BERG Matthew J.
Department of Physics, Kansas State University, USA
Matthew Berg is a tenured associate professor of physics in the Department of Physics at Kansas State University (KSU). Professor Berg received a Ph.D. in physics from KSU in 2008 and a B.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the Colorado School of Mines in 2003. Following graduate school, he held a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory from 2009-2010. In 2010 he joined the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Mississippi State University and then KSU in 2016.
BRAESICKE Katrin
Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB), Germany
Katrin Braesicke is a departmental Science Management Advisor (SMA) at the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation. Following a diploma in physics she did her doctorate at the Chemistry Department of the Freie Universität (FU) in Berlin finishing in 1999 with a thesis on “Computer Simulations of Macro Molecules”. Her first post doc position was in the Behavioural Neuroscience group at the Department for Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. She joint the Fraunhofer Institute in 2013 as a research associate and lead a group on Scene Simulation from 2018 to 2022. Since January 2023 she works as SMA for the Department of Optronics.
LATGER Jean
OKTAL-SE, France
Synthetic Environment (OKTAL-SE) was created in 2001 by its Chief Executive Officer Jean LATGER as an emanation of the OKTAL company created in 1989. Today, OKTAL-SE is part of the SOGECLAIR Group located in Toulouse-France. The company is a human-sized structure that ensures a high reactivity and a customer focused attitude.
PUJOL Olivier
Laboratory of atmospheric optics (LOA), Lille University, France
Olivier Pujol is a PhD researcher in Physics at the Lille University (laboratoire d’optique atmosphérique). His field of investigations covers a large domain, from the Physics of water vapor, clouds, and precipitation to wave scattering by complex media. After a PhD thesis at the University of Toulouse in 2006 on radar remote sensing of precipitating systems, he worked and collaborated four years with Thalès Airborne System enterprise where he developed six patented algorithms for radar airborne detection of hazardous precipitating system for civil aviation. He joined the University of Lille in 2007 where he is currently working on water vapor, cloud/aerosol interactions and light scattering by complex atmospheric particles and clouds. Olivier Pujol has also high-level teaching activities in Physics, in particular in the international Master 2 « Atmospheric Environment ». He has also supervised various Master degree internships and PhD thesis, and is co-author of several textbooks in Physics.
RIVIERE Nicolas
ONERA The French Aerospace Lab, Optronics Department, France
Nicolas Riviere is a senior research scientist at ONERA, The French Aerospace Lab in the Department of Optics and Associated Techniques (DOTA). He received his PhD degree in 2006 and does researches in the field of light scattering and laser imagery. His research interests cover advanced vision in low visibility thanks to 3D laser imaging techniques such as high resolution 3D-LiDAR and telemetric systems embedded on mobile vehicles (eg. drones or planes).
VAITEKUNAS David
W.R. Davis Engineering Ltd., Canada
David Vaitekunas is a Principal Engineer in IR software development at WR Davis Engineering Limited. Davis is a high technology defense company established in 1975 in Ottawa, Canada, providing IR signature management products and services for ships and rotorcraft / fixed wing aircraft, combining computer IR simulations with real-world manufacturing and IR measurements.