Andrew Karim Email & Phone Number

Longueuil, Quebec, Canada

Engineer within CSA's Mission Instrument Design Group.

Lead a team of international students and young professionals as part of SGAC's Small Satellite Project Group research initiative titled "Study of Small Satellite Applications for High-Resolution Greenhouse Gas Monitoring". Over the course of my term, our teams presented four congress presentations at the International Astronautical Congress 2023 and 2024.

Project Manager for the Canadian Stratospheric Balloon Experiment Design Challenge (CAN-SBX). CAN-SBX is a competition for Canadian post-secondary students to design and test a small scientific experiment to fly on board a high-altitude balloon provided by the Canadian Space Agency.

Worked on the development of fused fluoride glass components for mid-infrared fiber laser sources and amplifiers deployed for environmental monitoring in northern environments.Research supervisors: Réal Vallée and Martin Bernier

Candidat aux élections générales provinciales de 2022 dans le but de représenter la circonscription de Taschereau (Capitale-Nationale) en tant que député à l'assemblée nationale du Québec sous la bannière du Parti Vert.

In collaboration with the CSA, designed a dust removal electrode comb for lunar rover radiators and assessed the quality of the rover's thermal control (MATLAB, NX Nastran).Presented two congress papers at the 2022 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Paris, France.

Lead Polytechnique Montréal's space oriented technical society composed of more than 90 students by coordinating the work of the CubeSat, Rover and Educational Outreach departments.

Characterized and integrated a novel optical sensor to measure greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4) during a stratospheric balloon flight, as part of the CAN-SBX (Canadian Stratospheric Balloon Experiment Design Challenge).

Gave the lab sessions, assisted students and corrected homeworks. This 3rd year engineering physics course covers chemical kinetics, diffusion, phase transitions, and surface and interface processes.

Characterized recycled gold (Scanning Electron Microscopy and Energy Dispersive X-ray) used to develop organic transistors. Co-author of a publication in Nanotechnology (IOP Publishing).Adviser: Clara Santato

Wrote payload test scripts (Python) for 3 satellites used to measure greenhouse gas emission sources. The satellites were successfully launched in 2022.

Coordinated sampling campaigns for the ATRAPP (Algal blooms Treatment, Risk Assessment, Prediction and Prevention through genomics) research initiative, helping reduce toxic bloom episodes endangering many lakes of Quebec.Adviser: Michèle Prévost

Master Of Science - Ms, Physics

Research supervisors: Réal Vallée and Martin Bernier

Bachelor'S Degree, Engineering Physics

Graduated with the equivalent of a full year of graduate studies in optics & photonics. Activities & Societies: PolyOrbite (CubeSat &.

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