INRIA, Université Côte d'Azur, France
Lamberto Dell'Elce is a researcher in the McTAO team at Inria, which he joined in 2017. He obtained a M.S. from both the University of Liège and Politecnico di Milano in 2011 and completed his PhD at the University of Liège in 2015.
He was then a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Celestial and Spaceflight Mechanics laboratory during 2016. His main research interests are optimal control, uncertainty quantification, and orbital mechanics.
University of Augsburg, Germany
Urs Frauenfelder is a full professor in the Analysis and Geometry group at the University of Augsburg, which he joined in 2014. He completed his PhD at ETH Zürich in 2003, and subsequently held research and academic positions in Japan, Germany, and Korea.
His research focuses on symplectic and contact geometry, particularly Floer homology and its applications to Hamiltonian dynamics and celestial mechanics. In particular, in 2018, he published the book The Restricted Three-Body Problem and Holomorphic Curves with Otto van Koert.
Independent researcher, USA
Dayung Koh is a Mission Design and Navigation Engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who has who has obtained her doctorate from the University of Southern California in 2016. She has since focused on gaining a deeper, systematic understanding of how families of spacecraft orbits relate to one another in complex planetary systems.
She was one of the pioneers in trying to bridge the gap between space mission design and abstract techniques from symplectic geometry, and has contributed to a number of publications at the intersection of the fields, as well as on topics such as attitude dynamics, orbit cataloguing, &c.
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Agustin Moreno is a junior professor in the Geometry + Dynamics research station, at the University of Heidelberg, which he joined in 2022 following a visitor position at the IAS, Princeton, and a number of post-doctoral positions in Sweden and Germany.
His work focuses on contact and symplectic geometry, notably their applications to classical physics and space sciences (astrodynamics, space mission design,...), with a focus on the Spatial Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem. His research is currently supported by the DFG (German Research Foundation), and the US AFOSR (Air Force Office of Scientific Research), amongst others.
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Dan Scheeres is a distinguished professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. He earned his PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and, before joining Colorado in 2008, worked both as a senior member of the technical staff at Jet Propulsion Laboratory and as a faculty member at Iowa State University and the University of Michigan.
His research focuses on astrodynamics, celestial mechanics, and spacecraft navigation, particularly the dynamics of small bodies such as asteroids and their applications to planetary missions. Scheeres is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and he has served as a co-investigator and lead scientist on NASA missions including OSIRIS-REx.
Surrey Space Centre
Arthur Limoge is a symplectic geometer by formation, who recently completed his PhD at the University of Heidelberg, on Wrapped Floer Homology in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem, with Agustin Moreno.
He is now a post-doctoral researcher at the Surrey Space Centre, on a London Mathematical Society early career fellowship, and is working with Nicola Baresi on the popularisation of symplectic tools in astrodynamics, and on policy perspectives.
Surrey Space Centre
Nicola Baresi is a senior lecturer in Orbital Mechanics at the Surrey Space Centre, whose research focuses on spacecraft dynamics, formation flying, guidance, navigation, and control.
He earned his PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder, and went on to occupy various research positions, notably at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), before joining the University of Surrey and taking the lead of the STAG (Space Trajectory Analysis Group).
School of Mathematics & Physics
David J. B. Lloyd is a Professor of Mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Surrey, where he leads research in nonlinear pattern formation, mathematical modelling and their applications to criminology, data science and space systems.
He was notably the recipient of the 2024 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics T. Brooke Benjamin Prize, and co-founder and co-director of the Surrey Centre for Criminology
Header picture: RemoveDebris mission, Surrey Space Centre