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Dr Shufan Wu, IAA Full Member, AIAA Associate Fellow, Chair Professor and the director of Smart Satellite Technology Centre (SSTC) at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China. He was graduated from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) in China with BSc, MSc, and PHD in 1990. He worked as an associate professor (1994) and full professor (1998) in NUAA, then he has spent 17 years in Europe working at the TU Braunschweig in Germany (1995-1996), TU Delft in Netherlands (1998-1999), Surrey University in UK (2000-2002), and the European Space Research and Technology Centre of the European Space Agency (2002-2013), working all the time in aerospace research and technologies. He also worked as the Chief engineer and manager of the China-French cooperated science satellite SVOM project and the STU-2 CubeSat mission during 2013-2017 in the Shanghai Engineering Centre for Microsatellites. He moved to SJTU in July 2017 as a chair professor. His main research topics cover the space science exploration, guidance, navigation and control of flight vehicle, satellite system engineering, micro/nano satellite technologies and application.
Dr Shufan Wu is the co-founder of the LandSpace Rocket Cooperate Ltd and the founder of the Beijing MinoSpace Satellite Technologies Ltd.
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