Renaud Goullioud

Renaud Goullioud is a principal systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and has over 15 years of experience in systems engineering and management of complex optical instruments for astronomy and Earth science. He has an EE degree from the Institute of Chemistry and Physics of Lyon, France, and a Ph. D. in electronics from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon. He has worked on NASA's Space Interferometry Mission from 1997 to 2010 and has received the NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal in 2006, for leadership of three of SIM's major technology testbeds, whose successful completion played a critical role in establishing technology readiness for the mission. Recently, he was the Project Systems Engineer for OpTIIX a class D technology demonstration for a segmented mirror space telescope to be installed on the ISS.