Committees iSpaRo

Conference Board of iSpaRo 2026

General Chair: Dr.-Ing. Armin Wedler, DLR, Germany
General Co-Chair: Prof. Miguel Olivares-Mendez, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
General Co-Chair: Thomas Wolf, German Space Agency at DLR, Germany

General Co-Chair: representative of iSpaRo 2027 tbd

Programme Chair: Dr. Máximo A. Roa, DLR, Germany
Programme Co-Chair: Carlos Perez del Pulgar, UMA – Malaga, Spain

Workshop Chair: Dr. Teresa Vidal Calleja, UTS, Australia

Workshop Co-Chair: Dr. Neal Y. Lii, DLR, Germany

Award Chair: Prof. Rudolph Triebel, DLR, Germany
Award Co-Chair: Prof. Genya Ishigami, Keio University, Japan

Exhibition Chair: Martin Azkarate, ESA, Netherlands

Diversity inclusion, future Generation Chair: Dr. Carol Martinez, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

International Programme Committee

International Programme Committee members

Abhishek Cauligi, Johns Hopkins University

Amir Rahmani, NASA/JPL

Carlos-Perez del Pulgar, University of Malaga

Carol Martinez, University of Luxembourg

Caroline Specht, DLR

David Rodríguez-Martínez, University of Malaga

Fernando Ruiz, University of Sevilla

Genya Ishigami, Keio University

Halil Ersin Soken, Middle East Technical University

Ignacio Lopez Francos, NASA

Kenji Nagaoka, Kyushu Institute of Technology

Kentaro Uno, Tohoku University

Krzysztof Skonieczny, Concordia University

Manu Nair, University of Manchester

Maximo A. Roa, DLR

Miguel Olivares, University of Luxembourg

Mini C. Raj, Orbit Rise

Neal Y. Lii, DLR

Raj Thilak Rajan, Delft University of Technology

Rudolph Triebel, DLR

Sofia Coloma, University of Luxembourg

Takao Maeda, Tokyo University of Agriculture

Teresa Vidal-Calleja, University of Technology Sydney

Thierry Peynot, Queensland University of Technology

Yang Gao, Honk Kong University of Science and Technology

Yasmin Tauqeer Ansari, Italian Institute of Technology

Zachary Manchester, Carnegie Mellon University