New Space: Access to space - Basics

Annafederica Urbano serves as a professor in the Space Advanced Concept Laboratory at ISAE SUPAERO's Department of Control and Design of Aerospace Vehicles (DCAS) since 2019. Her expertise spans space propulsion and transportation systems, with a Ph.D. from La Sapienza University of Rome focused on methane liquid rocket engines' regenerative cooling systems. Her research specializes in numerical simulation of reactive and two-phase flows in liquid rocket engines, encompassing supercritical combustion, thermoacoustic instabilities, nucleate boiling in micro-gravity, two-phase compressible flows, transcritical fluids, and heat transfer deterioration. Her significant contributions to the field are evidenced by her authorship of over 40 journal and conference papers, including 16 ranked-A publications, establishing her as a leading authority in aerospace engineering and rocket propulsion systems.

Yves Gourinat brings extensive expertise in aerospace engineering, having spent seven years at Aerospatiale-Aircraft (now Airbus SAS) working on composite structures, followed by a decade as associate professor specializing in Launch Vehicle Dynamics and Human Spaceflight, including Soyuz-Mir training. In 2003, he established the nonlinear dynamics and shell-fluid interaction team at ISAE-SUPAERO, University of Toulouse, where he later served as Director of the Aeronautical-Astronautical Doctoral School and Deputy Director of the Clément Ader Institute. Since 2020, he has led the R&D group focused on future aircraft and biodynamics. His academic credentials include an ENSMA Engineering degree, a doctorate in Physics of Structures, and qualification as a Professor of Universities. His contributions to aerospace science encompass 162 internationally referenced scientific publications, earning him prestigious recognitions including the 2011 Frank J Malina Astronautics Medal from the International Astronautical Federation, appointment as Officer of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, and election as Corresponding Member of the Air & Space Academy.