COSMIC Team


Damien Gratadour

COSMIC lead, astronomer and senior research scientist at Observatoire de Paris - CNRS. As a technology enthousiast, Damien has successfully spearheaded numerous disruptive R&D projects in astronomical instrumentation for over a decade, including COSMIC.

Florian Ferreira

COSMIC guru and main software architect. As a software reasearch engineer (PhD) at Observatoire de Paris - CNRS, Florian is managing the effort for the design and manufacturing of SPHERE+ RTC. He is also the COMPASS lead and main architect.

Arnaud Sevin

COSMIC guru and core contributor. As a software reasearch engineer at Observatoire de Paris - CNRS, Arnaud is managing the effort for the design and manufacturing of MICADO RTC. As a mercenary technologist, he is also an expert in network architectures, middleware and high performance computing.

Julien Bernard

COSMIC guru and core contributor. As a software reasearch engineer at AITC - ANU, Julien has been the core developer for GHOST RTC and is responsible for the MAVIS HRTC development. As a C++ guru, Julien is always pushing for integration of new features and tools into COSMIC, with a vision.

Nicolas Doucet

COSMIC core contributor. As a software reasearch engineer (PhD) at AITC - ANU now back to Observatoire de Paris - CNRS, Nicolas has been responsible for the MAVIS SRTC development and specializes in handling large HPC workflows for AO loop supervision including new highly optimized linear algebra.

Julien Plante

COSMIC core contributor. As a PhD student and transient radio-astronomy expert, Julien has been contributing to the smart NIC integration in COSMIC in collaboration with Nvidia and responsible for prototyping on NenuFAR.

Cyril Cetre

COSMIC core contributor. As a PhD student with Thales Research & Technology, Cyril has been developing and validating new features in COSMIC fostering portability across compute hardware options, including a new multithread pipeline for operations on embedded platforms.