As part of Oxford’s Space Instrumentation Laboratory, I lead the assembly, integration, testing and calibration of MIRMIS, the infrared imager on ESA’s Comet Interceptor mission. MIRMIS is a hyperspectral instrument covering 0.6–25 μm. It will help make the first close observation of a dynamically new comet, one entering the inner Solar System for the first time. My work covers test planning for the flight model ahead of launch in 2029, including environmental, EMC, and radiometric and geometric calibration testing, along with the verification documentation and reviews with ESA.
My background spans both ground-based and space-based instrumentation. During my PhD at UCL (2020–2024) I aligned, integrated and tested the Wide Field Corrector for 4MOST, alongside research on high-redshift galaxies and the Epoch of Reionisation. I then joined the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) as Lead System Verification Scientist for 4MOST (2024–2025), running testing in Europe and commissioning on site at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.