Space Systems & Mission Analysis Engineer
Mechanical and aerospace engineer focused on the intersection of spacecraft systems, orbital dynamics, autonomous and distributed architectures, and mission engineering.
M.Sc. Aerospace Engineering, Technical University of Munich.
My work has progressed from mechanical engineering and spacecraft structures into spacecraft systems, mission analysis and autonomous distributed spacecraft.
I am particularly interested in engineering problems where mission objectives, orbital dynamics, spacecraft architecture and autonomous decision-making interact.
My current direction is toward research and engineering in space systems, astrodynamics, spacecraft autonomy and exploration mission design, with the long-term objective of doctoral research and contribution to ambitious European space missions.
Developed and validated a framework for autonomous reconfiguration of distributed satellite systems, integrating orbital dynamics, decentralised decision-making, collision avoidance and multi-objective resource optimisation.
Designed a satellite test-bench architecture for free-space optical communication combining mechanical pointing hardware, sensors, mathematical modelling, PID control and Kalman-filter-based state estimation.
Contributed to the architecture and structural design of a 500 kg LEO–MEO radiation-monitoring spacecraft, including shielding, structural interfaces, solar-array mechanisms and multidisciplinary mass/stiffness/radiation trades.
Developed LEOP, commissioning and anomaly-resolution scenarios for graduate spacecraft-operations training and contributed to AOCS architecture, operating modes and system-level design for EventSAT.
My early spacecraft work combined structural design, orbital analysis, payload-interface engineering and CubeSat development — the point where mechanical engineering became space engineering.
I am interested in the next generation of spacecraft that must increasingly reason, coordinate and adapt rather than merely execute predetermined commands.
Current themes include distributed spacecraft systems, autonomous reconfiguration, formation flight, collision avoidance, mission optimisation, spacecraft systems engineering and exploration architectures.
Outside engineering, I spend much of my time around mountains, astrophotography, music, drawing and cinematography.
Somewhere between seeing the Milky Way from the Odisha coast as a teenager and studying spacecraft systems years later, space stopped being merely an interest. It became the direction in which I chose to keep building.