Monica Ekal
Co-Founder at Serendipity Space
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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SeniorMonica Ekal is a robotics engineer and co-founder with nine years of experience focused on autonomy and sustainability in space exploration. She leads robotic mission software at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for the EROSS On-Orbit Servicing project while co-founding Serendipity Space to translate research into operational capability. Her PhD work at Instituto Superior Técnico advanced parametric uncertainty reduction for on-orbit operations, including active learning experiments on NASA’s Astrobee aboard the ISS. Skilled in robot control, planning, and parameter identification, she bridges academic rigor and mission-grade software engineering. An engaged mentor and speaker, she supports global space-career initiatives and brings hands-on flight-proven expertise to commercial on-orbit servicing efforts.
9 years of coding experienceProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
monica-ekal/Parameter-Estimation-Trajectory-Generation
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 27 days
monica-ekal/monica-ekal.github.io
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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