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Born | Nacer E. Chahat |
Nationality | French American |
Education | École supérieure d'ingénieurs de Rennes (MSc) University of Rennes 1 (MSc) University of Rennes 1 (PhD) |
Occupation(s) | Engineer Researcher |
Organization | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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Scientific career | |
Institutions | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
Thesis | Antenna, propagation and interaction with the human body for body-centric wireless communications at microwaves and millimeter waves (2012) |
Nacer E. Chahat is a French-American engineer and researcher at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Chahat was born in Angers, France to a family of Algerian descent. [1] He was educated at Palissy High School. [2] He obtained his master's degrees in electrical engineering from École supérieure d'ingénieurs de Rennes|Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Rennes (ESIR) and in telecommunication from the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes (IETR), University of Rennes 1 in 2009. [3] [2] He completed his Ph.D. in signal processing and telecommunications at the IETR, University of Rennes 1, in 2012. [3] [4]
Chahat has been associated with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), since 2013. [3] [1] Initially, he joined as a Microwave/Antenna Engineer and later took on the roles of Technical Section Staff and Product Delivery Manager in 2017. [5] He became SWOT Payload System engineer in 2019. [6]
At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Chahat has contributed to several projects, including the Mars Helicopter, Mars 2020, SWOT, Europa Clipper, Mars Cube One, RaInCube, and others. [6]
On April 19, 2021, Chahat was part of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory team that successfully made Ingenuity, the first powered-controlled aircraft to fly on another planet. [7]
In 2022, Chahat was named an IEEE Fellow, recognized for his contributions to spacecraft antennas and propagation, and became one of the youngest fellows of IEEE. [3]
Chahat specializes in antenna design and electromagnetic interference and compatibility (EMI/EMC) analysis for space missions. [8] He also works across a wide range of frequencies, from UHF to THz, applied in communications, RADAR, imaging systems, satellite communications antennas, wearable and flexible antennas, and antennas for remote sensing and radio astronomy. [8]
Chahat's notable contributions to NASA missions include the design of the Raincube Ka-band deployable mesh reflector, the Mars Cube One X-band antennas, the Europa lander antenna, and communication tools for the Mars Helicopter mission. [8] [9]