Dr Frédéric Pitout

Dr Frédéric Pitout is a permanent astronomer at IRAP (Toulouse, France). He is an expert on the polar cusp region and coupling between the Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. He is a specialist in ionospheric radar data incoherents (ISR), he is also the French scientific correspondent for the EISCAT consortium. He also has an excellent expertise in satellite data (Cluster, Double Star) and is also a regular user of the TRANSCAR/IPIM ionosphere model.