Christophe Risacher

Christophe Risacher received the M.Sc. degree in engineering from École Supérieure d’Électricité (Supélec), Gif-sur-Yvette, France, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2005. Since 1998, he has been with various radio astronomy observatories developing novel instrumentation and supporting observations. Among those are the IRAM 30 m telescope in Granada, Spain, the Chalmers University of Technology with the Onsala Observatory, Onsala, Sweden, the Apex Telescope with the European Southern Observatory, and the HIFI instrument with the Herschel Observatory. From 2011 to 2018, he was with the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany, as the Project Manager responsible for the development of the upGREAT array receivers for the SOFIA NASA/DLR airborne observatory. Since 2018, he has been the Receiver Group Leader with the Institute Radio Astronomie Millimétrique, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France.