David Alexandre

Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering. Research Engineer in Space Surveillance and Tracking at DTIS - ONERA, The French Aerospace Lab
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  • DTIS, ONERA, Université de Toulouse [Toulouse]
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After a 2-year Undergraduate program in Mechanical Engineering, I pursued in the aerospace industry through a Master's apprenticeship program. This atypical path led to several achievements:

  • A 3-year experience as an engineer in the quality department at Airbus Nantes (France)
  • An opportunity to express my leadership on three global projects for Airbus (France, Germany, UK)
  • The successful application of these projects on many aircraft programs (A320, A330, A350, A380, A400M)
  • A master of science degree in mechanical engineering in 2015

After graduation, two colleagues and I decided to start an entrepreneurship project based on the development of a regional network for recycled materials between companies in the aerospace industry. The project suffered from a lack of financial support and ended in 2017.

As a space science and space exploration enthusiast, I enrolled in a Ph.D. Graduate program in Space Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech, USA) in January 2018. My research on the Earth’s atmosphere dynamics was funded by NASA and NSF from May 2019 to May 2021, and led to:

  • The development of a 4D non-hydrostatic ray-tracing model for the atmospheric gravity-wave propagation
  • The publication of two research articles in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres
  • A contribution to build nano-satellites with the "Virginia Cubesat Constellation" team
  • The publication of a conference paper for the 2019 IEEE Aerospace Conference
  • The publication of my Ph.D. dissertation entitled: "The Influence of Obliquely Propagating Monsoon Gravity Waves on the Polar Summer Mesosphere"
  • The completion of my Ph.D. in May 2021

Today, I am a research engineer in space surveillance and tracking at ONERA – The French Aerospace Lab in Toulouse (France) where major challenges are waiting to be faced.