About Me
I am a high school student with a great interest in aerospace engineering and hands on research. Over the past year, I have been really diving deep into space! I was accepted and have just successfully graduated from EnduroSat’s prestigious 5-week Space Challenges Bootcamp 2026 (Sofia, Bulgaria). As one of the three winners of the Greek National Young Scientist Competition I am proudly representing Greece at the EUCYS 2026 i(Kiel, Germany, 22-27 September 2026 – my competition profile) with my project “Design and Simulation of a Cathodeless Gridded ECR Thruster Using Asymmetric Pulsed Neutralization”. I am particularly interested in earth observation and the sustainability of space exploration, which my thruster aims to improve!
Vasileios Petropoulos
Other projects:
- Direct Mentoring Club for Advanced Manufacturing
- Cubli – Space Challenges Bootcamp, August 2026
Our team built a Cubli, a self-balancing, robotic cube that can rest on its corners indefinitely. This helped me learn about control algorithms and simulation. This robot could be suitable for low-gravity, icy worlds like Enceladus, as an alternative to rovers and hoppers.
Design and Simulation of a Cathodeless Gridded ECR Thruster Using Asymmetric Pulsed Neutralization (APEN) 