Dr. Halil Ersin Söken

Prof. Dr. Halil Ersin Söken is an Associate Professor at the Aerospace Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkiye. He obtained his B.Sc. in Astronautical Engineering and a second B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering, and his M.Sc. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey in 2007, 2008, and 2009, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Space and Astronautics from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan in 2013. Dr. Söken’s primary research interests are spacecraft attitude determination and control, space flight mechanics, and guidance and navigation. Previously, he worked at TUBITAK Space Technologies Research Institute (TUBITAK Uzay) and contributed to the institute’s ongoing satellite projects. In addition, he was a project research associate at the JAXA Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, where he worked on attitude-determination algorithms for small satellites. He collaborates internationally on various research projects on attitude determination and control system design for small satellites.