For the second year in a row, Professor Sergio Pellegrino, Professor of Structural Engineering, has won the Gossamer Spacecraft Forum Best Paper Award.
For the second year in a row, Professor Sergio Pellegrino, Professor of Structural Engineering, has won the 2004 Gossamer Spacecraft Forum Best Paper Award by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Sergio's co-authors were Dr Alan Watt, formerly a Department undergraduate and then postgraduate, and Dr Omer Soykasap, currently a Senior Researcher Associate in the Deployable Structures Lab. The winning paper is entitled "New Deployable Reflector Concept".