Artem Feofilov, atmospheric physicist, lidar remote sensing, EarthCARE, ATLID, Aeolus, CALIPSO, radiative transfer, non-LTE

Artem Feofilov is a Research Engineer at the Laboratory of Dynamic Meteorology (LMD), Sorbonne Université / CNRS / École Polytechnique. He specializes in remote sensing/radiative transfer and in calibration/validation of spaceborne lidars (ATLID/EarthCARE, ALADIN/Aeolus, CALIOP/CALIPSO), development of atmospheric retrieval algorithms and long-term cloud climate records.

Experimental experience

Artem Feofilov started studying the interactions of light and matter at the Dept. of Photonics of St. Petersburg State University, Russia.

His Ph.D. work "Single-color laser ionization of some oxygen-containing benzene derivatives" was dedicated to establishing the correlations between the electronic structure of the molecules and mechanisms of laser ionization using the methods of photoelectron spectroscopy, mass-spectroscopy, and threshold electron spectroscopy (ZEKE).

Scientific expertise

Dr. Feofilov has over 25 years of research experience spanning laser spectroscopy, non-LTE in the upper atmosphere, spaceborne hyperspectral observations in the infrared, and spaceborne lidar remote sensing.

Current activity

Calibration and validation of ATLID, the atmospheric lidar aboard ESA's EarthCARE satellite (launched May 2024). Co-I of ESA CalVal project.

Development of a high-resolution wind and cloud retrieval algorithm from raw ALADIN/Aeolus L1A data.

Merging cloud observations from CALIPSO, Aeolus, and EarthCARE to build a continuous long-term cloud climate record (2006–present).

Supervision of Master ISI apprentices (Sorbonne Université) funded by French Academie Spatiale.