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 promoting the career advancement of the recipients. Investing in research careers like this is essential for nurturing the next generation of research leaders in Europe.
You can find the resolution here, published on March 14th, 2024.
Four of our team's contributions to the recent International Electric Propulsion Conference (IEPC2024) were awarded with a Best Paper distinction in their respective sessions. It is the recognition of hard work, with half of our submissions beeing awarded. The papers...
We are pleased to announce the publication of our new article "Data-driven sparse modeling of oscillations in plasma space propulsion" in the context of ZARATHUSTRA, published with Open Access. In this work, we present a novel algorithm to obtain data-driven models of...
Enrique Bello, member of the ZARATHUSTRA team, successfully defended his thesis "Analysis of turbulent transport in Hall-effect plasma thrusters". Apart from his thesis, his work resulted in 2 publications, one published and one submitted as a pre-print. We...