{"id":155,"date":"2012-11-14T13:07:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T12:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/?page_id=155"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:08:22","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/?page_id=155","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who are the&nbsp;people&nbsp;behind the success of the different teams? While it is fair to credit the institutions as winners of the various editions, it is, at the end of the day, people that &nbsp;put their brains to&nbsp;accomplish&nbsp;the&nbsp;impossible. We list here the names of the people associated to the various teams:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GTOC13:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizers<\/strong>: Gregory Whiffen, Mark Wallace, Damon Landau, Etienne Pellegrini, Gregory Lantoine, Anastassios Petropoulos, Sungmoon Choi, Brian Anderson, Zubin Olikara, Jon Sims &#8211;&nbsp;<em>Jet Propulsion Laboratories<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winners<\/strong>: Jialong Song, Yuming Tao, Rundao Li, Yi Zhou, Yiyang Qin, Kinthong Lee, Yixuan Wu, Nan Zhang, Fanghua Jiang, and Hexi Baoyin &#8211; \u00a0<em>Tsinghua University, School of Aerospace Engineering<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2nd ranked<\/strong>: &nbsp;Dario Izzo, Giacomo Acciarini, Laurent Beauregard, Harry Holt, Leone Costi, Max Bannach, Sean Cowan, Marcus Maertens, Zhong Zhang, Yuri Shimane, Shota Ito, Chit Hong Yam &#8211; <em>ESA&#8217;s Advanced Concepts Team<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3rd ranked<\/strong>: Jack Yarndley, Daniel Clark, Adam Evans, Minduli Wijayatunga, Roberto Armellin, Xingyu Zhou, Luca Gao, Lee Violet Ong, Cristina Parigini, Alberto Foss\u00e0, Vishwas Jajpura, Nathan Wallace, William Zhou, Oliver Gwatkin, Marco Moschetta, Emanuele Nasini, Lorenzo Ano\u00e8 &#8211; <em>University of Auckland<\/em> and other affiliations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GTOC12<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizers<\/strong>: Zhong Zhang, Fanghua Jiang and Hexi Baoyin &#8211;&nbsp;<em>Tsinghua University, School of Aerospace Engineering<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winners<\/strong>: Anastassios Petropoulos and Gregory Lantoine, Austin Nicholas, Tim McElrath, Zubin Olikara, Sungmoon Choi, Etienne Pellegrini, Damon Landau, Drew Jones, Vishala Arya, Try Lam, Thomas Pavlak, Yuji Takubo, Quinn Kostelecky, CK Venigalla, Brian Anderson, Kenza Boudad, Mark Wallace, Dimitri Gerasimatos, and Jon Sims.&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em>Jet Propulsion Laboratories<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2nd ranked<\/strong>: Shengmao He, Chao Peng, Yang Gao, Changxuan Wen, Zhengfan Zhu and Yang Zhang<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3rd ranked<\/strong>: S\u00e9bastien Goulet, Vincent Debout, Patrice Mathieu, Vincent Cucchietti, Maxime Journot, Julien Asquier, Romain Garmier, Laur\u00e8ne Beauvalet, Thierry Ceolin, Laurent Chausson, Pascal Parraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GTOC11<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizers<\/strong>: Ya-Zhong Luo and Hong-Xin Shen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winners<\/strong>: Zhong Zhang,Nan Zhang,Xiang Guo,Di Wu,Xuan Xie,Jinyuan Li,Jia Yang,Shiyu Chen,Fanghua Jiang,Hexi Baoyin;Haiyang Li,Huixin Zheng,Xiaowen Duan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2nd ranked<\/strong>: Dario Izzo, Marcus M\u00e4rtens, Anne Mergy, Emmanuel Blazquez, Moritz van Looz, Pablo Gomez, Giacomo Acciarini, Chit Hong Yam, Javier Hernando Ayuso,Yuri