p orleanski

Piotr Orleański, PhD in electronics, works in Space Research Center of Polish Academy of Sciences since 1979, for the last 10 years as Deputy Director for Technology Development. He started his space activities from a few USSR and Russian projects, especially PRIRODA at MIR Station and Mars 96 to Mars. He was a Co-I and technical leader of Polish participation in hardware development in many spectacular ESA missions: Integral, Mars Express, Chandrayaan (cooperation ISRO/ESA), Venus Express, Herschel, ASIM and TGO/ExoMars. In 2009-2016 he led a technical activities (System Enginer, as part-time employer of FHNW in Switzerland) for STIX Instrument in ESA Solar Orbiter Mission. The integration and test of the first two Polish satellites BRITE Lem and Hevelius (2009-2014) has been successfully completed in Poland under his technical responsibility. He collected the extremely big experience as electronic engineer, test engineer, system engineer, group leader and project manager in design and development of space and ground based instrumentation, in particular in digital electronics, optoelectronics, DC/DC Converters and space technology. For the last 25 years he spent more than 6 years (in total) at research and commercial institutions in about 30 American and European commercial companies and scientific organisations. He is a laureate of FOCUS stipend by Foundation for Polish Space, 2007-2012 for organisation of Laboratory of Space Applications of FPGA Circuits in SRC PAS. For the last ten years he gave the lectures at Warsaw University of Technology, SRC PAS and Hertz Systems for „The Basics of Space Technology” and „The Basics of the Design of Satellite Instruments”. He is a member of Polish Space Agency Council and Committee on Space Research of Polish Academy of Sciences. Last years he was the evaluator and reviewer of more than 30 European Union Horizon 2020 Space projects.