I am originally from Madrid, although for some years I grew up in El Escorial, a small town nearby. In 2013 I enrolled at the University Carlos III of Madrid to pursue my Bachelor in Aerospace Engineering, with Minor in Aerospace Vehicles.  During my third year, I obtained an ERASMUS+ scholarship for a full academic year exchange programme, which I carried out at the University of Liège, Belgium. 

My interest for space mission design and trajectory optimization was born after attending a seminar on the topic. It would become my passion during my last year, when I carried out my bachelor thesis in collaboration with the Guidance, Navigation and Control Section of the European Space Agency. Under the supervision of Dr. Manuel Sanjurjo Rivo and with the help of Celia Yabar and Dr. Guillermo Ortega from ESA, I conducted research on impulsive and low-thrust optimal trajectories for asteroid mining missions. The perfect ending to this project came with receiving the highest grade for the thesis and with my participation in a contribution to the 7th International Conference on Astrodynamic Tools and Techniques (ICATT).

After that, I was awarded a scholarship to study a Master of Science at the University of Liège, where I conducted my master thesis at the Space Structures and Systems Laboratory (S3L) on mission analysis for the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission from JAXA. Upon graduation, I worked as a trainee at the Spanish National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA) back in Madrid.

In October 2021, I moved to Toulouse to pursue an Advanced Master in Space Systems Engineering at ISAE-SUPAERO, and I worked with Dr. Joan-Pau Sánchez Cuartielles on ballistic escape from the Earth-Moon system using Lunar flybys, which I presented at the Orbital Dynamics II session of the 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC) with the support of an ESA scholarship. 

Since then, I am a PhD student under Dr. Joan-Pau's Sánchez supervision working on the design of spacecraft trajectories for multi-target missions, particularly asteroid & moon tours of the Outer Planets. If you want to chat about astrodynamics, space exploration, history, stock markets or motorsport, please do reach out!