What's your next adventure?

After graduating, I will be continuing my role as CEO of Reditus Space, the startup that I co-founded. We build reusable satellites for zero-gravity manufacturing, headquartered in Atlanta. 

What about this next adventure are you most excited about or most looking forward to?

I think just being able to see the company grow to the point where we are onboarding a decent amount of people in the next couple of weeks. Seeing it all grow has been incredibly exciting. Specifically, we’ll be hiring for a lot of engineering positions very soon. 

How did your educational experience at Georgia Tech help you to achieve your goals?

The doctorate gave me a thorough fundamental engineering background to tackle problems adjacent to it, as well as providing a general overview of a large section of the space industry and what might be possible in the near future. My master's laid the foundation in terms of engineering for the subsequent steps.

Did you have any internship, co-op, or research experience in this area?

Yes, I did some work in hypersonics with Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) last year. Additionally, my doctoral research focused on cis-lunar orbit determination and operations, which involves new architectures for figuring out where things are in the environment and how we can move things around space more efficiently.

What advice would you give to an underclassman who would like to follow the same path as you?

Just try and do things. They might fail, but at some point, they might work. It's a saying that's pretty common in Dutch and has been repeated frequently in the entrepreneurial spirit. Just do stuff.