Security of Space and Satellite Systems (SpaceSec) 2026 Leadership

TPC and General Co-Chairs

Vincent Lenders, University of Luxembourg (LUX)

Gunes Karabulut Kurt, Polytechnique Montréal (CA)

Web Chair

Simon Birnbach, University of Oxford (UK)

Publicity Chair

Jessie Hamill-Stewart, University of Bath and University of Bristol (UK)

Program Committee

Ali Abbasi, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Antonios Atlasis, European Space Agency

Christoph Bader, European Space Agency

Brandon Bailey, The Aerospace Corporation

Olfa Ben Yahia, Polytechnique Montréal

Simon Birnbach, University of Oxford

Yueqi Chen, University of Colorado Boulder

Bruce DeBruhl, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Knut Eckstein, European Space Agency

Gregory Falco, Cornell University

Daniel Fischer, European Space Agency

Giacomo Giuliari, Mysten Labs

Andreas Hein, University of Luxembourg

Stephen Herwig, William & Mary

Eric Jedermann, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau

Samuel Jero, MIT Lincoln Lab

Sebastian Köhler, University of Oxford

Patrick Lin, California Polytechnic State University

Ulf Lindqvist, SRI

Mark Manulis, Universität der Bundeswehr München

Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford

James Pavur, Cysec Labs

Christina Pöpper, NYU Abu Dhabi

Aanjhan Ranganathan, Northeastern University

Harshad Sathaye, ETH Zürich

Stephen Schwab, USC Information Sciences Institute

Mridula Singh, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Georgios Smaragdakis, TU Delft

Martin Strohmeier, Cyber-Defence Campus, armasuisse Science & Technology

Nils Ole Tippenhauer, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Howard Weiss, Parsons, Inc.

Johannes Willbold, Ruhr University Bochum

Simay Yilmaz, Izmir Katip Celebi University

Steering Committee

Vincent Lenders, University of Luxembourg (LUX)

Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford (UK)

Christina Pöpper, NYU Abu Dhabi (UAE)

Knut Eckstein, European Space Agency (Europe)

Martin Strohmeier, Cyber-Defence Campus, armasuisse (CH)

Johannes Willbold, Ruhr University Bochum (DE)

Samuel Jero, MIT Lincoln Lab (USA)

Aanjhan Ranganathan, Northeastern University (USA)