Léonard Prengère, Ph. D.

Léonard Prengère holds a Master’s degree in Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Space Engineering from the Observatoire de Paris, jointly completed with an engineering diploma from the École d’Ingénieur Denis Diderot, with a focus on hardware systems including optics, control theory, and signal processing.
He received his Ph. D. in Physics from the Charles Fabry Laboratory (Institut d’Optique Graduate School / CNRS) between 2017 and 2021, under the supervision of Caroline Kulcsár. His doctoral thesis, titled High Performance Control of Adaptive Optics Systems for Large to Extremely Large Telescopes, explores advanced predictive control strategies for adaptive optics (AO) systems. It focuses on atmospheric turbulence mitigation applied to both Low Earth Orbit (LEO) object imaging and extremely large telescopes, where the high number of degrees of freedom poses significant challenges for real-time control.
After several years in industry, he is now a researcher at Fraunhofer IOSB in Ettlingen, Germany, where he continues to contribute to the development of high-performance adaptive optics systems for terrestrial and orbital applications.