PhD Thesis Defense – Abolfazl Simorgh

On the 24th September, the defense of the doctoral thesis of our student, Abolfazl Simorgh, shall take place. Abolfazl will be presenting his thesis titled “Robust Aircraft Trajectory Optimization and Climate Change” which was diligently conducted under the guidance of Manuel Soler (UC3M). Below, you will find all the pertinent details to attend this auspicious occasion: Date: 24th … Continue reading PhD Thesis Defense – Abolfazl Simorgh

PhD Thesis Defense – Amin Jafarimoghaddam

On the 20th September, the defense of the doctoral thesis of our student, Amin Jafarimoghaddam, shall take place. Ami will be presenting his thesis titled “Perturbed-Analytic Direct transcription for Optimal Control (PADOC) with Application in Commercial Aircraft Trajectory Optimization” which was diligently conducted under the guidance of Manuel Soler (UC3M). Below, you will find all the pertinent … Continue reading PhD Thesis Defense – Amin Jafarimoghaddam

PhD Thesis Defense – Giuseppe Di Pasquale

On the 18th July, the defense of the doctoral thesis of our student, Giuseppe Di Pasquale, shall take place. Giuseppe will be presenting his thesis titled “Design of Optimal Attitude and Orbit Control Systems for Multi-Purpose Electrospray Micro-Propulsion Missions” which was diligently conducted under the guidance of Manuel Sanjurjo Rivo (UC3M) and Sara Correyero Plaza (ienai SPACE). Below, you … Continue reading PhD Thesis Defense – Giuseppe Di Pasquale

PhD Thesis Defense – Enrique Bello

On the 15th July, the defense of the doctoral thesis of our student, Enrique Bello, shall take place. Enrique will be presenting his thesis titled “Study of the turbulent transport in Hall-effect plasma thrusters” which was diligently conducted under the guidance of Eduardo Ahedo (UC3M). Below, you will find all the pertinent details to attend this … Continue reading PhD Thesis Defense – Enrique Bello

PhD Open Position AERO-PhD-24-02-Intelligent MeteorologicalAviation

Position description: The successful candidates will join the Dynamics and Control in Aerospace Systems Lab, within the Aero Research Group. In particular, they will work in the aircraft operations lab with Prof. Manuel Soler, Prof. Javier García-Heras, and María Cerezo.The duties of the new group members include: To pursue a PhD under the topic: Ref. … Continue reading PhD Open Position AERO-PhD-24-02-Intelligent MeteorologicalAviation

PhD Open Position AERO-PhD-24-01-FormationFlight

Position description: The successful candidates will join the Dynamics and Control in Aerospace Systems Lab, within the Aero Research Group. In particular, they will work in the aircraft operations lab with Prof. Manuel Soler, Prof. Javier García-Heras, and María Cerezo.The duties of the new group members include: To pursue a PhD under the topic: Ref. … Continue reading PhD Open Position AERO-PhD-24-01-FormationFlight

PhD Open Position ZARATHUSTRA-D7

Position description and objetives: Your PhD thesis will consist in the experimental development and characterization of electrodeless plasma thrusters with magnetized plasma expansions. The contract will be funded under the ERC Starting Grant project ZARATHUSTRA (Revolutionizing advanced electrodeless plasma thrusters for space transportation, erc-zarathustra.uc3m.es). The candidate will join the Plasma and Space Propulsion Team (EP2, … Continue reading PhD Open Position ZARATHUSTRA-D7

Doctoral Meetings 2024

Doctoral meetings are celebrated on a yearly basis and are one of the most important activities of the doctoral program in Aerospace Engineering at UC3M.It consists of short presentations and poster sessions from all the PhD students enrolled in the program, followed by a short discussion.The doctoral meetings are an opportunity for our students to … Continue reading Doctoral Meetings 2024

PhD Open Position HUMANIC_24-05

Background The HumanIC network aims to build a new approach to hospital environmental design through the concept of a human-centric indoor climate. The HumanIC network will bring together leading academic teams from across Europe with hospital and healthcare HVAC industry partners to train early-stage engineers and scientists to enable a new approach to the human-centric … Continue reading PhD Open Position HUMANIC_24-05

PhD Open Position E.T.COMPACT_24-04

Background: The E.T.PACK Initiative, coordinated by UC3M, has been funded by the European Innovation Council (EIC) with the EIC Pathfinder E.T.PACK project (2019-2022, 3M€) and the EIC Transition E.T.PACK-F project (2022-2025) to develop a deorbit device based on bare electrodynamic tether technology. The device will be in- orbit demonstrated in 2025. Recently, the EIC granted … Continue reading PhD Open Position E.T.COMPACT_24-04