Aerospace 2022, 9(3), 146; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9030146 - 7 Mar 2022
Best Paper Award
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Aerospace 2020 Best Paper Award. All papers published in Aerospace in 2020 were considered for this award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, their number of citations, and their number of downloads, the three winning papers, which were nominated by the journal’s Award Committee, were selected as follows:
A Review of Concepts, Benefits, and Challenges for Future Electrical Propulsion-Based Aircraft
By Smruti Sahoo, Xin Zhao and Konstantinos Kyprianidis
Aerospace 2020, 7(4), 44; DOI: 10.3390/aerospace7040044
U-Space Concept of Operations: A Key Enabler for Opening Airspace to Emerging Low-Altitude Operations
By Cristina Barrado, Mario Boyero, Luigi Brucculeri, Giancarlo Ferrara, Andrew Hately, Peter Hullah, David Martin-Marrero, Enric Pastor, Anthony Peter Rushton and Andreas Volkert
Aerospace 2020, 7(3), 24; DOI: 10.3390/aerospace7030024
Large Constellations of Small Satellites: A Survey of Near Future Challenges and Missions
By Giacomo Curzi, Dario Modenini and Paolo Tortora
Aerospace 2020, 7(9), 133; DOI: 10.3390/aerospace7090133
Each award will consist of a certificate and the chance to publish an additional paper, with all publication fees waived, in open access format in Aerospace after the standard peer review procedure.
Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Aerospace 2020 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Aerospace.
Aerospace 2020 Best Paper Award
Eligibility and Requirements
– All papers published in Aerospace will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
A Comprehensive Survey on Climate Optimal Aircraft Trajectory Planning
Advanced Sizing Methodology for a Multi-Mode eVTOL UAV Powered by a Hydrogen Fuel Cell and Battery
Aerospace 2022, 9(2), 71; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9020071 - 27 Jan 2022
Award Committee
Prof. Konstantinos Kontis
Chairman
University of Glasgow
Prof. Dr. Paolo Tortora
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Dr. Sergey B. Leonov
University of Notre Dame
Prof. Dr. Michael Schultz
University of the Bundeswehr Munich
Winner
Kyriakos I. Kourousis
School of Engineering, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX Limerick, Ireland
Dr. Xavier Olive
ONERA DTIS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Winner
Thien Nguyen
Thermal-Hydraulic Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
Sebastiano Fichera
School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3GH, United Kingdom
Manuel Pusch
Institute of System Dynamics and Control, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Weßling, Germany
Winner
Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou
Department of Civil, Environmental and Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
Michael Schultz
Chair of Air Transport Technology and Logistics, Institute of Logistics and Aviation, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany
Jichun Zhang
School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Winner
Rachel N. Hernandez
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville, OKT N274, 301 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
Babak Salamat
Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria
Dean Ninian
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