Yohei Sugimoto wins best student paper at IAA conference

Issued: Fri, 31 May 2013 11:15:00 BST

Yohei an Aerospace Engineering graduate from Tokyo’s Metropolitan Institute of Technology, now a PhD student here at the University of Glasgow, took first place in the student paper competition at the third IAA Planetary Defense Conference: "Gathering for Impact!"

Now an Aerospace Engineering PhD student, whose field of research includes planetary defense more specifically; asteroid deflection systems, mitigation campaign planning and applied tethered systems in deep-space missions, is part of the Space Glasgow research cluster in the College of Science and Engineering, here at the University of Glasgow.

Wroking alongside fellow researchers within this field; G.Radice⁽¹⁾, M.Ceriotti⁽²⁾, and J.P.Sanchez⁽³⁾, their paper: Hazardous near-Earth asteroid mitigation campaign planning based on uncertain information on fundamental asteroid characteristics (in which they propose a dual deflection approach to prevent potential asteroid collisions) won the award for best student paper.

_{⁽¹⁾University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ UK, +44 (0)141 330 4068, gianmarco.radice@glasgow.ac.uk ⁽²⁾University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ UK, +44 (0)141 330 6465, matteo.ceriotti@glasgow.ac.uk ⁽³⁾University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ UK, +44 (0)141 552 5752, jpau.sanchez@strath.ac.uk}

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