Masoud Emam completed his MEngSc in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering in UCD and was funded by the European Space Agency. He received his BSc. and MSc. in 2013 and 2018 in Electrical Engineering – Control from the QIAU, Iran. He was a member of Dynamic Control System lab. in QIAU and he worked on PIL/HIL simulation of EIRSAT-1. His research interests focus on synthesis, implementation, and performance analysis of different types of controllers and observers. 

Jessica Erkal completed her PhD in the UCD star formation group in the School of Physics.  She graduated from the Physics and Astrophysics Bachelor's degree in Trinity College Dublin in 2016 and then completed a Masters in Space Science and Technology at UCD. Through the Masters, Jessica got involved in the EIRSAT-1 project. She had the opportunity to travel to ESTEC for the Fly Your Satellite! Selection Workshop where she presented with members of the EIRSAT-1 team to a panel of CubeSat experts and members of the ESA Education team. Jessica leads on product assurance for EIRSAT-1.

Joe Flanagan completed his PhD in the School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, UCD and was funded by the IRC. He completed his Bachelors in Engineering (2010-2014) in UCD. As part of the EIRSAT-1 team he was the lead engineer for EMOD, responsible for the design of the payload, the implementation of the two thermal control and adhesion promotion coatings on the payload and integration with the CubeSat to record thermal readings during flight. Joe's PhD was focused on the Development of Novel CoBlast coatings in conjunction with start-up company Enbio Ltd. who have developed a novel blast coating technology known as CoBlast. This was mainly focused on developing adhesion promotion surface coatings to replace the incredibly harsh chromate conversion coatings currently used in the automotive, space and aerospace industries.

Gianluca Fontanesi did his PhD in the UCD School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, having received the BSc in Telecommunications Engineering and MSc in Radio and Optical Transmission from Politecnico di Milano, Italy.  He commenced his PhD study in the RF & Microwave Group at UCD in October 2017 under the joint supervision of Prof. Anding Zhu and Dr. Hamed Ahmadi, funded by the IRC. As a volunteer member of the team, Gianluca contributed to the development and testing of the EIRSAT-1 Antenna Deployment Module.

Andrew Gloster completed his PhD with the UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics where his research focused on Computational Fluid Dynamics. He also has a MSc in Advanced Computational Methods for Aeronautics from Imperial College London along with a BSc in Theoretical Physics from UCD. Andrew contributed to the onboard software required for EIRSAT-1.

Mike is a Senior IIOT Technologist at Irish Manufacturing Research and an expert in in ultra low power microprocessor systems. He supported students in the team who were developing firmware for the EnBio Module and the Gamma-ray Module. He contributed to a number of papers led by Joe Mangan who worked on the development of GMOD firmware in the course of his PhD studies. 

Jack Kyle graduated in 2018 with a BSc in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.  He began working on EIRSAT-1 as an intern for his MSc in Aerospace Engineering.  As part of the software team, he contributed to flight software and ADM firmware.

Fergal completed an MSc by research in the UCD School of Computer Science. He graduated in 2018 with a BSc in Physics with Astronomy and Space Science from UCD and in 2019 graduated with an MSc in Space Science and Technology. He began working on EIRSAT-1 through an MSc internship. His work on EIRSAT-1 focussed on the ground segment communication software.

Joseph Mangan completed his  PhD in the UCD School of Physics under the supervision of Prof. Sheila McBreen. He did his undergraduate degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and has an MSc in Space Science and Technology. His PhD research was on the design and testing of gamma-ray detectors for space applications. Joseph was responsible for the GMOD motherboard firmware which manages the instrument settings, processes the events, and passes them to the on-board computer.

Favour Okosun completed his PhD with the Dynamical Systems and Risks Laboratory (DSRL) in the school of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, UCD. His research focused on developing new vibration-based sensing technology for Structural Health Monitoring of pipes. Favour holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering and has some experience working in Inspection and condition monitoring of engineering equipment. For the EIRSAT-1 project, Favour worked on the structural analysis, including planning of tests and reporting on progress, costs, resources and risks.

Conor O'Toole did his PhD in the UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics, funded by the IRC. He completed his undergraduate in Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin, followed by the MSc in Space Science and Technology at UCD. He worked primarily on orbital simulations of EIRSAT-1, developing code to model the satellite's projected orbit and its evolution. Conor is interested in space science research, and has completed internships at the NASA Ames Resarch Centre, CA, and the European Space Agency's ESTEC Research Centre in The Netherlands, working on simulations of satellite networks for Near Earth Asteroid detection and software for modelling CubeSat payloads and platforms, respectively.

