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People
Director
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Prof Guglielmo Aglietti
Space Institute Director
Aerospace structures and mechanisms, deployable structures
Academic and Professional Staff
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Prof Roberto Armellin
Professor Mechanical Engineering
Astrodynamics, guidance, navigation and control, space surveillance and tracking
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Dr Mark Battley
Associate Professor Engineering Science
Non-destructive inspection methods for materials and structures
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Dr Priyanka Dhopade
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Sustainable engineering across thermofluids, environmental engineering and te ao Māori
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Chris Jackson
Mission Operations Centre Director
Spacecraft operations infrastructure and mission operations.
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Dr Nicholas Rattenbury
Senior Lecturer in Physics
Optical communication and propulsion systems for nanosatellites, astrophysics
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Dr Thomas Dowling
Lecturer in Geospatial Science
Remotely sensed data: sensor development, field validation and downstream exploitation
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A Prof Oliver Sinnen
Associate Professor in Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering
Parallel Computing, Fault Tolerance and Robust Task Scheduling, Square Kilometre Array (SKA), FPGA Acceleration of Radio
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Dr Cody Mankelow
Professional Teaching Fellow, Associate Dean Postgraduate Taught
Sustainability, Life Cycle Assessment, Our group’s webpage: https://www.sustainablespaceinitiative.org/
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Dr Nicholas Kay
Lecturer/ Research Fellow
Aerodynamics, Autonomous Aerial Vehicles and Wind Tunnel Testing
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Jim Hefkey
Director – Auckland Programme for Space Systems (APSS)
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Emanuele Romano
National Satellite Test Facility Manager
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Catherine Qualtrough
Research Operations Manager
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Laila Sabardin
Research Operations Coordinator
Postgraduate Students
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Lorenzo Anoe
PhD student
New method to find Ballistic Capture trajectories. Continuation to Periodic Orbits and high-fidelity models
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Jakob Balkenhohl
PhD student
Low-power hollow cathodes in AF-MPDTs at high applied magnetic field strengths
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Annalisa Tresoldi
PhD student
Deployable structure for a Synthetic Aperture Radar antenna for small satellites
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Minduli Wijayatanga
PhD student
Trajectory optimisation and guidance using indirect and convex methods
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Chingiz Akniyazov
PhD student
Mixed Radar and Optical Initial Orbit Determination