IVAN S. TKACHENKO

Deputy Rector, Director of Aerospace Engineering Institute

Samara National Research University

Research Interest: Design and control of small satellites, mission design of multi-satellite constellations, dynamics and control of satellites with electric propulsion on very low Earth orbit, robotic production of small satellites, space systems analysis

Short Biography: Dr. Ivan S. Tkachenko is the director of the Institute of Aerospace Technology. He also heads the Advanced Aerospace Engineering School "Integrated Technologies in the Creation of Aerospace Engineering", established at Samara University in 2022. From 2013 to 2023, he worked as a leading researcher at the Space-Rocket Center “Progress” (Samara, Russia), being the responsible executor of projects for the creation of small satellites for scientific, educational and experimental purposes of the “AIST” series. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal papers, including 43 indexed in the Scopus database. He is the author of 3 monographs and 20 patents for inventions. Dr. Tkachenko is a member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky, as well as the Academy of Navigation and Control. He is a laureate of the Yuri Gagarin Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of space activities for 2021.