This May ZARATHUSTRA’s P.I. Mario Merino was appointed as Adjunct Vice Rector for Inovation, Technology Transfer and Science Park. This position allows him to play an active role on issues related to the research activity of teaching and/or research staff, transfer of research results, entrepreneurship and innovation, research ethics, university research institutes, scientific-technological park, open science and scientific dissemination.
On March 2nd, 2024, Mario Merino, PI of the ZARATHUSTRA project, was appointed as Full Professor (Catedrático de Universidad) of Aerospace Engineering at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. This accomplishment highlights the significance of ERC Starting grants in...
Our new research paper "Thrust measurements of a waveguide electron cyclotron resonance thruster" just got published in the Journal of Applied Physics. We are especially happy that it was also selected by the editor as "Editor's Pick"! For this work, direct thrust...
A new article, "Non-Maxwellian electron effects on the macroscopic response of a Hall thruster discharge from an axial–radial kinetic model", published on Plasma Sources Science and Technology is co-authored by Enrique Bello Benitez, member of the ZARATHUSTRA team. In...