Joris BLOMMAERT

• Near Earth Asteroids

• 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)
• Groundbased:
  • METIS for the European Extremely Large Telescope (European Southern Observatory, Chile, expected start date 2022)