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Alesia Herasimenka

University of Surrey, University of Luxembourg, Université Côte d'Azur, Sorbonne Université, Research Centre Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

ORCID iD 0000-0002-3904-2609
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About

I am Research Associate in the Space Systems team at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability, and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg. My field of research is trajectory optimisation, control of spacecrafts, and aerospace engineering. I received a PhD in Mathematics within McTAO, a common team between Laboratory J. A. Dieudonné at Université Côte d’Azur and Inria Sophia Antipolis. My PhD research focused on optimal control of solar sails and was co-funded by the European Space Agency (ESA). I hold a Master’s degree in Sciences for Engineering – Advanced Systems and Robotics and a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from Sorbonne Université. I also obtained a Bachelor’s in Economics and Management from Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

I won several prizes for my research: L'Oreal - UNESCO Award for Women in Science France 2023, Pierre Laffitte Medal. In December 2023, I was invited to a ceremony of excellence of Université Côte d'Azur, where I was awarded the President's Prize for my research. I had an opportunity to present my research at more than 10 international conferences, where I received the best oral presentation and the best poster awards. I was invited to give talks at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2023), Université de Lorraine (2024), and two solar sail workshops (Brijuni conference 2022, LighstSail workshop 2022).

Employment

  • University of Surrey Surrey Future Fellow in Space
    2024 - Present
  • University of Luxembourg Research Associate
    2023 - 2024
  • Research Centre Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée Postdoctoral Researcher
    2023 - 2023
  • ONERA Research Internship, New techniques of relative pose estimation between satellites
    2020 - 2020
  • Carleton University Research Internship, Analysis of a solar sail mission for geoengineering
    2019 - 2019
  • Satys Interiors Assistant Engineer in Stress Analysis
    2018 - 2018
  • Institut Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique Internship
    2017 - 2017
  • Satys Interiors Assistant Design Engineer
    2017 - 2017
  • EIKEO Internship
    2016 - 2016

Education

  • Université Côte d'Azur PhD in Mathematics, Optimal control of solar sails. Thesis co-funded by European Space Agency
    2020 - 2023
  • Sorbonne Université Master in Sciences for Engineering - Advanced Systems and Robotics. High honors, grade 16.45/20, ranking 1/37
    2018 - 2020
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology Exchange semester
    2018 - 2018
  • Sorbonne Université Bachelor Cursus of Master in Engineering - Mechanical Engineering. High donors, grade 15.75/20, ranking 4/160
    2015 - 2018
  • Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Bachelor in Economics and Management
    2013 - 2016

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