As part of the Instrument Science Group, I’m participating in the developments for the Focal Plane Assembly of the X-IFU mission on-board ESA’s future NewAthena X-ray observatory, with the specific task of characterizing the performance of the time-division multiplexing readout system in collaboration with NIST (US), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (US) and APC (France).

Furthermore, I am leading the activities in SRON for the contribution of TES bolometers and frequency-domain multiplexing readout to JAXA’s LiteBIRD mission.

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