Eduardo Ahedo (Full 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 (Full 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 (Visiting Professor)
Lines of work: theoretical, numerical and experimental plasmas for space propulsion, helicon and Hall effect
thrusters, hollow cathodes
Adrián Domínguez Vázquez (Visiting Professor)
Lines of work: Full-PIC and hybrid PIC/fluid modeling and simulation of Hall Effect Thrusters and plasma plumes
Jiewei Zhou (Margarita Salas Fellow)
Lines of work: Helicon plasma thrusters, hybrid PIC-fluid simulations, magnetized plasmas plumes
Scherezade Barquero (PhD student)
Lines of work: Pulsed Plasma Thrusters (PPT) modeling, design and testing
Jesús Perales Díaz (PhD student Early Career Researcher 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 Spain's FPU scholarship program)
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 of the Spain's FPU scholarship program)
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
Francisco de Borja de Saavedra Garcia del Río (PhD student)
Lines of work: Electrospray thrusters, concurrent mission analysis, performance characterization with direct diagnostics.
David Villegas Prados (PhD student)
Lines of work: Electrospray thrusters, indirect diagnostics.
Borja Bayón Buján (MSc student)
Lines of work: Data driven analysis, machine learning applied to plasma space propulsion.
Matteo Guaita (PhD student)
Lines of work: Hybrid PIC/fluid modelling of electron thermodynamics in plasma plumes
Davide Poli (PhD student)
Lines of work: Advanced 2D Fluid Modelling of Hall effect Thruster discharges