Curriculum Vitae

Lyon, France


Education


Oct 2023 - present

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PhD Student: Study of Early Mars Noachian sedimentary record.
Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon: Terre, Planètes, Environnement.

  • Subject: Characterization of Early Mars (Noachian) clays around Chryse Planitia: from remote sensing data to ground-based spectroscopy.
  • Thesis Directors: Cathy Quantin-Nataf (LGL-TPE) & John Carter (IAS, LAM).
  • Funding: OCEANID ERC grant.

3 years: 2018 - 2021

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Master’s Degree in Science and Executive Engineering.
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France.

1 year: 2020 - 2021

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Erasmus exchange: Astronomy and Astrophysics Master Course.
Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.

6 months: Oct 2019 - March 2020

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Academic exchange: Space Engineering Master Course.
Kyushu Institute of Technology (KYUTECH), Kitakyushu, Japan.

3 years: 2015 - 2018

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Mathematics and Physics Undergraduate Studies.
CPGE filière MPSI-MP*, Lycée Chaptal, Paris, France.

July 2015: Scientific French Baccalaureate.

Work


Oct 2023 - current

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Teaching Activities (ACE). Université Lyon 1, France.

    64h of annual teaching in Geosciences, Mathematics, Remote-sensing.


2 years: Sept 2021 - Sept 2023

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Young Graduate Trainee in the ExoMars Science Team.
European Space Agency, ESTEC, Netherlands.

    Preparing the science operations for Europe’s first Mars rover:

  • Development of a remote-sensing data repository of the Oxia Planum landing site & integration to the science team web-GIS (MMGIS) interface.
  • Assess target's astrobiology potential by developping trade-off tools.
  • Investigating the Molecular Assembly Index with the MOMA LD-MS instrument.


6 months: March - Sept 2021

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Master Thesis Internship.
European Space Agency, ESAC, Spain.


3 months: June - Aug 2020

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Internship.
Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble, France.

    Validation of Gaia Mission stellar spectra before DR3 release.

Publications

  • Orgel C., Torres I., Besse S., van der Bogert C. H., Bahia R., Prissang R., Ivanov M. A., Hiesinger H., Michae, G., Pasckert J. H., El Yazidi M., Bradak B., & Walter S. H. G. (2024). Characterization of High- priority Landing Sites for Robotic Exploration Missions in the Apollo Basin, Moon. The Planetary Science Journal, 5(2), 29. https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad1108.

  • Fawdon P., Orgel C., Adeli S., Balme M., Calef F. J., Davis J. M., … , Torres I., … , Zorzano M. P. (2024). The high-resolution map of Oxia Planum, Mars; the landing site of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission. Journal of Maps, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2024.2302361

Conference Abstracts & Posters

Mars Tenth International Conference, 2024, Pasadena, US.

    Torres I., Carter J., Quantin-Nataf C., Volat M. and Millot C., Extent and Nature of Clay-Rich Deposits: from Oxia Planum to Mawrth Vallis.

    ⨠ Link to the abstract.


BEACON, 2023, La Palma, Spain.

    Torres I., Vago J. L., Sefton-Nash E., Goesmann F. and the MOMA Team, ExoMars: Detecting biosignatures using the molecular assembly index with MOMA.


EPSC, 2022, Granada, Spain.

    Torres I., Sefton-Nash E., and Vago J. L., Trade-Off Tools to Quantify Biosignature Potentials for the future ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Rover Mission, EPSC 2022, Spain. https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2022-912.