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Hanspeter Schaub

Dr. Hanspeter Schaub is the Alfred T. and Betty E. Look Professor of Engineering at the University of Colorado and is the current graduate chair of the aerospace engineering sciences department.  He has about 20 years of research experience, of which four years are at Sandia National Laboratories. His research interests are in nonlinear dynamics and control, astrodynamics, relative motion dynamics, as well as relative motion sensing.  This has led to about 116 journal and 168 conference publications, as well as a 3rd edition textbook on analytical mechanics of space systems. In the last decade he has developed the emerging field of charged astrodynamics.  Dr. Schaub has been the ADCS lead in the CICERO mission and the ADCS algorithm lead on a Mars Mission.   He has been awarded the H. Joseph Smead Fellowship,  the Provosts Faculty Achievement Award, the faculty assembly  award for excellence in teaching, as well as the Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award.