Philippe C. Adell

Philippe Adell started working at the NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology in Feb. 2007 after completing his MS (2003) and PhD (2006) in Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Prior moving to the US, he had radiation effects research experience with Alcatel Space and the French space agency (CNES). He also graduated from the polytechnic institute of the University of Montpellier (France), with a MS (1999) in material science and technologies. In his first 10 years at NASA-JPL, he has provided his mission assurance expertise to several JPL flight projects such as Europa, the Mars Science Lander and more recently the Mars Helicopter. In the past 5 years, he has been the interplanetary program office small satellite system lead at JPL and manage the Lunar Flashlight project, the first 6U small satellite that will orbit another planet and perform science that will launch in 2022. Philippe has published extensively in the field of radiation effects in micro-electronics and systems. He has served as short course instructor and technical chair at major US and European radiation effects conferences.