Studio Director, Tutors, Lecturers and Guest Critics

Tutors, lecturers and guest critics in alphabetical order

Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger

Space Architect | Habitability Researcher

TU Vienna, HB2

Studio Director

Dr. Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger is senior lecturer at the Institute for Architecture and Design. Her teachings include design courses in space architecture and extreme environment architecture and a regular course on ‘Emerging Fields in Architecture’. She is an architect at space-craft Architektur and expert in habitability design solutions for extreme environments. She has worked and collaborated on several aerospace design projects. Sandra has published several scientific papers and is author of the books Architecture for Astronauts - An Activity Based Approach (Springer 2011) and Space Architecture Education for Engineers and Architects - Designing and Planning Beyond Earth (Springer 2016).

ESA

Tutor Space Architecture Workshop

Marlies Arnhof is a young graduate trainee in the field of Space Architecture and Infrastructure at ESA/ESTEC, where she is a member of the Advanced Concepts Team (ACT). She graduated from Vienna University of Technology with a MSc in Architecture. During her master’s with Dr. Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger, she focussed on architecture for extreme environments. For her paper on her diploma project Design of a Human Settlement on Mars Using In-Situ Resources she received the Best Student Paper 2016 Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA). At the ACT her main research interests are in-situ resource utilisation for construction on the lunar and planetary surfaces and user-architecturetechnology interaction in isolated, confined, extreme (ICE) environment research-bases.

Lecturer & Tutor Space Architecture

Miriam Dall‘Igna has experience in designing and researching complex structures for manufacturing and construction. She joined Foster+Partners in 2008 and has worked with additive manufacturing since then as one of her main design tools. Part of her tasks are the experimentation and implementation of state of the art software and hardware to architectural practice. She is currently focusing on the research of goal-oriented autonomous robotic systems and additive manufacturing for large scale construction in harsh environments. Her background is in architecture and computer science.

Lecturer Moon Village Workshop

Dr. Norbert Frischauf is currently a partner at SpaceTec Partners and co-founder and chief scientific officer of Off-World, Inc. Norbert is an accomplished technologist with a comprehensive insight in diverse industrial and scientific sectors including experimental physics, electrical engineering and aerospace engineering. As such he has worked at CERN, the European Space Agency (ESA), the German Aerospace Center (DLR), as well as several national government agencies across Europe and the European Commission (EC). Norbert is a leading member in various associations (such as IAA, OEWF), an active science communicator and a keen aerobatic pilot.

Lecturer Moon Village Workshop

Prof. Foing obtained his PhD in Astrophysics and Space Techniques. In 1993, he joined ESA as staff scientist, where his varied roles have included being a co-investigator for missions such as SOHO, Mars Express, Expose-Organics on ISS and COROT. He has been a project scientist for SMART-1, the first ESA spacecraft to travel to the Moon. He serves as executive director of the International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG), is professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and member of the IAA. He coordinated ILEWG design studies and field campaigns to support the preparation to future bases on the Moon and Mars.

Tutor Moon Facts

Dr. Gernot Groemer is the director of the Austrian Space Forum; he is an alumni of the International Space University and holds a PhD in Astrobiology. He teaches at the University of Innsbruck in the field of Mars exploration and Astrobiology. Moreover, he is a lecturer at various universities and is a member of the Board of Mentors of the Space Generation Advisory Council. Gernot is an active analog astronaut at the Austrian Space Forum logging 113 simulated EVA-hours and a total of 30 min of zero-gravity. He led more 13 Mars expedition simulations and coordinates the development of the experimental spacesuit simulator Aouda.X.

David Kendall Physicist | ISU faculty member

Guest Critic Final Presentation

Dr. Kendall is the past chair of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (2016-2017). During his career he has held senior positions with the Canadian Space Agency including as the director general of Space Science and Space Science and Technology. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the International Space University based in Strasbourg, France. He holds an undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Swansea, UK, and masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Calgary in Atmospheric Physics. In 2002, Davidl was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in recognition of his significant contributions and achievements to Canada.

Panelist Final Presentation

Dr. Christian Köberl is director general of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. He is also full professor and chair of Impact Research and Planetary Geology at the University of Vienna. Christian Köberl is a well-known reseacher with his investigations of meteorite impact craters and the determination of extraterrestrial components in impact-related rocks. In 2006, an asteroid was named after him. He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and has published over 450 peer-reviewed research publications. Since his involvment, the Natural History Museum has increased the quality and visibility of scientific research at the museum.