Shimane &#8211; <em>ESA&#8217;s Advanced Concepts Team<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3rd ranked<\/strong>: Roberto Armellin, Laura Pirovano,Minduli Wijayatunga, Adam Evans, Alberto Fossa, Andrea Bellome, Thomas Caleb, Xiaoyu Fu, Danny Owen, Laurent Beauregard, Alex Wittig, Cristina Parigini, Joan-Pau Sanchez Cuartielles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GTOCX:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizers<\/strong>: Anastassios Petropoulos, Eric Gustafson, Gregory Whiffen, Brian Anderson&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em>Jet Propulsion Laboratories<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winners<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ya-Zhong Luo, An-Yi Huang, Yue-He Zhu, Peng Shu, Zhen-Jiang Sun, Zhen-Yu Li, Jian-Jun Shi, Bing Yan, Xiang-Nan Du, Zhen Yang, Jin Zhang &#8211; <em>College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hong-Xin Shen, Tian-Jiao Zhang, Zhao Li, Jian-Hui Li, Zheng-Zhong Kuai, Heng-Nian Li &#8211; <em>State Key Laboratory of Astronautic Dynamics, Xi&#8217;an Satellite Control Center<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2nd ranked<\/strong>: Haiyang Li, Shiyu Chen, Zhibo E, Yu Song, Yazhe Meng, Di Wu, Fanghua Jiang and Hexi Baoyin; Zheng Che and Songjie Hu &#8211; &nbsp;<em>Tsinghua University, School of Aerospace Engineering; XINGYI SPACE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3d ranked<\/strong>: Dario Izzo, Marcus M\u00e4rtens, Ekin \u00d6zt\u00fcrk, Mate Kisantal, Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Lu\u00eds Felismino Sim\u00f5es, Chit Hong Yam, Javier Hernando Ayuso &#8211; <em>ESA&#8217;s Advanced Concepts Team<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GTOC9:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizers<\/strong>:&nbsp;&nbsp;Dario Izzo &#8211; <em>ESA&#8217;s Advanced Concepts Team<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winners<\/strong>: Anastassios Petropoulos, Daniel Grebow, Drew Jones,<br>Gregory Lantoine, Austin Nicholas, Javier Roa, Juan Senent, Jeffrey<br>Stuart, Nitin Arora, Thomas Pavlak, Try Lam, Timothy McElrath,<br>Ralph Roncoli, David Garza, Nicholas Bradley, Damon Landau, Zahi<br>Tarzi, Frank Laipert, Eugene Bonfiglio, Mark Wallace, Jon Sims&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em>Jet Propulsion Laboratories<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2nd ranked<\/strong>: Liang Jun, Zhu Hai, Mu Shuai, Yue-He Zhu, Ya-Zhong Luo,<br>Zhang Jin &#8211; &nbsp;<em>College of Aerospace Science and Technology, National<\/em><br><em>University of Defense Technology<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3d ranked<\/strong>: Hong-Xin Shen, An-Yi Huang, Tian-Jiao Zhang, Zhao Li \u2013<em>&nbsp;State Key Laboratory of Astronautic Dynamics, Xi&#8217;an Satellite Control Center<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GTOC8:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizers<\/strong>:&nbsp;&nbsp;Anastassios E. Petropoulos<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winners<\/strong>:&nbsp;Dario Izzo, Daniel Hennes, Marcus M\u00e4rtens, Ingmar Getzner, Krzysztof Nowak, Anna Heffernan, Stefano Campagnola, Chit Hong Yam, Naoya Ozaki, and Yoshihide Sugimoto&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em>ESA&#8217;s Advanced Concepts Team and JAXA&#8217;s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2nd ranked<\/strong>:&nbsp;Fanghua Jiang, Hongwei Yang, Gao Tang &#8211;&nbsp;<em>School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3d ranked<\/strong> : Lorenzo Casalino, Dario Pastrone, Guido Colasurdo, Alessandro Zavoli, Christian Abbate, Andrea Manno,<br>Simone