Pascale Ehrenfreund, recipient of the WIA-E Outstanding Achievement Award 2020, shares her thoughts on effective support strategies for women, networking, and her personal involvement in promoting gender diversity. WIA-E: Why did you choose a career in the aerospace industry, and how did you get here P.E.: I hold a Master degree in Molecular Biology, […]
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AMSTERDAM, 20 May 2020. – Women in Aerospace Europe (WIA-E) announces Dr. Pascale Ehrenfreund as the winner of the Outstanding Achievement Award 2020. The annual WIA-E Outstanding Achievement Award acknowledges exceptional technical or scientific achievements and dedication to the advancement of women in the aerospace field. This year, WIA-E is honoured to present the Austrian
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Ms Khan is first author of the paper “Leveraging Additive Manufacturing to Enable Deep Space Crewed Missions”. Her paper has been accepted for oral presentation at the upcoming International Astronautical Congress (IAC) Conference in Washington DC. At the same Congress, she will also present another paper that she has co-authored on “Single Bubble Sonoluminescence Microgravity
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Shambo Bhattacharjee is a final year PhD research student at the University of Leeds, UK. The theme of his research is space debris and the objective is to develop improved methods to track space debris based on directional statistics. He is in the department of Statistics and his supervisor is Prof. John T. Kent. The
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Harriet Brettle is a business analyst at Astroscale where she is working to develop a commercial solution to the threat of space debris. She has also been an active member of the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) – a global non-profit that supports students and young professionals connect to the wider space industry – since
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Eleonor Frost is a recent graduate of UCL with a BSc Hons degree in Physics and Medical Physics. A background in physics and engineering has led to a keen interest in Aviation and Aerospace medicine. This was nurtured during a visit to the RAF Centre for Aviation Medicine and further by the teaching and mentoring
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Greta De Marco, former ESA trainee, is currently a spacecraft operations engineer working for SCISYS (Darmstadt, Germany). She graduated in 2018 at Politecnico di Milano, where she studied space engineering. While at university she spent a semester abroad in Spain at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and she took part to different space-related summer schools.
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Merel Vergaaij is a PhD student in Space and Exploration Technologies at the University of Glasgow. She holds a BSc (Aerospace Engineering) and MSc (Space Exploration) from Delft University of Technology. Her PhD focuses on the integration of economic modelling and trajectory optimization to assess the profitability of Near-Earth Asteroid mining. During her MSc, she
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Veronica Bandini Veronica Bandini was born in Rome on the 14th of May 1996, and at the time of her application was studying aerospace engineering at “Sapienza” University of Rome. On the academic year 2016/2017 she worked with the Sapienza Space Team. This is part of the Sapienza Aerospace Student Association, which is a student
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Aloisia Russo At the point of application, Aloisia is a final year of MSc in Space Engineering student at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy). Her career is focused on re-entry subsystems, in fact, she was the head of the Recovery System Department in the Skyward Experimental Rocketry association from 2013 to 2017. After that experience,
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