Van Laeken Lionel

Lionel Van Laeken has been working since 2018 (first year as an intern) at the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy on the ESA JUICE space mission to Jupiter.

He is passionate about space science, especially space flight and exploration. That's why he decided to study civil engineering at the University of Liege in 2012, to focus on the aerospace field and acquire high-level technical skills. In 2019, he obtained his master's degree in aerospace engineering.

During his three-year career at BIRA-IASB, he participated in the development of a high-end laboratory to both reproduce Jupiter's environment and to correctly calibrate the MAJIS detector, a payload of the JUICE satellite. His team was responsible for the spectral characterization of the flight and spare models of the MAJIS spectrometer. He also made minor contributions to the UV network of the institute.