Dr. Quentin Nénon

Since January 2022, Dr. Quentin Nénon is a CNRS research scientist at IRAP in Toulouse, France. In 2018, Quentin defended his PhD thesis on the study and modeling of the radiation belts of Jupiter, prepared at the ONERA laboratory. One of the topics covered by Quentin’s thesis was the influence of moons and rings on the distribution of space plasma particles in the Jovian magnetosphere. After that, Quentin was a postdoctoral scholar in the Space Sciences Lab (SSL) of U. C. Berkeley in California, where he worked with Dr. Andrew Poppe on the characterization of the ion environments bombarding the surfaces of the Moon and Phobos. At SSL, Quentin benefited from close collaborations with the teams that developed the particle detectors onboard NASA’s MAVEN mission, which enabled him to finely study the unique ion environment encountered by Phobos around Mars and the expected alteration of the surface. The latter studies have an impact on the upcoming MMX mission to Phobos.