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Section Board for 'Astronautics & Space Science' (21)

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Prof. Dr. Paolo Tortora
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Interests: small satellites; innovative spacecraft subsystems including the ground segment; planetary exploration with particular reference to radio science experiments
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Prof. Dr. Mikhail Ovchinnikov
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Space Systems Dynamics Department, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (KIAM RAS), Moscow, Russia
Interests: spaceflight dynamics; applied celestial mechanics and ballistics; formation flying; interplanetary mission design; attitude control systems for small satellites; laboratory simulation and flight testing of the dynamics of small satellites
Prof. Dr. Georg Herdrich
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Head Plasma Wind Tunnels and Electric Propulsion, Space Transportation, Institute of Space Systems (IRS), University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 29, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Interests: aerothermodynamics (modeling, experiment, in-flight investigation); aerothermochemistry (modeling, experiment, in-flight investigation); electric space propulsion; advanced space propuldion; energy systems for space; technology transfer
Dr. Angelo Cervone
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Department of Space Engineering, Aerospace Engineering Faculty, Delft University of Technology, Kluyverweg 1, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands
Interests: space propulsion; small spacecraft design; space systems engineering; miniaturization of space systems and components; interplanetary CubeSat missions
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Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Casalino
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Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
Interests: space trajectories analysis and optimization; space propulsion
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Prof. Dr. Vladimir S. Aslanov
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Head of Theoretical Mechanics Department Samara National Research University, Samara, Russia
Interests: tethered satellite systems; re-entry ballistics; space debris removal; dynamics and control of satellites in non-contact interaction
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Prof. Dr. George Z.H. Zhu
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
Interests: dynamics and control of tethered spacecraft system and space robotics; electrodynamic tether propulsion and space debris removal; multi- functional materials; additive manufacturing in space; solid mechanics and finite element method
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Prof. Dr. Richard E. Wirz
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Interests: electric propulsion; plasma; renewable energy; energy storage
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Prof. Dr. stephen whitmore
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA
Interests: green propellant; hybrid rockets; propulsion systems
Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Vasile
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde, 75 Montrose Street, G1 1XJ Glasgow, United Kingdom
Interests: global optimisation; multiobjective optimisation; optimisation under uncertainty; space systems engineering; aerospace engineering; uncertainty quantification
Prof. Dr. Martin Tajmar
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Institute of Aerospace Engineering, Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany
Interests: electric propulsion; breakthrough propulsion for spacecraft
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Prof. Dr. Raffaele Savino
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Department of Industrial Engineering, Aerospace Division, University of Naples "Federico II", Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, Italy
Interests: high speed aerodynamics; aerothermodynamics; space propulsion; space technologies; microgravity fluid dynamics
Prof. Dr. Joshua L. Rovey
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Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Interests: space propulsion; plasmas; combustion; propellants; space exploration
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Prof. Dr. Pierre Rochus
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Centre Spatial de Liège and Department of Space Instrumentation, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Interests: space technologies; optics; structures; thermal design; structure dynamics; tribology; mission design; space sciences; Earth observation; astrodynamics
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Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Piergentili
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Interests: space; satellite; astrodynamics; control systems engineering; space technology; spacecraft; aeronautical engineering; orbital mechanics
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Prof. Dr. Dario Modenini
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Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Interests: design and testing in the field of microsatellites and space microsystems; methods for attitude determination and control; recursive filters; micropropulsion systems; test-bench for attitude determination and control systems of small satellites
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Prof. Dr. Stéphane Mazouffre
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ICARE - CNRS, 1c Avenue de la recherche scientifique, 45071 Orléans, France
Interests: spacecraft electric propulsion; micropropulsion; ground testing; measurement techniques; plasma physics; laser-aided diagnostics
Prof. Dr. Igor Levchenko
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1 Plasma Sources and Applications Centre and Space Propulsion Centre, NIE, Nanyang Technological University, 637616 Singapore
2 School of Chemistry, Physics, and Mechanical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia
Interests: space electric propulsion; advanced materials for space applications; nanotechnology; plasma physics
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Prof. Dr. Vaios Lappas
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1. School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Bedford MK430AL, UK
2. Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Patras, Patras 265 04, Greece
Interests: small satellites; launchers; GNC
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Prof. Dr. Fanghua Jiang
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School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Interests: astrodynamics; orbit design and trajectory optimization for space exploration
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Prof. Dr. Gokhan Inalhan
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Centre for Autonomous and Cyber physical Systems, Cranfield University, Cranfield MK43 0AL, UK
Interests: aeronautical systems; autonomous systems; computing; simulation modelling; defence info systems; operational analysis and simulation; space systems
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