F. Wildi is presently senior systems engineer in the instrumentation group of the Observatory of Geneva.
since 2012 he's in charge of the detectors characterization and the payload calibration for the CHEOPS photometric transits satellite.
2006-2014 he was systems engineer in charge of interfaces and integration of the VLT-SPHERE instrument; an extreme Adaptive Optics exo-planet direct imager. In parallel, he does research work on Fabry-Perot calibrators for radial velocity spectrographs and responsible for the focal plane of a satellite meant to characterize extra-solar planets by the transits method (Phase A). In the last years, he has also been a member of various committees evaluating new instruments for large and extremely large telescopes.
1999-2003 he was the chief engineer of the MMT Adaptive Optics program and had lead the project to the fist light of the world's 1st AO system based on an adaptive secondary mirror.
He started his career as a project engineer designing embedded electronics systems for space born applications, also leading other hardware and software developers involved in his projects.
since 2012 he's in charge of the detectors characterization and the payload calibration for the CHEOPS photometric transits satellite.
2006-2014 he was systems engineer in charge of interfaces and integration of the VLT-SPHERE instrument; an extreme Adaptive Optics exo-planet direct imager. In parallel, he does research work on Fabry-Perot calibrators for radial velocity spectrographs and responsible for the focal plane of a satellite meant to characterize extra-solar planets by the transits method (Phase A). In the last years, he has also been a member of various committees evaluating new instruments for large and extremely large telescopes.
1999-2003 he was the chief engineer of the MMT Adaptive Optics program and had lead the project to the fist light of the world's 1st AO system based on an adaptive secondary mirror.
He started his career as a project engineer designing embedded electronics systems for space born applications, also leading other hardware and software developers involved in his projects.
This will count as one of your downloads.
You will have access to both the presentation and article (if available).
NIRPS first light and early science: breaking the 1 m/s RV precision barrier at infrared wavelengths
The mission lead is performed in a partnership between Switzerland, led by the University of Bern, and the European Space Agency with important contributions from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
The CHEOPS mission will be the first space telescope dedicated to search for exoplanetary transits on bright stars already known to host planets by performing ultrahigh precision photometry on bright starts whose mass has been already estimated through spectroscopic surveys on ground based observations.
The number of exoplanets in the mass range 1-30 MEarth for which both mass and radius are known with a good precision is extremely limited also considering the last two decades of high-precision radial velocity measurement campaigns and the highly successful space missions dedicated to exoplanets transit searches (CoRoT and Kepler).
In this work we present the AO module of the future NIRPS spectrograph for the ESO 3.6 m telescope, that will be feed with multi-mode fibers. We converge to an AO system using a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor with 14x14 subapertures, able to feed 50% of the energy into a 0.4" fiber in the range of 0.98 to 1.8 μm for M-type stars as faint as I=12.
View contact details
No SPIE Account? Create one
