Infrared image sensors for space and Solar System exploration

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As a final year engineer at CentraleSupélec, I have the honor to send you my application for the PhD offer on nfrared image sensors for space and Solar System exploration. Since my childhood I have been fascinated by camera technology and light, this passion has taken me to photography as one of my favorite hobbies, so this curiosity was not limited to art alone but led me to love the science behind it. My passion for optics and photonics and their promising technology for an eco-responsible and benevolent future, has always helped me to make my choices. Indeed, after my baccalaureate that I obtained with a very good mention in Morocco, I integrated the preparatory classes CPGE in order to deepen my knowledge in mathematics. Always with this vision, to reach my objectives with rigor and patience, I chose within the framework of my studies in CPGE, to work on a project on the optical holography which falls obviously under photonics implementing several scientific assets on the interferences, the lasers, the undulatory optics and thus imaging. This perseverance allowed me to reach one of the excellent schools in Morocco, the Ecole Centrale Casablanca, part of Centrale network in France for an engineering cycle of international renown where one learns not only to acquire technical profiles but to have an innovative spirit aiming at building the world of tomorrow, to consider the stakes of everyday life in order to innovate and challenge oneself and one's environment. During my two years at Ecole Centrale Casablanca (ECC), I was able to mature my professional project and deepen my skills in the field that I want to make a specialty, especially with courses in signal processing, statistics, quantum physics, solid state physics, DFT for materials, and modeling under COMSOL, essential prerequisites to continue in this field of innovation in optics. Indeed, during the 1st year experimental training at ECC, I worked in group on a subject entitled: "the Faraday effect", which more precisely aims at modulating an optical carrier in left and right polarization by a Faraday coil and quarter-wave blades, an excellent experiment by which we could apply an information processing of a more optimal optical perspective avoiding the noise, which generally affects the amplitude of the carrier. In fact, the experiment received the approval of the juries, since it is something unique and specific to our group, never done or experienced. The ECC gave me the chance to participate in different projects of innovation and challenges like the one of the first year, in which I was introduced to the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning, which is nowadays an indispensable field in any specialization, and through which I deepened my potentials in coding in python, which I assume to master well, since I used it since my two years in preparatory classes.