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Eduardo Ahedo Galilea

Eduardo Ahedo

Professor Eduardo Ahedo Galilea

E. Ahedo is Professor of Aerospace Engineering and holds a UC3M Chair of Excellence granted by Banco Santander. From 1982 to 2013, he developed his professional career at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He was a Fulbright Posdoctoral Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Along his career, he has been Visiting Professor at, Supaero (Toulouse), U. Pisa, U. Politécnica de Cataluña, and MIT.

His Doctoral Thesis was in the field of laser-plasma interaction for inertial confinement fusion. Then, he researched in ElectroDynamic Tethers (EDT) and was co-inventor with Profs. Sanmartín (UPM) and Martínez-Sánchez (MIT) of the non-coated EDT, now the standard design of this technology.  Since 1998, his research is focused on Electric Space Propulsion.

E. Ahedo is founder and director of the Equipo de Propulsión Espacial y Plasmas (EP2, https://ep2.uc3m.es; Plasmas and Space Propulsion Team), now constituted by more than 20 international researchers. Their research is on plasma thrusters and related science and technology problems, and it covers the whole circle of modeling, simulation, design, and testing. Main research topics are Hall effect thrusters, electrodeless radiofrequency thrusters, magnetic nozzles, plasma-wall interaction, and plasma instabilities. He has participated or been main PI in about 60 competitive (regional, national, and international) projects, standing out a significant number for the European Commission (FP7, H2020), the European Space Agency, and the and US AFOSR. These projects have fostered the development of productive collaborations with international research centers and aerospace companies.

E. Ahedo has supervised 12 PhD Theses and 8 more are in progress now. He has published over 80 articles in top journals, and more than 150 full articles in international conference proceedings. He has a patent with M. Merino on steerable magnetic nozzles. He is accredited with 6 research sexennials and 1 transfer sexennial.  His metrics in Scopus as of August 2021 are: h-index = 25, citations > 2300, average citations per year in the last 5 years > 190.