Name: InfraRed detectors In Space (IRIS 2026) Workshop
Start: 2026-03-10T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-12T23:30:00+01:00
Location: CNR Area Territoriale della Ricerca Bologna

InfraRed detectors In Space (IRIS 2026) Workshop

from Tuesday, March 10, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, March 12, 2026 (11:30 PM)

Monday, March 9, 2026
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

8:00 AM Registration
Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Room 216
9:00 AM Welcome and Workshop Agenda
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Room 216
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome INAF Scientific Directorate - Andrea Bianco

9:10 AM Welcome INAF OAS Bologna Director - Lorenzo Amati

9:20 AM Workshop Agenda and Logistics - Eduardo Medinaceli
9:30 AM Space Missions Overview: Operation and development of near-infrared instruments
Operation and development of near-infrared instruments
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Room 216
Contributions

9:30 AM An Overview of Three Decades of Infrared Detectors in Space - Massimo Robberto

9:55 AM Euclid - Ralf Kohley

10:15 AM Beyond Expectations: JWST Status and Outlook - Thomas Brown

10:35 AM The SPHEREx Mission - Phil Korngut

11:25 AM The MAJIS VIS-IR imaging spectrometer on ESA/JUICE mission - François Poulet

11:45 AM Overview of the Ariel mission and payload - Paul Eccleston

12:05 PM The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - Timothy Brandt

12:25 PM The ESA Arrakihs F2 Mission - Marco Sirianni
1:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Ground Floor
2:00 PM Poster Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Mezzanine Floor
Contributions

2:00 PM Cosmic rays and snowball detection and analysis on EUCLID-NISP slew dark data - Evandro Balbi

2:00 PM Pyxel 2.0: collaborative detector and instrument modelling - Frederic Lemmel

2:00 PM The Ariel FGS' High Fidelity Simulator - Gerald Mösenlechner

2:00 PM Persistence and anti-persistence in Euclid and SVOM - Naomie De Araujo

2:00 PM ARRAKIHS FGS task and simulator - Roman Zoufal
3:00 PM Technology Development / New Mission Concepts
3:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Room 216
Contributions

3:00 PM Teledyne's Infrared Focal Plane Technologies for Space Missions: Heritage, Present Products, and Future Developments - James Beletic

3:25 PM Technology Developments at Leonardo - Matthew Hicks

3:45 PM Technology Development at Markury Electronics - Markus Loose

4:35 PM Detector developments supported by the European Space Agency - Matthew Soman

4:55 PM Overview of MCT IR developments at LETI for space and science applications - Olivier Gravrand

5:15 PM The Camera of the Infra-Red Telescope of the THESEUS mission - Aline Meuris

5:35 PM The GaiaNIR mission and the hidden regions of our Galaxy - David Hobbs
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
9:30 AM Data Acquisition / Signal Estimation
9:30 AM - 12:05 PM
Room: Room 216
Contributions

9:30 AM New acquisition techniques in SPHEREx - Phil Korngut

9:55 AM Euclid's NISP signal estimator - Fabrizio Cogato (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:20 AM H1RG readout procedures for MAJIS, the VIS-IR imaging spectrometer of JUICE: description and impact on instrument performance - François Poulet

11:15 AM JWST NIRSpec’s Cosmic Ray Experience at L2 - Bernard Rauscher

11:40 AM Snowballs detection in Euclid’s NISP detectors - Louis Gabarra
12:05 PM Simulation
12:05 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Room 216
Contributions

12:05 PM Pyxel 2.0: collaborative detector and instrument modelling - Frederic Lemmel

12:20 PM Modelling Infrared instrument performance and Science yield: the Ariel case study - Lorenzo Mugnai

12:35 PM PyXim - A fast, GPU accelerated, differentiable HxRG simulation framework - Leander Lacroix
1:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Ground Floor
3:00 PM Infrared Detectors Characterization
3:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Room 216
Contributions

3:00 PM Avalanche photodiodes (APDs) testing at ESA/ESTEC - Vincent Affattato

3:25 PM Characterisation of 1kx1k and 2kx2k arrays of HgCdTe APDs for astronomical imaging - Vinita Mittal

3:50 PM IR detectors characterisation CEA-Leti - Titouan Le Goeff

4:45 PM Ground Characterization of H2RG FPAs for the ARRAKIHS Mission at IFAE - Jorge Jimenez

5:10 PM Performance of Euclid H2RG detectors: IPC and persistance contributions - Aurélia Secroun

5:35 PM A Cryogenic Detector Stage for Dithering Applications - Stephen Smee

6:00 PM Characterisation of H4RG-15 detectors for ground based astronomy in the era of ELTs - Derek Ives
Thursday, March 12, 2026
9:30 AM Pre-launch Characterization Strategies
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Room 216
Contributions

9:30 AM Preparing for the ARIEL System-level cryo-test campaign - Yannis Argyriou

9:55 AM ARIEL FGS characterization - Grzegorz Szymański

10:20 AM ARIEL AIRS characterization - Clara Bataillon

11:15 AM Lazuli Space Observatory’s H4RG Calibration Strategy - Everett Schlawin

11:40 AM Characterization of the H4RG-10s of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - Gregory Mosby

12:05 PM Preliminary Characterization Results of the ARRAKIHS NIR Detector with a 1.8 µm H2RG Prototype at 150 K - Eloy Hernandez
12:30 PM In-flight Calibration and Performance
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Room 216
Contributions

12:30 PM Euclid - Impact of detector effects on Spectroscopic Data Processing - William Gillard
1:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Ground Floor
2:00 PM In-flight Calibration and Performance
2:00 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Room 216
Contributions

2:00 PM Reaching the ultimate readnoise with advanced pipeline (JWST) - Michael Regan

2:25 PM Euclid - Persistence In-flight calibration - Simon Conseil

2:50 PM Euclid - Impact of detector effects on Photometric Data Processing - G. Polenta

3:15 PM New advanced readout modes in JWST - E. Bergeron
4:10 PM Wrap-up and Next Appointments
Wrap-up and Next Appointments
4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Room 216

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