Yehia Abdel-Aziz
Professor of Space Flight Dynamics and Control
National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics
Egypt
Biography
Yehia Abdel-Aziz is Full Professor of Space Flight Dynamics and Control at Solar and Space Research Department, NRIAG, Egypt. He was the Secretary General of the National Egyptian Committee of Space Research for COSPAR since February 2005 up to 2014. He is the founder of the Spacecraft Charging Laboratory at NRIAG, Egypt. He is leading two different teams working in orbital and attitude control, and Spacecraft charging. He received the B. Sc. Degree in Applied Mathematics (1991) and MSc. in Attitude Dynamics of spacecraft (1998) from Mansoura University, Egypt. In December 2002 he received his PhD in orbital Mechanics from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. He is also a Visiting Scholar at Laboratory of Spacecraft Environment Interaction Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT), Japan, UNESP, Brazil and CETP, Paris- France. He published more than 33 papers in reputable journals. His area of interest: Attitude dynamics and control of spacecraft, orbital mechanics, Formation Flying satellite, space Debris and spacecraft charging. He is the PI for three projects and member of other four projects.
Research Interest
Attitude dynamics and control of spacecraft, orbital mechanics, Formation Flying satellite, space Debris and spacecraft charging.