇭

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## Experience

- **Intelligence military service at French army** (2021 – 2022)
  Development of software tools, OSINT (open-source intelligence).
- **Intern in space rover navigation at CNES** (2026 – present)
  Implementation of Stereo-LiDAR fusion for rover navigation. Development of ground tools for navigation operations of the MMX/IDEFIX rover.
- **Intern in terrestrial robot navigation at Exail** (2023 – 2023)
  Development of control algorithms for autonomous obstacle overcoming with a tracked robot with flipper arms.
- **Research intern in observational astronomy at Cosmic DAWN Center** (2024 – 2024)
  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

## Education

- **Lycée du Parc** — CPGE (MPSI/PSI), Mathematics, Physics, Engineering (2019 – 2021)
- **Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur** — University Degree, Astronomy (2023 – 2024)
- **Ecole polytechnique (X)** — Enigineer Degree, Engineering (2021 – 2024)
- **Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)** — Msc, Robotics and space technologies

## Skills

- ROS2
- Gazebo
- C++
- OSINT
- Astronomy
- AWS
- Python
- ROS2
- Gazebo
- C++
- Python
- Computer Vision
- Python
- Robotics
- Space mission design

## Projects

- **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. 
- **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.
- **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.
- **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.).
- **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).
- **Student 3U CubeSat CHESS**
  Student club - EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland 🇨🇭

Algorithms for the X-band ground antenna, "Mission design" pole leader, operations planning.

## Publications

- DAWN JWST Archive: Morphology from profile fitting of over 340 000 galaxies in major JWST fields — Astronomy & Astrophysics (https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202555504)
- SOL: Solar Observatory at distant Lagrange point — EUCASS (https://www.eucass.eu/doi/EUCASS2025-035.pdf)
- Swiss Space Sustainability Research Days 2025 - Book of Abstracts (https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/251791)

## Languages

- French (native)
- English (full_professional)
- German (limited_working)
- Russian (elementary)

## Other profiles

- website: https://astroaure.github.io/
- github: https://github.com/AstroAure/
- orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0653-477X
- website: https://woosh.link/astroaure.eurosky.social