Personnel

Steven Berg, PhD

Dr. Berg has served as Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University since 2023. He has previous industry experience as CEO of a small business focused on small satellite propulsion research and development, and as a propulsion and test engineer at SpaceX. He earned his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2015 for his work in multimode spacecraft propulsion. He has co-authored more than 40 publications and presentations and two patents.

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Dhrumil Soni, Pre-Candidate

Project: Experimental Measurements of Momentum Exchange and Drag Force in the VLEO Flight Regime

Nipun Wijesinghe, Pre-Candidate

Project: Numerical Simulation of Gas-Surface Interactions Relevant to VLEO Flight

Momo Taylor, Jr., Pre-Candidate, Dean’s Fellowship

Project: Improved Plasma Sources to Simulate Deeper into the VLEO Flight Regime

Alex Bryan-Jones, JJ Slade Scholar

Project: CO-Balanced Electric Solid Propellants

Sean Connolly, JJ Slade Scholar

Project: Qualification of Novel Monopropellants for Spaceflight

Cameron Matulewski

Project: Design of a Very Small Modular Reactor for Nuclear Small Satellite Propulsion

Ethan Oliva, JJ Slade Scholar

Project: High-Power Electric Propulsion with Positron Augmentation

Rebecca Fabian, JJ Slade Scholar

Project: Performance of Hall Thrusters Operating with Decomposed Monopropellants

Kael Jespersen, JJ Slade Scholar

Project: Catalytic Microtube Reactors for Injection of Energetic Monopropellants in Electric Propulsion Devices

Patrick Czachor

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