Sagratella, Alessandra Barco, Marco Berga, Valeria Catullo, Giorgio Fasano, Andrea D&#8217;Ottavio , Ludovico Garin, Davide Grana, Francesco Simeoni<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GTOC7:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizers<\/strong>:&nbsp;&nbsp;Lorenzo Casalino and Guido Colasurdo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winners<\/strong>:&nbsp;Anastassios E. Petropoulos, Daniel Grebow, Try Lam, Eric Gustafson, Mark Wallace, Nitin Arora, Damon Landau, Aline Zimmer, Mar Vaquero&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em>Jet Propulsion Laboratories<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2nd ranked<\/strong>:&nbsp;Dario Izzo, Daniel Hennes, Luis Felismino Simoes, Marcus Maartens, Chit Hong Yam, Stefano Campagnola, Hermani Heimonen &#8211;&nbsp;<em>ESA&#8217;s Advanced Concepts Team and JAXA&#8217;s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3d ranked<\/strong>: Ryan P. Russell and team members &#8211;&nbsp;<em>University of Texas at Austin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GTOC6:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizers<\/strong>:&nbsp;Anastassios E. Petropoulos<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winners<\/strong>:&nbsp;Lorenzo Casalino, Guido Colasurdo,&nbsp;Dario Pastrone, Francesco Simeoni, Francesca Letizia,&nbsp;Stefano Federici, Alessandro Longo, Alessandro Zavoli &#8211;&nbsp;<em>Politecnico di Torino and&nbsp;Universita` di Roma &#8220;Sapienza&#8221;,&nbsp;Dipertimenti di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2nd ranked<\/strong>:&nbsp;Dario Izzo, Luis Felismino Simoes&nbsp;, Aurelie Heritier, Guido de Croon, Marcus Marteens,&nbsp;Chit Hong Yam, Tsz Yan So, Kin Chiu Chu, Kai Yin Leung , Hermanni J. E. Heimonen, Kwing Lam Chan, Kwok Yee Michael Wong &#8211;&nbsp;<em>European Space Agency Advanced Concepts Team and&nbsp;Hong Kong University of Science and Technology<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3d ranked<\/strong>: Ryan P. Russell and team members &#8211;&nbsp;<em>University of Texas at Austin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GTOC5:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizers<\/strong>:&nbsp;Ilia S. Grigoriev and Maxim P. Zapletin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winners<\/strong>:&nbsp;Anastassios E. Petropoulos, Eugene P. Bon\ufb01glio, Daniel J. Grebow, Try Lam, Je\ufb00rey&nbsp;S. Parker, Juan Arrieta, Damon F. Landau, Rodney L. Anderson, Eric D. Gustafson,&nbsp;Gregory J. Whi\ufb00en, Paul A. Finlayson, Jon A. Sims&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em>Jet Propulsion Laboratories<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2nd ranked<\/strong>:&nbsp;Lorenzo Casalino, Dario Pastrone, Francesco Simeoni,&nbsp;Guido Colasurdo, Alessandro Zavoli &#8211;&nbsp;<em>Politecnico di Torino, Universita&#8217; di Roma<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3d ranked<\/strong>:&nbsp;Junfeng Li, Hexi Baoyin, Fanghua Jiang, Yang Chen, Yuechong Liu &#8211;&nbsp;<em>Tsinghua University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GTOC4:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizer<\/strong>: &nbsp;Regis Bertrand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winners<\/strong>:&nbsp;Maxim Zapletin, Elena Zapletina, Ilia Grigoriev, Julia Plotnikova &#8211;&nbsp;<em>Moscow State University &#8211; Department of Mechanics and Mathematics<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2nd ranked<\/strong>: &nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em>Aerospace Corporation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3d ranked<\/strong>:&nbsp;Dario