Engineer from Arts & Métiers and Ecole Supérieure des Techniques Aérospatiales, Jean-Claude Traineau is senior expert in propulsion systems for launchers.
At ONERA since 1980, he used to be manager for Space Access, leader of a Martian Reentry team, and Director for 14 years of the Fauga-Mauzac Wind Tunnel Division.
He is Space Director at ONERA since 2017