Sergii Iakymov
Director Of Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS)
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolSergii Iakymov is an aerospace engineer and operations leader with over a decade of hands-on experience running analog space research and extreme-environment facilities, currently serving as Director of the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah. He has led 35 space-analog simulations, integrated smart-home technologies for remote situational awareness, and developed EVA safety and communications projects to improve field operations. His background spans satellite hardware production and quality management—managing million-dollar contracts and scaling manufacturing for major aerospace firms—alongside research roles developing satellite instrumentation and microgravity experiments. Comfortable both in the machine shop and in confined-space analogs (including multi-week NASA HERA and reduced-pressure studies), he combines operational rigor, safety training, and technical documentation skills to support human exploration. Based in Denver, he brings a rare blend of field leadership, manufacturing process control, and research engineering focused on making extreme-environment science reliable and repeatable.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Aircraft Control Systems, Master's degree Aircraft Control Systems at National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
English, German, Russian, Ukrainian
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