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M.-C. Cousinou is a key contributor to the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration, focusing on the instrumentation and survey design that enable one of the most ambitious cosmological experiments ever undertaken. Their major contributions center on the development and characterization of DESI’s complex fiber-optic positioning system and the overall instrument integration, which are critical for collecting spectra from 40 million galaxies and quasars over a five-year survey. This work directly supports the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) to probe the nature of dark energy with unprecedented precision. The overview paper detailing DESI’s instrumentation, which has garnered 10 citations, serves as a foundational reference for the project’s technical achievements. Cousinou’s role in ensuring the instrument’s reliability and performance has been vital to DESI’s success, making their work essential for advancing our understanding of cosmic expansion and the fundamental physics driving the universe’s accelerated growth.