Michel Bousquet

Prof. Michel Bousquet retired from ISAE-SUPAERO, the French Aerospace Engineering Institute of Higher Education where he directed master programmes and was leading a research team in communications and navigation. Born in 1951, holding degrees from University of Toulouse and Supaero, he is still active in non-profit organizations involved in research activities or support to students. With over forty years of teaching and research experience related to several aspects of satellite systems, participation to many European and ESA R&D projects, he is the author/co-author of many papers and textbooks and stood on the boards of European research programmes (COST, SatNEx Network of Excellence). 

Visiting lecturer with several foreign universities, emeritus faculty of the International Space University (ISU), organizer of numerous workshops and short courses in the fields of satellite communications, spacecraft engineering and technologies, he is recipient of the 2019 AIAA Aerospace Communication award for his “For his outstanding contribution and promotion of education and proliferation of knowledge on aerospace communication and navigation”.