MrKosuke Ikeya

Kosuke Ikeya is a PhD student in Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London supervised by Dr Michel-AlexandreCardin and Professor Jan Cilliers. His interdisciplinary research at Strategic Engineering Lab focuses on Space Resource Utilisation (SRU), also known as In-Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU), on the moon. Specifically, he tackles the challenge of optimising SRU plants' design and their deployment strategies considering uncertain parameters in the lunar environment (e.g. particle sizes of the lunar soil, regolith) and space mission operation (e.g. rocket launch failure).

Before coming to Imperial, he obtained an MSc in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan (2022) and an MEng in Engineering Sciences and Design from Tokyo Institute of Technology (2020).