Sergio Pellegrino, Aerospace Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Sergio Pellegrino is the Joyce and Kent Kresa Professor of Aerospace and Civil Engineering at Caltech, JPL Senior Research Scientist Co-Director of the Caltech Space Solar Power Project, and Director of the Lynn Booth and Kent Kresa Department of Aerospace at Caltech. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of AIAA and a Chartered Structural Engineer. He has been President of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) and founding chair of the AIAA Spacecraft Structures Technical Committee. Pellegrino has received the Pioneers’ Award in 2002 from the Space Structures Research Center, University of Surrey, the NASA Robert H. Goddard Exceptional Achievement Team Awards in 2009 and 2016, and the IASS Torroja Medal in 2022.