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