Bolsée David

Dr. David Bolsée is working at the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy since 31 years. After a master in Physics and Geophysics, he started to work in the 90's on absolute radiometry applied to Solar Spectral Irradiance (SSI) measurements, especially for ground-based experiments in the frame of European projects. The objective was to initiate long-term monitoring of UV SSI in Europe.

In 1999, after the selection of the SOLAR/SOLSPEC space experiment by ESA as a payload for the International Space Station (ISS), he worked on SSI measurements from space. His main contribution was to upgrade the instrument for long-term mission and to extend its performances for absolute radiometry.

He contributed to the 9-year SOLAR/SOLSPEC mission on the ISS (2008-2017, PI since 2014). Moreover, he obtained a PhD thesis in 2012 on SOLAR/SOLSPEC (optical metrology, radiometry) at the Free University of Brussels.

Since 2017, he is at the head of the D42 section of BIRA-IASB (Solar Irradiance and Radiometry). Between 2018 and 2021, he provided main efforts to upgrade the available facilities in the frame of the ESA MAJIS/JUICE project, and led the complete electro-optical characterization campaigns for the Flight and Spare models of the MAJIS VIS-NIR array detectors.

Nowadays, his main activities are to contribute to the development of the Belgian Radiometric Chararcterization Laboratory (B.RCLab) at BIRA-IASB, whose objective is to become a reference laboratory for metrology applied to radiometry, and to contribute to new ground-based and space projects within the framework of solar irradiance measurements, Earth energy balance and planetary sciences.