Dr. Mathieu Balesdent is a Research Engineer at Onera the French Aerospace Lab, since 2011 in the System Design and Performance Evaluation department. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the "Ecole Centrale de Nantes" (France) in 2011. His main research interests include rare event probability estimation, reliability based and multidisciplinary optimisation, and aerospace vehicle design. He is also a regular referee for several international conferences and journals such as the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.