
People
Take a look at the staff and PhD students who work in our Space Centre.
Academics
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Professor Guglielmo Aglietti
Project Principal Investigator for RemoveDEBRIS

Dr Nicola Baresi
Lecturer in Orbital Mechanics

Dr Christopher Bridges
Senior Lecturer in On-Board Data Handling (OBDH)

Professor Yang Gao
Professor of Space Autonomous Systems, Associate Dean (International), Wiley JFR Editor-in-Chief

Dr Raffaella Guida
Reader in Satellite Remote Sensing

Dr Andrea Lucca Fabris
Lecturer in Electric Propulsion

Dr Keith Ryden
Reader in Space Engineering

Professor Martin Sweeting
Distinguished Professor of Space Engineering

Professor Craig Underwood
Head of the Planetary Environments Group
Research staff

Dr Mohamed Abdelwahab
Research Fellow in 3D sensing and perception for space robotic system (funded by EPSRC)

Dr Mohamed Alkalla
Research Fellow in Planetary “Wasp Drill” (funded by EPSRC)

Dr Muhammad Babar
Postdoctoral Researcher

Matthew Barker
Researcher in Space Radiation Environment and Effects

Dr Miranda Bradshaw
Space Qualified Metrology Engineer in Space Metrology for Proba3 and LunaResource Missions (funded by KTP)

Ben Clewer
Research Fellow: Space Weather Model and System Developer

Dr Zhou Hao
Research Fellow in GNC for space robotic system (funded by EPSRC)

Dr Burak Karadag
Research Fellow

Nikos Mavrakis
Research Fellow

James Stubbing
Research Fellow in Electric Propulsion
Postgraduate research students
AI and robotics research

Pete Blacker
Next generation rover GNC

Sadra Bolourian Esfahani
Data fusion for industrial environment

Robert Skilton
Reconfigurable autonomy for nuclear energy fusion applications
Astrodynamics research

Dr Ery Fitrianingsih
Trajectory optimization based on primer vector theory
On board data handling research

Zakaria Bouhanna
Satellite traffic management using radio systems

Alaa Eddine Mazouz
Low-cost LIDAR/machine vision for close proximity operations
Remote sensing applications research

Lotfi Achiri
Maritime surveillance with synthetic aperture radar and automatic identification system

Abdelhakim Benoudjit
PhD student in remote sensing

Isa Chedi
Oil spill characterization for detection and monitoring of oil pollution in marine environment using SAR data

Max Rodger
Optimisation of data fusion of SAR and AIS datasets from NovaSAR-S

Salvatore Savastano
Uncertainty quantification in microwave synthetic aperture RADAR remote sensing data processing

Oualid Yahia
Multisensor data fusion for soil moisture content estimation
Sensors and platform systems research

Callum Middleton
Design, development and calibration of a miniature high radiometric precision hyperspectral imager for CubeSat/NanoSat constellations and small low-cost UAVs
Spacecraft structures and mechanisms research

Cameron Hodge
Investigation of parameters affecting the microvibration signature of reaction wheel bearings

Eng Benjamin Kawak
Mechanical design of a two-stage viscoelastic isolation system for space applications

Jason Shore
Postgraduate Research Student