Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
Prof. Dr.
Joris BLOMMAERT

Postal address:
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Physics Department
Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Group
Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Room: F9.09a
Email:
Phone:
+32 2 629 34 59
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Near Earth Asteroids
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Late stages of evolution of small to intermediate mass stars
- Mass loss process of evolved stars
- Dust formation in the circumstellar environment
- Debris disks
- Infrared and Radio Observational Astronomy
- The Milky Way and Local Group Galaxies
- Galactic Bulge stellar population
I work(ed) on the operational and calibration aspects of different instruments used in space or on groundbased telescopes
- Space Missions:
- TIRA: thermal infrared camera for the ESA Hera mission that will perform an in situ study of the Near Earth Asteroid binary Didymos
(foreseen launch date: end 2024). - ISOCAM for ESA's Infrared Space Observatory
- PACS for ESA's Herschel Space Observatory
- MIRI for the NASA James Webb Space telescope (foreseen launch date: 2021)
- TIRA: thermal infrared camera for the ESA Hera mission that will perform an in situ study of the Near Earth Asteroid binary Didymos
- Groundbased:
- METIS for the European Extremely Large Telescope (European Southern Observatory, Chile, expected start date 2022)
Researchgroups
Astronomy and Astrophysics