Eduardo Ahedo (Full Professor)
Research lines: Modeling and simulation of plasma propulsion technologies: Hall effect thrusters, ion thrusters, electrodeless plasma thrusters and magnetic nozzles.
Plasma plumes: expansion and interaction with objects. Basic phenomena: instabilities, kinetic description, wall interaction.
Mario Merino (Associate Professor)
Research lines: Magnetized and un-magnetized plasma jet expansions, magnetic nozzles, plasma-wave interactions,
and space debris active removal
Pablo Fajardo (Full Professor)
Research lines: 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)
Research lines: Development and validation of plasma thrusters (Helicon, ECR, Hall). Design of plasma diagnostics
Adrián Domínguez Vázquez (Visiting Professor)
Research lines: Full-PIC and hybrid PIC/fluid modeling and simulation of Hall Effect Thrusters and plasma plumes
Jiewei Zhou (Margarita Salas Fellow)
Research lines: Helicon plasma thrusters, hybrid PIC-fluid simulations, magnetized plasmas plumes
Scherezade Barquero Balsera (PhD student)
Research lines: Pulsed Plasma Thrusters (PPT) modeling, design and testing
Jesús Perales Díaz (PhD student Early Career Researcher of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Research lines: Ion Optics, Hall Effect Thruster, Full PIC and hybrid PIC/fluid modelling
Enrique Bello Benítez (PhD student of the Spain's FPU scholarship program)
Research lines: Plasma instabilities, anomalous electron transport in Hall effect thrusters, existence and
stability of solitary waves
Marco Riccardo Inchingolo (PhD student)
Research lines: Design and testing of Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) plasma thruster, plasma diagnostics
Pedro Jiménez Jiménez (PhD student of the Spain's FPU scholarship program)
Research lines: Plasma-wave interaction, computational electrodynamics, Helicon and ECR plasma thrusters
Tatiana Perrotin (PhD student)
Research lines: Design and test of a low power Hall thruster, plasma diagnostics and hollow cathodes
Alberto Marín Cebrián (PhD student of the Spain's FPU scholarship program)
Research lines: Hall effect thrusters, full PIC simulations and plasma-wall interaction
Davide Maddaloni (PhD student)
Research lines: Modal data analysis of experimental and simulation data, fast plasma diagnostics
Alberto Modesti (PhD student)
Research lines: 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)
Research lines: Electrospray thrusters, concurrent mission analysis, performance characterization with direct diagnostics.
David Villegas Prados (PhD student)
Research lines: Electrospray thrusters, indirect diagnostics.
Borja Bayón Buján (MSc student)
Research lines: Data driven analysis, machine learning applied to plasma space propulsion.
Matteo Guaita (PhD student)
Research lines: Hybrid PIC/fluid modelling of electron thermodynamics in plasma plumes
Davide Poli (PhD student)
Research lines: Advanced 2D Fluid Modelling of Hall effect Thruster discharges
Andrés Rabuñal Gayo (MSc student)
Research lines: Solar wind, experimental physics and plasma-magnetic field interactions