Faculty and Presenters
Programme Convener
Prof Peter Martinez SpaceLab, Department of Electrical Engineering, UCT
Faculty
Adj Prof Pierre Cilliers Researcher, SANSA Space Science, Hermanus and Department of Electrical Engineering, UCT
Dr Frank Eckardt Senior Lecturer, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, UCT
Assoc. Prof Jane English Head of the Professional Communication Studies and Services Department (PCS) in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Cape Town
Dr Annette Froehlich Resident Fellow, European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, SpaceLab, UCT
Prof Mike Inggs Radar and Remote Sensing Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, UCT
Dr Phil Janney Department of Geological Sciences, UCT
Hon Assoc. Prof Rene Laufer Dept of Electrical Engineering UCT and Head of CASPER Space Science Lab, Baylor University, Texas, USA
Visiting and Guest Lecturers: 2015 - 2016
Mr James Adams Deputy Chief Technologist, NASA Headquarters
Mr Mark Comninos Managing Director, MARCOM Aeronautics & Space (Pty) Limited
Mr Ken Davidian AST Director of Research and Program Manager for the FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation
Dr Pieter de Villiers Rheinmetall, South Africa
Dr Jeanine Engelbrecht Senior Researcher in the field of Synthetic Aperture Radar at the CSIR Meraka Institute
Dr Daniel Furst Head of External Relations for RUAG Space Switzerland since November 2009
Mr Keith Gottschalk Fulbright Scholar and former Head of Department of Political Studies at University of the Western Cape
Dr. Peter Jankowitsch was Permanent Representative to the United Nations (New York), the OECD and ESA in the Austrian Foreign Service and a member of the Austrian Federal Government (Minister of Foreign Affairs) and the Austrian Parliament. Pierre Lionnet Director of Research at EUROSPACE
Dr. Xavier Pasco (Doct. In Political Science- University of Paris-Sorbonne) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS) based in Paris
Prof Scott Madry University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Prof Joseph Pelton Director Emeritus, Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute, George Washington University, USA
Dr Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu Romanian Space Agency
Ms Carla Sharpe Square Kilometre Array Project Office, South Africa
Mr Ruediger Suess German Aerospace Center (DLR) German Remote Sensing Data Center
Dr Hannes Taubenböck German Aerospace Center (DLR) German Remote Sensing Data Center
Dr Henry Throop Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute, USA and Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Mr Jean-Jacques Tortora Secretary General of ASD-Eurospace
Prof Ray WIlliamson Senior Advisor and former Executive Director, Secure World Foundation, USA