Spacecraft design and system engineering

Invited Lecturer

Professor Hiroyuki Koizumi 

Hiroyuki Koizumi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Advanced Energy and Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Tokyo, Japan where he directs the Space Propulsion Laboratory and led developments of micro-propulsion systems for microsatellites: Hodoyoshi-4, PROCYON, and EQUULEUS. In 2020, he started working as CTO at the space-propulsion startup Pale Blue Inc., that was founded by him and engineers who got Ph.D. at his lab. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science at JAXA from 2007 to 2011 where he was involved in Hayabusa 1 project and he was responsible for the operation of the ion engines mu-10 and the retrieval of the Hayabusa capsule at Woomera in Australia. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Keio University and an M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Tokyo.