Martijn Smit

Martijn Smit has been with SRON since 1998 as an instrument scientist. He has worked on a variety of projects of very different nature. He started with modeling the gradiometer for ESA’s GOCE mission in support of performance studies which were conducted in close collaboration with Thales Alenia Space. He subsequently took on the role of project manager for a range of project, including o.a. the Dutch contribution to ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission. Martijn participated in characterization and performance studies of the SPEX prototype multi-angle spectro-polarimeter instrument that was developed with a consortium of Dutch institutes including SRON. Martijn subsequently lead the extension of SPEX towards SPEX airborne as a payload for NASA’s high-altitude research aircraft. He has co-developed dataprocessing algorithms for Level 0-1 data processing of SPEX airborne data, and led the calibration of SPEX airborne. He is also responsible of the participation of SPEX airborne in the flight campaign conducted as part of an EC funded study SCARBO (Space CARbon Observatory). Recently he participated in the calibration campaign of SPEXone, the multi-angle spectrometer developed in the Netherlands, and which was shipped in March 2021 to NASA for the PACE mission (launch: late 2023).