Florian Kehl, Ph.D., is the head of the Space Instruments Group at the University of Zurich’s Department of Astrophysics and part of Thomas Zurbuchen’s (former NASA Science Director) Space Science & Technology group at ETH Zurich. He specializes in developing instruments for remote and in-situ exploration of the solar system and beyond. His tenure at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory included roles as a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow from 2016 to 2019 and as a Technologist in the Chemical Analysis and Life Detection Group from 2019 to 2021.Dr. Kehl earned his BSc and MSc degrees in Nanoscience from the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He also worked at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology in Landquart in 2007 and was a Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2009. He pursued his Ph.D. at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in the Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics from 2011 to 2015.Currently, Dr. Kehl is the Swiss Project Manager and Deputy Payload Manager for the ESA Space Telescope ARRAKIHS, set for a 2030 launch.