Who are our new faculty?
- They are researchers, educators, and business leaders.
- Bring the department new research opportunities and partnerships.
- Have diverse backgrounds and come to Boulder from near and far.
- Are proud additions to the Smead Aerospace and CU Buffs family.
Bobby Hodgkinson
Bobby graduated from the CU Boulder Aerospace Engineering department with a BS/MS degree before working at the University of Florida on small autonomous underwater and aerial vehicle controls and design.
He has always been a believer in hands-on experiential learning and the development and cultivation of engineering intuition to accompany and enhance theoretical understanding.
Marcus Holzinger
Professor Holzinger's creative efforts addressing autonomy, controls & dynamical systems, decision support, and perception focus on a scholarly `theory to hardware' approach, wherein theoretical investigations are confirmed through empirical observations of on-orbit space objects. To accomplish this, he has constructed Raven-Class Space Situational Awareness telescopes (GT- SORT), the Omnidirectional Space Situational Awareness (OmniSSA) Array, and is PI for an Air Force CubeSat program (RECONnaissance of Space Objects, RECONSO).
Morteza Lahijanian
Morteza has made his way to Boulder in a journey through the east, west, and south of the US and central UK. The main theme of his research is safety and soundness, and the emphasis is on safe automation through correct-by-construction algorithmic approaches. Morteza's work involves integrating control theory and formal methods to form powerful frameworks that enable autonomy in achieving complex tasks through high-level decision making with the awareness of low-level complexities and constraints of physical systems. For more information, visit www.MortezaLahijanian.com.
John Mah
I received my BS in Aeronautical Engineering from the US Air Force Academy and MS in Aerospace Engineering from Stanford University. I’m joining the faculty of the Aerospace Engineering Sciences department as an instructor after a 20 year career in the Air Force where I served as an intelligence officer and instructor. My experience includes serving as the course director of the senior aircraft design course at the Academy and teaching at the US Air Force’s advanced weapons & tactics school.
Hank Scott
Hank Scott served as an Naval Aviator/Officer in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) for 15 years flying fixed and rotary wing aircraft at 3 squadrons. He has worked as a Test Pilot Instruction at the National Test Pilots School in Mojave, Avionics/Weapons Systems Flight Test and Human Factors Design at Sikorsky and Flight Test at Adam Aircraft.
He holds Masters in Flight Test Science, Aviation Management and Human Factors Engineering. He is CEO of Molon Labe Aerospace and is a Knight of the Order of Merit - Maritime awarded for actions whilst serving in the RAN.
Mark Sirangelo
Mark was most recently the head of Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Space Systems and formerly the Chairman & CEO of SpaceDev, Inc. He is the Chairman Emeritus of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, an Associate Fellow of the The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and has been inducted into the NASA/Space Foundation’s Technology Hall of Fame.
Mark currently serves on the the Colorado Energy Collaboratory Authority Board, is the founder and Chairman of eSpace, the Center for Space Entrepreneurship, and a founding Trustee of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Christopher Williams
Christopher uses radars to count the number and size of raindrops in thunderstorms. By understanding the time-space variation of raindrop populations we can better understand microphysical and dynamical processes occurring within clouds. Analyzing ground, airborne, and space-based radar observations will improve parameterizations used in regional and global weather prediction models. He holds a BS in Electronic Engineering from California Polytechnic State University and an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering, from Purdue and CU Boulder, respectively.
Kathryn Wingate
I am passionate about mentoring students, teaching engineering, and improving engineering curriculum. Prior to joining CU, I worked at NGAS as a materials failure analyst on a number of DoD satellite programs. I then went on to receive a PhD in mechanical engineering at CU Boulder, with a focus on material science and tissue engineering. From 2013 to 2018 I worked on the ME faculty at The Georgia Institute of Technology, teaching design courses and researching the flow of students through engineering curricula. I am delighted to join the CU AES team!