Enrique Babio
Head Of Flight Sciences at Skydweller Aero
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolEnrique Babio is an aerospace engineer and Head of Flight Sciences with over a decade of hands-on experience in Guidance, Navigation & Control, specializing in autonomous, long-endurance aircraft. At Skydweller Aero he led GNC efforts that enabled the world's first autonomous large-scale solar-powered aircraft demonstrations and built the roadmap and team to advance features like auto takeoff/landing and energy-aware flight management. He combines deep simulation and control design expertise—covering nonlinear modeling, aeroservoelastic integration, and V&V strategies—with operational experience from real flight test control rooms. Earlier work includes interplanetary mission analysis and low-thrust trajectory tools for Mars missions, and UAV flight-control development for shipboard landings, reflecting a rare mix of atmospheric and deep-space navigation skills. Based in Madrid and trained at Purdue and UPM, he is as comfortable defining system architecture and requirements as he is resolving critical in-flight issues that demand rapid, technically grounded decisions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering at Purdue UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English, French, Italian
Github Skills (6)
quadratic3
model-predictive-control2
optimization2
convex2
quadratic-programming1
numerical-optimization1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ebabio/analyticAstrodynamics
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
ebabio/attitudeTimeOptimalManeuvers
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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