Izzo,&nbsp;Francesco Biscani, Chit Hong Yam and Joris Olympio &#8211;&nbsp;<em>European Space Agency Advanced Concepts Team<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GTOC3:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizer<\/strong>:&nbsp;&nbsp;Lorenzo Casalino<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winners<\/strong>:&nbsp;Jean-Paul Berthias, Regis Bertrand, Richard Epenoy, Jacques Foliard, Flavien Mercier,&nbsp;Beno\u0131t Meyssignac-&nbsp;<em>Centre National d\u2019Etudes Spatiales<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2nd ranked<\/strong>:&nbsp;Anastassios E. Petropoulos, Jon Sims, Gregory Whi\ufb00en, Theresa Kowalkowski, Daniel&nbsp;Parcher, Paul Finlayson, Try Lam, Damon Landau, Brent Bu\ufb03ngton &#8211;&nbsp;<em>Jet Propulsion Laboratory &#8211; Guidance, Navigation and Control Section<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3d ranked<\/strong>:&nbsp;Ryan Russell, Robert Braun, Richard Otero, Kristina Alemany, Gregory Lantoine,&nbsp;Nitin Arora, Benjamin A. Stahl, Bradley Steinfeldt, Robert Thompson, Ep Pravitra,&nbsp;Sean Blackman, Sachin Jain, Tamil Periasamy, Matthew Miller, Daniel Garmendia,&nbsp;Brandon Smith, Grant Wells&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em>Georgia Institute of Technology &#8211; Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GTOC2:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizer<\/strong>: Anastassios E. Petropoulos<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winners<\/strong>:&nbsp;Lorenzo Casalino,&nbsp;Guido Colasurdo,&nbsp;Matteo Rosa Sentinella,&nbsp;Francesco Cacciatore &#8211;&nbsp;<em>Turin Polytechnic, Department of Energetic<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2nd ranked<\/strong>:&nbsp;Michael S.Konstantinov,&nbsp;Gennady G. Fedotov,&nbsp;Viacheslav G. Petukhov-&nbsp;<em>Moscow Aviation Institute, Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3d ranked<\/strong>:&nbsp;Dario Izzo,&nbsp;Tamas Vinko,&nbsp;Claudio Bombardelli,&nbsp;Stefan Brendelberger,&nbsp;Simone Centuori &#8211; <em>European Space Agency Advanced Concepts Team<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GTOC1:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizer<\/strong>: Dario Izzo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winners<\/strong>:&nbsp;Anastassios E. Petropoulos,&nbsp;Gregory J. Whiffen,&nbsp;Jon A. Sims,&nbsp;Carl G. Sauer,&nbsp;Chen-Wan L. Yen,&nbsp;Paul A. Finlayson,&nbsp;Edward A. Rinderle,&nbsp;Ryan P. Russell,&nbsp;Daniel W. Parcher,&nbsp;Theresa D. Kowalkowski,&nbsp;Try Lam,&nbsp;Seungwon Lee,&nbsp;Nathan J. Strange,&nbsp;Jennie R. Johannesen,&nbsp;Steven N. Williams &#8211; <em>Jet Propulsion Laboratories<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2nd ranked<\/strong>:&nbsp;Miguel Bell\u00f3,&nbsp;Juan L. Cano &#8211; <em>Deimos Space<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3d ranked<\/strong>:&nbsp;Mariella Graziano,&nbsp;Tomas Prieto,&nbsp;Jesus Gil,&nbsp;Carlos Corral,&nbsp;Raul Cadenas &#8211; <em>GMV<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are the&nbsp;people&nbsp;behind the success of the different teams? While it is fair to credit the institutions as winners of the various editions, it is, at the end of the day, people that &nbsp;put their brains to&nbsp;accomplish&nbsp;the&nbsp;impossible. We list here the names of the people associated to the various teams: GTOC13: Organizers: Gregory Whiffen, Mark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/?page_id=155\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">People<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-155","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}