Dr. Léo Martire is a JPL Research Technologist in the Ionospheric and Atmospheric Remote Sensing Group, and the Deputy Director for the International GNSS Service’s Central Bureau since July 2022. They received their PhD degree with honours in Astrophysics, Space Science, and Planetary Science from the Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace in 2020. They then joined JPL as a Postdoctoral Scholar, from February 2021 to July 2022.
- PhD with honours - Astrophysics, Space Science, and Planetary Science - Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, Toulouse, France - 2020.
- MEng - Applied Mathematics - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Toulouse, France - 2017.
- MSc - Optimisation and Operations Research - Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile & Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France - 2017.
- Multi-GNSS ionospheric monitoring. Computation of high-resolution global ionospheric maps. Development of a real-time GNSS-based early warning system for natural hazards.
- Geophysical acoustics: atmospheric science with a focus on mechanical waves, and the mechanical coupling with the ground or the ocean surface.
- Numerical modeling and fluid mechanics.
- Applications to planetary science, and especially Mars and Venus.
Their doctoral dissertation featured both numerical modeling and experimental applications, researching topics in propagation of infrasound in coupled solid/fluid or ground/atmosphere systems. They analyzed terrestrial tropospheric and stratospheric datasets (i.e., seismic infrasound, microbaroms), demonstrated the presence of infrasound on Mars as measured by SEIS instrument onboard NASA’s InSight lander, and worked with Dr. Baptiste Chide on modelling acoustic attenuation for SuperCam’s microphone on board Mars2020 Perseverance. During prior internships, they developed N-bodies simulations at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in order to numerically study the effect of gravitational shocks on globular star clusters, and helped the French Space Agency (CNES) design algorithms based on measure theory for orbital collision risk assessment
- JPL Team Award 2023: Ionospheric Operations Support (The team completed strategic software enhancements that support near-real time US Space Force space weather operations.)
- ION GNSS+ 2022 Best Presentation Award (GUARDIAN: A Near Real-Time Ionospheric Monitoring System for Natural Hazards Early Warnings)
- JPL Team Award 2021: Balloon-Based Acoustic Seismology Study (For conducting the first balloon-based seismology campaign with infrasound instrument design.)
- Fondation ISAE-SUPAERO’s PhD Thesis Award (2020)
- L. Martire, et al., “SPECFEM2D-DG, an Open Source Software Modeling Mechanical Waves in Coupled Solid-Fluid Systems: the Linearised Navier-Stokes Approach”, Geophys. J. Int., Aug. 2021, doi:10.1093/gji/ggab308.
- L. Martire, “Characterisation of Infrasound in the Coupled Solid-Atmosphere System: Numerical Modelling, Terrestrial and Planetary Applications”, Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace, 2020.
- R. F. Garcia, L. Martire, et al., “An active source seismo-acoustic experiment using tethered balloons to validate instrument concepts and modelling tools for atmospheric seismology”, Geophys. J. Int., Dec. 2020, doi:10.1093/gji/ggaa589.
- L. Martire, et al., “Martian Infrasound: Numerical Modeling and Analysis of InSight’s Data”, J. Geophys. Res. Planets, May 2020, doi:10.1029/2020JE006376.
- L. Martire, et al., “Numerical Simulation of the Atmospheric Signature of Artificial and Natural Seismic Events”, Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 45, no. 21, pp. 12085–12093, Nov. 2018, doi:10.1029/2018GL080485.