Rakhi Rajagopalan completed her MEngSc in the UCD School of Mechanical and Material Science Engineering funded by the European Space Agency. She graduated from Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham, India with Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Rakhi did her undergraduate project in the University of New Mexico, USA in Robotics. Her research focused on the mechanical testing of the Antenna Deployment Module (ADM) of EIRSAT-1.

Lána Salmon completed her IRC-funded PhD on Gamma-Ray Bursts and Gravitational Waves in the UCD Space Science group in 2021. She graduated in 2017 with a BSc in Physics with Astronomy and Space Science from UCD. As a member of the EIRSAT-1 team, Lána worked on communications and the ground segment. She is also extremely passionate about communicating science, and led many of the EIRSAT-1 outreach activities.

Daire completed his PhD in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering in UCD as an IRC-funded scholar. He graduated from Trinity college Dublin with a BEng in mechanical and manufacturing engineering. He worked on the attitude determination and control system (ADCS) for EIRSAT-1. With colleagues in the Dynamics and Control group, he developed a model to simulate EIRSAT-1’s attitude (orientation) dynamics and using this to design an attitude control system for the satellite. As part of his PhD, Daire also worked on an ESA contract to apply wave-based control (WBC) to flexible launch vehicles and to create a software tool for this purpose.

Sarah Walsh completed her PhD in the UCD Space Science group in 2021, specialising in the proposed ESA X-Ray observatory Athena and its capabilities for gamma-ray burst science. Prior to that she graduated with a BSc in Physics with Astronomy and Space Science from UCD. Sarah's contribution was primarily on Assembly Integration and Verification activities for EIRSAT-1.

Umair Javaid was a research assistant in the School of Mechanical and Materials engineering having graduated with a BSc degree in Computational Physics and 

has an MSc in materials science and surface engineering. His research focuses on the study of thermoset composites with responsibility for manufacturing and characterisation of thermoset composites. He was involved as a volunteer in vibration testing of the EIRSAT-1 assembly and components.

Many other individuals and organisations have contributed to the EIRSAT-1 mission.

We are grateful for the excellent administrative and technical support we have received from the School of Physics and the School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering; for the support from College Principals in the College of Science and the College of Engineering & Architecture, and from the Office of the Vice-President for Research, Innovation & Impact. We are also grateful for the expert advice from the SIRG and Legal offices, and from across the whole University.

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We appreciate the colleagues who have provided their technical expertise to the team, especially Dr. Alexey Ulyanov, Dr. Derek O'Callaghan and Dr. Daithi de Faoite.

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As undergraduates in Physics, Serena O'Connor and Padraig McDermott supported on electronics for EMOD and on antenna designs for ground receipt of spacecraft signals.

The Phase A was supported in part by students from UCD's MSc in Space Science and Technology, including Paul Hedderman, Diarmuid Finnan, Stephen O'Connor, Aby Kalapura, Anand Mohandas, Kelvin Cardozo Martins, Liam Phelan and, later, by Meadhbh Griffin, Rabin William and Michael Kehoe. Daniel Higgins also supported the Phase A. Shane Moran and Nicholas Wong in Physics also supported the mission. Mechanical engineering undergraduate students Eoghan Somers and Paul Lynam supported on test equipment design, and PhD candidate Theo Mossop supported on a material analysis study. Oscar Bennett conducted a thermal analysis. Victorio Úbeda and Jenna Rogge also contributed as mechanical engineering undergraduates.

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We have benefited enormously from the support and expertise of many people at the European Space Agency (ESA), especially David Palma, Lily Ha, Alex Kinnaird and  Joost Vanreusel at ESA Education, Jean-Philippe Halain of the PRODEX office, and Brian Shortt of ESA's Future Missions Department.

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We acknowledge the exceptional work by staff in Enterprise Ireland and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (DETE), whose efforts have been instrumental in the implementation of EIRSAT-1 as Ireland's first satellite.

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We have tried to capture all those who have made a contribution (up to Spring 2022) by laser engraving their names on a panel that forms part of the Antenna Deployment Module. Please see our Supporters page for more information.

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Sincere thanks to everyone for getting involved and supporting the mission.