Eduardo Ahedo (Professor)
Lines of work: Hall effect thrusters, RF-based plasma thrusters, magnetic nozzles, plasma plumes,
plasma-wall interaction, plasma instabilities, active debris removal, electrodynamic tethers
Mario Merino (Associate Professor)
Lines of work: Magnetized and un-magnetized plasma jet expansions, magnetic nozzles, plasma-wave interactions,
and space debris active removal
Pablo Fajardo (Associate Professor)
Lines of work: Hall effect thrusters, hybrid PIC-fluid simulations, experimental characterization of
plasma thrusters, plasma diagnostics, design of electric propulsion systems, fluid modeling
Jaume Navarro Cavallé (Post-doc researcher and Assistant Professor)
Lines of work: theoretical, numerical and experimental plasmas for space propulsion, helicon and Hall effect
thrusters, hollow cathodes
Filippo Cichocki (Post-doc researcher and Assistant Professor)
Lines of work: Plasma thruster plume interaction with the satellite, active debris removal, ion beam shepherd,
magnetized and un-magnetized plasma plumes, hybrid PIC-fluid simulations
PhD thesis: Analysis of the expansion of a plasma
thruster plume into vacuum.
Adrián Domínguez Vázquez (Post-doc researcher and Assistant Teacher)
Lines of work: Full-PIC and hybrid PIC/fluid modeling and simulation of Hall Effect Thrusters and plasma plumes
Jiewei Zhou (PhD student of the Spain's FPU scholarship program)
Lines of work: Helicon plasma thrusters, hybrid PIC-fluid simulations, magnetized plasmas plumes
Álvaro Sánchez Villar (PhD student of the Spain's FPU scholarship program)
Lines of work: Electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) plasma thrusters, waves in plasmas, ECR heating
Mick Wijnen (PhD student of the PIPF scholarship of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Lines of work: plasma diagnostics (electrostatic probes, spectroscopy, thrust balance),
helicon plasma thruster prototype testing and design (HPT05-M)
Scherezade Barquero (PhD student)
Lines of work: Pulsed Plasma Thrusters (PPT) modeling, design and testing
Jesús Perales Díaz (PhD student of the PIPF scholarship of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Lines of work: Ion optics, full-PIC simulations
Enrique Bello Benítez (PhD student of the Spain's FPU scholarship program)
Lines of work: Plasma instabilities, anomalous electron transport in Hall effect thrusters, existence and
stability of solitary waves
Marco Riccardo Inchingolo (PhD student)
Lines of work: Design and testing of Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) plasma thruster, plasma diagnostics
Pedro Jiménez Jiménez (PhD student of the PIPF scholarship of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Lines of work: Plasma-wave interaction, computational electrodynamics, Helicon and ECR plasma thrusters
Tatiana Perrotin (PhD student)
Lines of work: Design and test of a low power Hall thruster, plasma diagnostics and hollow cathodes
Alberto Marín (PhD student)
Lines of work: Hall effect thrusters, full PIC simulations and plasma-wall interaction
Davide Maddaloni (PhD student)
Lines of work: Modal data analysis of experimental and simulation data, fast plasma diagnostics
Alberto Modesti (PhD student)
Lines of work: Hall effect thrusters, hybrid PIC-fluid simulations of magnetized plasma plumes in laboratory and free space