Welcome to Cristóbal's site

Cristóbal is a Ph.D. in Space Systems graduated from Luleå University of Technology (LTU) in 2021. His research focused on Concurrent Engineering of Small Satellites using Hardware-In-the-Loop simulations. Some of his space projects include the missions QB50, APTAS and KvarkenSat. Additionally, he has collaborated with other universities such as University of Rome La Sapienza, Cranfield University, University of Vaasa, Aalto University, Umeå University, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, etc.

He obtained his second degree studies in Aerospace engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), in 2011. He started working in the space industry at ISISpace, in The Netherlands, as a member of the ADCS group designing and prototyping a magnetometer module and a deployable boom. At that time, he also contributed in the debugging phase of an in-house developed satellite simulator. He consolidated his career trajectory in the nanosatellite sector when he joined SolarMEMS Technologies, in Spain, as Mechanical Engineer and Systems Engineer. On that occasion, he assumed the Manufacturing, Assembly, Integration and Verification tasks for mission CEPHEUS. He additionally performed as a consultant to the payload developers of that same mission.

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