Welcome to the Imperial Space Lab Network of Excellence
The Imperial College Space Lab Network of Excellence brings together all of Imperial’s activities in space in a coordinated way for the benefit of its members, the College, and society at large.
Space Lab is designed to:
- provide synergy, making it easier for its members to achieve common individual goals and needs
- enhance existing activities by enabling new opportunities, projects and successes that would not be accessible to a single research group acting on its own
- enable new capabilities in space research by engaging widely within the College and externally to encourage further cross-disciplinary work
The primary objectives of Space Lab are to enable:
- A vibrant and energetic community of people working in space
- Delivery of world-leading collaborative space research
- A clear external voice for Imperial to government and policy-makers
- Being the go-to academic partner for industry because of its reputation for understanding and solving their problems
- Meaningful Continuing Professional Development for the wider space community, both nationally and internationally
- A vigorous programme of societal and community outreach
Space Lab Steering Committee
The Space Lab Steering Committee is the internal leadership team, drawn from across the College. Members provide a range of expertise from across job families including academic research and teaching, and professional services. This allows Space Lab to operate more effectively for the benefit of the College as a whole.
| Name | Title | Department/Division |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. Jonathan Eastwood (Director) | Professor of Space Physics | Physics |
| Prof. Enrico Biffis | Associate Professor of Actuarial Finance | Business School |
| Prof. Helen Brindley | Professor in Earth Observation | Physics |
| Dr Michel Alexandre Cardin | Senior Lecturer in Computational Aided Engineering | Dyson School of Design Engineering |
| Prof. Deeph Chana | Co-Director, Institute for Security Science and Technology | Institute for Security Science and Technology |
| Prof. Michael Damzen | Professor of Experimental Laser Physics | Physics |
| Dr Edward Gryspeerdt | Royal Society University Research Fellow | Grantham Institute |
| Prof. Deniz Gunduz | Professor in Information Processing | Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Dr Fouzia Khan | Senior Teaching Fellow | National Heart and Lung Institute |
| Dr Aaron Knoll | Reader in Spacecraft Engineering | Aeronautics |
| Prof. Washington Ochieng | Professor in Positioning and Navigation Systems | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Prof. Matthew Santer | Professor of Aerospace Structures | Aeronautics |
| Prof. Mark Sephton | Professor of Organic Geochemistry | Earth Science and Engineering |
| Dr Sophie Armstrong-Brown | Head of Research Strategy and Development | Faculty of Natural Sciences |
| Hayley Dunning | Science Communications Lead | Communications |
| Dr Simon Foster | Outreach Officer | Physics/ Faculty of Natural Sciences |
| Viraj Perera | Director of Industry Partnerships/Commercialisation | Enterprise / Faculty of Natural Sciences |
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