Olivier La Marle has worked at CNES (Centre national d'études spatiales) since 2001. Since 2019, as part of the Strategy Department, he has been in charge of the Universe Sciences programme and French delegate to the ESA Science Program Committee. From 1996 to 2008, he worked as an engineer on various space and non-space projects, in the private sector and then at CNES. Between 2008 and 2019, he was a thematic expert in astronomy and astrophysics at CNES, working in particular on the Gaia, James Webb Space Telescope, Euclid, SVOM and Athena missions.
