TEAM
Wanting to build a Mars Rover is an ambitious undertaking.
Especially for a team of young scientists without a head-start in the space industry – but dreaming big is what we do. Over the past four years, what started as a school project has grown to more than 50 bright and driven people rethinking the current approach to Mars exploration. Our interdisciplinary team is spread out over four countries and 12 sub-teams designing, developing the next-generation Mars rover and everything around it.
Wanting to build a Mars Rover is an ambitious undertaking.
Especially for a team of young scientists without a head-start in the space industry – but dreaming big is what we do. Over the past four years, what started as a school project has grown to more than 50 bright and driven people rethinking the current approach to Mars exploration. Our interdisciplinary team is spread out over four countries and 12 sub-teams designing, developing the next-generation Mars rover and everything around it.
The Teams
MANAGEMENT
The main purpose of the Management Team is to facilitate team members’ work both from the technical development as well as the organizational perspective! Management works closely together with Leadership and People & Culture when planning (technical) projects, meetings, work on organisational development as well as represent the team to various external stakeholders.
PROTOTYPING TEAM
One of our most hands-on teams, the Prototyping team spent most of 2020 building and improving the Tumbleweed V3 prototype in our Vienna workshop. With the development of the V4 prototype, the “Prototeam” will take part in the design process to help make it a reality.
Michael Sandrieser
Lead Structural Engineer
Linda Oster
Vice Lead Structural Engineer
Abhinay Goga
Structural Engineer
Dimitri Buryak
Structural Engineer
Divya Sreedharan Menon
Structural Engineer
Georg Stampfl
Structural Engineer
Matthias Estermann
Structural Engineer
Nils Neumeister
Structural Engineer
Noah Nasr El Din
Structural Engineer
Power Engineer
Tobias Gaggl
Structural Engineer
Yara Eggenfellner
Structural Engineer
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
As developing a Mars rover requires a considerable amount of resources and financial support, the business team works hard to guarantee us the necessary funding, acting as a support entity for the other teams. They also work closely with our partners to ensure our collaborations run smoothly.
Anisha Nookala
Lead Legal
Alexander Walther
Legal
Andrea Battegazzore
Business Strategist
Mission Design Engineer
Aran Berzingi
Business Strategist
Farayi Karumazondo
Business Strategist
Julian Wahlmüller
Legal
ELECTRICAL & SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Split up into two locations, the Electrical teams currently each have individual objectives: While the Vienna team is busy with the current prototype’s electronics and software, its Delft counterpart is mainly concerned with planning, designing, simulating and defining requirements for the electrical system of the final space-grade grade version of the Tumbleweed rover.
In the future, the two locations will work together to manufacture, integrate and test all the electric and electronic components of the Tumbleweed.
Felix Abel
Lead Electrical Engineer
Cristian Ferent
Vice Lead Electrical Engineer
Abhishek Mishra
On-board Data Handling Engineer
Anjaney Shrivastava
RF Electronics & Communication Engineer
Ariel Ebersberger
On-board Data Handling Engineer
Carlo Salata
On-board Data Handling Engineer
Giovanni Cozzolongo
Electrical & Software Engineer
Luna Warzawa
Electrical & Software Engineer
Mojtaba Karimi
Power Engineer
Sam de Wringer
System Engineer
Sritharan Thirumalai Kumaran
System Engineer
Sudarshan Bhat
On-board Data Handling Engineer
Tim Holthuijsen
Electrical & Software Engineer
PEOPLE AND CULTURE (HR)
The People and Culture team makes sure communication within the team runs smoothly. The subteam’s responsibilities include handling the recruiting process from application to onboarding and supporting us with any issues that may arise for members.
Sebastian Astl Delgado
Co-Lead People and Culture
Business Strategist
Timon Schnauffer
Co-Lead People and Culture
Diana Martirosyan
HR Member
Elina Chrysostomou
HR Member
Jacobus Fourie
HR Member
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
The Systems Engineering team ensures the integration and management of the technical aspects of the Tumbleweed rovers’ mission. In addition, they explore the research and development of science goals.
Benedetta Valerio
Systems Engineer
Emil Clausen
Systems Engineer
Mick Resink
Systems Engineer
Paul Wiesen
Systems Engineer
Sebastian Harris
Systems Engineer
Yuvraj Harsha Sreedhar
Systems Engineer
STRUCTURES
The Structures team develops the mechanical, structural and material aspects of the Tumbleweed, like designing the shape, sails and collapsing mechanism. They also develop the pods, the housings for most of the electronics aboard a Tumbleweed.
Lucas Cohen
Lead Structural/Pods Engineer
Austin Phillips
Vice Lead Pods Engineer
Alessandro Battegazzore
Structural Engineer
Döme Kohlhéb
Structural Engineer
Marco Zambolin
Structural Engineer
Mikhail Maximchuk
Structural Engineer
Tilen Potocnik
Pods Engineer
MEDIA
As one of the few non-technical subteams, Media is responsible for most of what you see of Team Tumbleweed around the internet. This includes producing content for and running our various social media accounts, as well as the website.
Amelie Finan
Lead Media
Garnet John
Media Member
Lena Graf
Media Member
Leonhard Goliasch
Visual Design