Lecturer Life Support Systems

Dr. Christophe Lasseur is the European Space Agency coordinator of life support R&D activities, head of MELiSSA project and ESA representative of the International Space Station medical board: microbial safety. He is also an ECLSS certified instructor for European astronauts and has a PhD in BioEngineering from Compiegne University of Technology. From 2000 to 2010, he chaired the International Life Support Working Group, which involved NASA, JAXA, CSA, RSA and ESA. Since 2012 he chairs the life support sessions (F4) of COSPAR. He regularly teaches in several European engineering schools (e.g. KTH, EPFL, Agro-Paris). In March 2017, he received a Doctor Honoris Causa from Antwerpen University (Belgium).

Lecturer Space Law

Prof. Irmgard Marboe is professor of international law at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna. She is the head of the Austrian National Point of Contact (NPOC) for Space Law of the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL) and member of the Space Law Committee of the International Law Association. From 2008 to 2012, she was the chair of the Working Group on National Space Legislation of the Legal Subcommittee of UN Committee for the Peaceful Use of Outer Space. She authored and co-authored numerous books and articles on space law. She was a founding member and legal advisor of the Moon Village Association, which was established in Vienna in November 2017.

Lecturer Moon Village Vision

Piero Messina has been working on the ESA’s space exploration programme Aurora since its inception. In 1991, he joined the European Space Agency, where he held several positions in the field of financial and project management. He served as coordinator with the director of Industrial Matters and Technology Programmes. He was responsible for education policies and relations with European higher education institutions until 2003. He holds a degree in Political Science, International Economic Relations from the University of Florence and a Master in Space Studies (MSS) from the International Space University in Strasbourg. Currently he works in the Director General’s Cabinet and ESA’s Strategy Department.

Dr. Rumi Nakamura, a group leader at the Space Research Institute (IWF), the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a docent at University of Graz, participated in a number of ESA and NASA physics missions and is currently leading the Active Spacecraft Potential Control (ASPOC) instrument for the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. She is an author of more than 360 refereed publications and was awarded the Tanakadate Award in 2005 and the Julius-Bartels Medal in 2014. In 2018, she was elected the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fellow. She currently is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Academy of Astronautics. She worked on ideas for the Deep Space Gateway, a crewed spaceship in lunar vicinity.

David Nixon was among a handful of architects to work on the early design of the Space Station in the mid-1980s. He has worked on many space and transportation projects for clients, ranging from government agencies to cities, private companies and start-up ventures in the US and Europe, including NASA, ESA, JPL, British Aerospace, Alenia Spazio, McDonnell Douglas, Spacehab, Kistler Aerospace Corp. and Rotary Rocket Company. In 2007, he designed a physics experiment kit to boost student interest in space and flew a prototype on ESA’s Foton-3 mission and a simulated zero-g Airbus flight. He has authored many technical space papers and written a book on the design history of the ISS, titled International Space StationArchitecture beyond Earth (Circa Press, 2016).

Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu Cosmonaut | ASE Panelist Final Presentation

Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu is a Romanian cosmonaut and flew into space aboard the Soyuz 40 and Salyut 6 laboratory. He was a founding member of the Association of Space Explorers and was elected for a three year term as the president of ASE International. Since 1993, he has been the permanent representative of the Association of Space Explorers at the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) sessions. In 2004, he was elected as chairman. For his engagement in raising public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard and help protecting planet Earth, he was declared 1st Official Asteroid Day Ambassador. He has received several high-ranking awards, including the Social Sciences Award of the International Academy of Astronautics.

Lecturer Life in Space

Franz Viehböck is the assigned CEO of Berndorf AG for 2020. He is also a scientist and Austria‘s first cosmonaut. Franz Viehböck studied electrical engineering at the TU Vienna and was selected to serve as the first Austrian astronaut aboard the Austromir 91 mission. Subsequently, he worked for Rockwell as programme-Development manager of the Space-Systems-Division and for Boeing as director for international business development of the Space Systems Group. Since 2000, he is also the technology consultant of the province of Lower Austria. He has been working for the Austrian company Berndorf since 2002, where he currently is a member of the board of directors.

Additional Acknowledments

We would like to thank the following experts for supporting the work of individual students:

Manuela Aguzzi, astronaut instructor, at Space Applications Services, for her input on astronaut training activities.

For providing research input related to plant and greenhouse research: Don Barker, planetary scientist. Marc Cohen, spacearchitect. Vittori Rossetti, space engineer. Tomas Rousek, spacearchitect.

Franz Kerschbaum, professor of astronomy at the University of Vienna for his input on astronomy on the far side of the Moon.

Claudio Maccone, director for scientific space exploration, International Academy of Astronautics, for providing his papers on The Lunar Farside Telescope