Mathieu Quatrevalet

Mathieu Quatrevalet was born in Creutzwald, France, in 1980. He received the graduate degree in optical engineering from the Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Palaiseau, France, in 2004. He worked on performance simulations and requirements definitions for both passive and active earth observation instruments at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre from 2004 to 2007, and operated and upgraded a combined aerosol and ozone lidar managed by the Service d’Aéronomie (now Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, LATMOS) at the French Antarctic polar station Dumont d’Urville, in the frame of a winter over in 2008. Since 2009, he has been with Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, working on the development of air-borne and space-borne lidars for trace gas measurements.