Bertrand Bonfond has always had a great interest in space. In his fourth year of primary school, he presented a report on the planets. Later he became a faithful attendee at conferences of the Astronomical Society of Liège, and following the advice of his professors he decided to study to become an engineer-physicist.

He graduated from the University of Liège in 2005, and began a DEA program in astrophysics and geophysics in order to begin work on a doctoral dissertation in the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Planetary Physics (LPAP) of the University of Liège. His DEA thesis, defended in 2007, had to do with the observation of polar auroras on Jupiter using images produced by the Hubble Space Telescope. Today, Bertrand Bonfond is continuing his doctoral research in this area.

Publications

GRODENT D., GÉRARD J-C., RADIOTI A., BONFOND B.,SAGLAM A.(2008), Jupiter’s changing auroral location, in Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, A01206, doi:10.1029/2007JA012601. Read an abstract

RADIOTI A., GÉRARD J-C., GRODENT D., BONFOND B., KRUPP N. and WOCH J., (2008), Discontinuity in Jupiter’s main auroral oval, in Journal of Geophysical Research,113, A01215, doi:10.1029/2007JA012610 Read an abstract

RADIOTI A., GRODENT D., GERARD J.-C., BONFOND B. and CLARKE J., (2008), Auroral polar dawn spots - Signatures of internally driven reconnection processes at Jupiter's magnetotail, in Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L03104, doi:1029/2007GL032460, Read an abstract

BONFOND B., GRODENT D.,. GÉRARD J.-C ,. RADIOTI A, SAUR J. and JACOBSEN S. (2008), The UV Io footprint leading spot: A key feature for understanding the UV Io footprint multiplicity?, Geophys. Res. Lett., Read an abstract

BONFOND B., GÉRARD J.-C. , GRODENT D. and SAUR J. (2007), Ultraviolet Io footprint short timescale dynamics, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2006GL28765. Read an abstract