Stephane Claude

Stéphane Claude (deceased September 2014) received the Engineering degree in material sciences from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Caen, Caen, France, in 1990, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from London University, Queen Mary, and Westfield College, London, U.K., in 1996. From 1990 to 1996, he was a Research Associate with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, U.K., where he developed techniques for the fabrication of superconducting–insulator–superconducting mixer chips for low-noise submillimeter receivers in radio astronomy. His doctoral research was to commission a 500 GHz receiver at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), Hilo, HI, USA. In 1996, he joined the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, where he continued development on low-noise receivers for astronomy, including a 200 GHz receiver for the JCMT and a sideband separating mixer design. From 2000 to 2002, he was with the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique, Grenoble, France, where he was involved with the design of a 275–370 GHz receiver (Band 7) for the Atacama Large Millimetre Array. From 2002 to 2014, he led the Millimetre-Wave Instrumentation Group, NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics, National Research Council Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada. He was the Project Engineer for the 84–116 GHz receiver (Band 3) developed for ALMA and was also an Adjunct Professor with the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.