Actual and past thesis subjects

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List of Bac, Master and PhD thesis:

Alexandre Garny : Serpentinization of Martian rocks as a potential source of atmospheric methane. Physics faculty ; Promoter Véronique Dehant
Stella Ratovoson : Space navigation with the Delta-DOR. Physics faculty ; Promoter Véronique Dehant

Arthur Lacroix : LUNA, its orbit from the ISS. Physics faculty ; Promoter Véronique Dehant
Lola Link : Necessary conditions for the presence of liquid water on Martian soil. Physics faculty ; Promoter Véronique Dehant

Alexandre Winant : Link between habitability and magnetic field ; Promoter Véronique Dehant
Arthur Lacroix : LUNA ; Promoter Véronique Dehant

Hadrien Robin: LUNA nanosat, orbit determination ; Promoter Véronique Dehant
Maximilien de Bonhomme: Computation of the Earth's core-mantle interface deformation due to the plunging plates and point of rising magma in the mantle. ; Promoter Véronique Dehant
Mathilde Tasseroul: Literature review and Matlab function coding to analytically compute the gravity of a cube / cuboid for a given size and density at a specified (outer) point on the surface or further. ; Promoter Véronique Dehant

Cyriac de Villenfagne de Vogelsanck. Analyze and modeling of tropospheric scintillation on low elevation angle earth-satellite link. EPL ; Promoter Danielle Vanhoenacker-Janvier.

Joachim Kervyn de Meerendre. The scintillation phenomenon at low elevation angles in earth-space communications. EPL ; Promoter Danielle Vanhoenacker-Janvier.
Robin Dormal. Static and fatigue failure of aerospace grade epoxy resins. EPL ; Promoter Thomas Pardoen.

Carl-Henrik Dahlqvist : Improvements for solar wind exospheric model. Ecole de physique ; Promoter Viviane Pierrard
Ange Pacifique Ishimwe : Numerical study of tides in the subsurface oceans of icy satellites, with a particular focus on Saturn’s moon Titan. EPL, Mathematical Engineering ; Promoter Eric Deleersnijder
Russel Adrien : Denoising and registration of planetary radar images. EPL, Computer science and engineering ; Promoter : Christophe De Vleeschouwer, Co- Promoters : Véronique Dehant, Marc Lobelle
Bertrand Steenput. VLBI usage for artifical source localisation: a feasability study. EPL ; Promoters : Luc Vandendorpe ; Ozgur Karatekin.

Ludovic Bontemps : Preliminary study of the nanosatellite LUNA. Prior description of its components and their constraints, with orbit determination ; Promoter : Véronique Dehant, Co- Promoters : Philippe Chatelain et Pierre Schrooyen.
Khalid Koumila : Study of liquid brines on martian slopes. Physics faculty ; Promoter Véronique Dehant.
Cortes De Mingo, Miguel. Parametric study of Lunar Landers. EPL ; Promoter Paul Fisette.
Ludovic Bontemps. Preliminary study of LUNA nanosatellite : preliminary description of components and their constraints, with orbit determination. EPL ; Promoters : Véronique Dehant ; Philippe Chatelain.
Alexandre Copis. Study and energetic optimization of the electrical supply of a nanosatellite. EPL ; Promoter Marc Bekemans.
Julien Defauw. Introduction to the thermal behavior of a CubeSat. EPL ; Promoter Marc Bekemans.
Romain Debroeyer. Design of a mechanism for the deployment and actuation of fins for a recoverable space launcher stage (CALLISTO Project). EPL ; Promoter Renaud Ronsse.
Denys Morel de Westgaver : Dynamic study of radiation belts from EPT data. Physics faculty ; Promoter Viviane Pierrard

Antoine Van Hentenryck: Reconciling Package Inconsistencies in Satellite Operations: A Data Mining Approach. EPL ; Promoter Ramin Sadre.
Martin Vanoverschelde : State of the art of space habitable structures and design of a lunar habitat. EPL ; Promoter Pierre Latteur.
Guillaume Vanhalst ; Guillaume Hanon : A study of the landing phase of the Juventas CubeSat on the moon of the binary asteroid system Didymos. EPL ; Promoters : Philippe Chatelain; Pierre Schrooyen ; Véronique Dehant.
Antoine Dallenogare ; Matthias Mannella : Design and prototyping of a platform for modular 0g experiments in glider parabolic flights. EPL ; Promoters : Philippe Chatelain; Benoît Herman.
Lucas Ody. Generative adversarial networks : virtual satellite images generation. EPL ; Promoter Pierre Schaus.
Héloïse Baudhuin ; Antoine Lambot. Change detection in satellite imagery using deep learning. EPL ; Promoter Pierre Schaus.

Alexis Coyette : Rotation variations and the interior structure of icy satellites of the outer solar system. Physics faculty ; Promoters : Véronique Dehant and Tim Van Hoolst
Graciela López Rosson : Van Allen radiation belts dynamics revealed from PROBA-V/EPT observations. Physics faculty ; Promoters : Viviane Pierrard and Véronique Dehant
Sumit Karki : Beamforming and Beamshaping Architectures devoted to Space Communication. EPL ; Promoter : Christophe Craeye

Antony Trinh : Precession, nutation and libration of a triaxial planet. Physics faculty ; Promoters : Véronique Dehant and Tim Van Hoolst
Elodie Gloesener : Methane Clathrate hydrate stability in the Martian subsurface and outgassing scenarios. Physics faculty ; Promoters : Véronique Dehant and Ozgur Karatekin

David Vincent : Modeling of the internal oceans of ice satellites and their surface lakes. EPL, Mathematical Engineering ; Promoter Eric Deleersnijder
Marie-Julie Péters : Use of lander radioscience to obtain rotation and orientation of Mars. Physics faculty ; Promoters : Véronique Dehant and Sébastien Le Maistre
Aymeric Houliez : Planetary dynomos generated by precession, nutations and tides. Physics faculty ; Promoters : Véronique Dehant and Raphael Laguerre
Luca Ruiz Lozano : Use of observations by Trace Gas Orbiter on the evolution of the surface Mars polar ice caps. Physics faculty ; Promoters : Véronique Dehant and Ozgur Karatekin
Valentin Fortier : Study of methane formation by serpentinization of basalts under Martian conditions. Experimental approach and connection with future ExoMars remote sensing measures. Physics faculty ; Promoters : Véronique Dehant and Vinciane Debaille (Co-organized with ULB)
Matthias Noeker : Gravimeter development to measure the gravity of small bodies in the solar system. Physics faculty and EPL ; Promoters : Véronique Dehant and Denis Flandre
Alfonso Caldiero : Precise orbits for estimating the gravity of small bodies; lighting on the foundations of the solar system. Physics faculty ; Promoters : Véronique Dehant and Sébastien Le Maistre
Hakan Sert : VLBI Emitter for nanosat. Physics faculty ; Promoters : Véronique Dehant and Ozgur Karatekin