Meet the Team

Mario Kobald
Chief Executive Officer
Mario received his PhD in Aerospace engineering from University of Stuttgart in 2015 and diploma in 2010.
Since 2010 he was working at the DLR Institute of Space Propulsion and restarted the activities on hybrid rocket propulsion and advanced hybrid rocket fuels. There, he is leading the hybrid propulsion research group.
From 2012 till 2016 he was project manager of the HyEnD hybrid sounding rocket project at University of Stuttgart.
He is leading HyImpulse as CEO with his long experience in project management, international network, knowledge in hybrid propulsion and sounding rockets.

Christian Schmierer
co-Chief Executive Officer
Christian earned a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from University of Stuttgart in 2019 and diploma in 2013.
Since then he was working at the German Aerospace Center on system analysis of rocket vehicles with a special focus on hybrid rocket systems, sounding rockets, launch vehicles and lunar landers.
Since 2012 he was actively involved in developing, building and launching hybrid sounding rockets at the University of Stuttgart.
At HyImpulse he embraces the role of the co-CEO, supporting the CEO with leading the start-up to develop a smallsat launch vehicle and get into space!

Ulrich Fischer
Chief Technology Officer
Ulrich earned a diploma in aerospace engineering from University of Stuttgart in 2014.
He has been working on hybrid rocket propulsion and rocket lightweight structures since then.
Ulrich is the CTO of HyImpulse, coordinating the technical development of the rockets.

Konstantin Tomilin
Chief Operating Officer
Konstantin earned a diploma in aerospace engineering from University of Stuttgart in 2014.
Working on different rocket systems like recovery systems, hybrid propulsion systems, airframes, he has gained a lot of experience in the field of sounding rockets.
For HyImpulse Konstantin is managing day-to-day operations as COO.

Isabella Verri
Project Manager Sounding Rocket SR75

Bala Madhan
Project Manager Hybrid Propulsion

Jérôme Messineo
Project Coordinator Hybrid Propulsion

Goutham Karthikeyan
Project Coordinator Small Launcher SL1 & Propulsion Engineer

Enrico Paccagnella
Propulsion & Test Bench Engineer

Jan Witte
Propulsion & Launch Vehicle Engineer

Jens Kramer
Propulsion & Propellant Management Engineer

Marius Seiter
Propulsion Test Engineer

Max Müller
Turbomachinery & Propulsion Engineer

Sebastian Althapp
Propellant Management Engineer

Paul Cimetiere
Propellant Management & Mechanical Engineer

Andrea De Pace
Launch Vehicle System Engineer

Ferdinand Hertel
Launch Vehicle System Engineer

Davide Corbo
Mission Analysis Engineer

Domenico Mastrovito
Mission Analysis Engineer

Romain Verges
Structural Engineer

Nikolaos Sarantinos
Structural Engineer

Kostas Gliozeris
Avionics Engineer

Nicolas Villedieu de Torcy
Avionics & Mechanical Engineer

Aurimas Jankauskas
Recovery System Engineer

Altynay Demeubayeva
Engineering Management Support & Business Development

Christian Neutz
Mechanical Engineer

Katharina Burkhardt
Executive Assistant

Alex Rutz
Technician

Heinrich Lindt
Mechanic

Stefan Bös
Composite Technician

Quentin Lenglet
Intern

Gizem Karaca
Propulsion & Test Bench Engineer

Dominic Groß
Intern

Vibha Vasanthakumar
Intern

Philipp Jochum
Intern

Gabriel Galvao
Intern

Ravneet Kaur
Intern

Benjamin Vogelmann
Intern

Tommaso Cinelli
Intern

Vasiliki Panagiotopoulou
Intern

Vittorio Di Pietrantonio
Intern

Ramazan Canbay
Intern

Tommaso Pellegrini
Intern

Aaron Hurley
Intern