Phd in AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ENGINEERING

email: christian.circi@uniroma1.it
phone: +39 06/49919777
building: RM0076

Christian Circi is currently Associate Professor in Flight Mechanics in the Department of Astronautic, Electrical and Energy Engineering at “Sapienza University of Rome”. He graduated in Aeronautical (B.Sc.+M.Sc.) and Aerospace Engineering (M.Sc.) and pursued his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome. He worked as a researcher at the GMV (Grupo de Mecanica of Vuelo-Madrid), and is engaged in intensive consultancy activities for public companies and private industries. He is principal investigator for the Italian Space Agency project “Solar sail propulsion system”. He is Lecturer in "Interplanetary Trajectories", "Mathematical Methods for Aerospace Engineering" and “Flight mechanics of Launchers”, in the Master Degree course of Astronautical Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome. He is a lecturer in the second level Master course in "Space Transportation Systems". His principal research fields are: orbital mechanics, third-body and solar perturbations, interplanetary and lunar trajectories, solar sail, orbits for planetary observation and ascent trajectory of Launcher. C. Circi is the author of 153 scientific papers and Associate Editor for the scientific journals: "Aerospace Science and Technology”, “International Journal of Aerospace Engineering”, “Astrodynamics” and “Space: Science & Technolog”.