Some badges

Today I was thinking I would like to put together all the cool badges I have had so far, this is, Alcatel Space's, JAXA's and ESA's. I have been looking into quite old pictures and I have found some photos of them! Therefore, I have decided to put them here, to try to blur the feeling some people have of me never having been working at those places ;-)

I have also noticed that I have been progressively changing over time... Is it aging??

So, there we go...

Alcatel Alenia Space (AAS/Toulouse): This was my first experience abroad and was quite enriching both personally and professionally. It was from Feb 2005 to Aug 2005. Here I was working on multipactor effect on filters and my work led to a patent pending.

Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA/ Tsukuba Space Center): Here is when I was around in Japan last summer, this is, from May 2006 to Aug 2006. It was a quite short but intense experience... I was working around 16 hours a day to finish my project and travelling every weekend, sometimes as far as Kyoto or Osaka. I think this badge was really cool with all the Japanese characters around and the small astronaut. My work dealt with helical antennas for telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C).

And finally,

European Space Agency (ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands): This is where I have been the last 6 or 7 months and where I will be until at least October 2008. Quite a long time!! My work is about EM modelling of Schottky diodes and design of mixers working at frequencies as high as 400 GHz. Later I will do other stuff about (sub-)millimeter waves. They are not for telecom but for Earth Observation and Science...

Eso es todo amigos!