Kuriki Awardees
Current Winner:

• 2025 (London, England, UK)

Title: Spatial Maps of Krypton Neutral Density in SPT-70 HET Plume by TALIF

Authors: Jon Stienike, Matteo Da Valle, Mitchell Morasco, Seth Thompson, John D. Williams, Azer Yalin

Past Winners:

• 2017 (Atlanta, GA, USA)

Maria Choi "For Outstanding Contributions to the Understanding of Hall Effect Thruster Plume Impacts on Spacecraft Integration"

• 2019 (Vienna, Austria)

Kentaro Hara "Outstanding contributions, in the area of numerical simulations, to the understanding of the basic physics of EP devices"

• 2022 (Boston, MA, USA)

Mario Merino "For his contributions in understanding of electrodeless plasma thrusters"

• 2024 (Toulouse, France)

Vittorio Giannetti "For contributions to the development of electric propulsion systems, including gridded ion thrusters for BepiColombo, air-breathing electric propulsion, magnetically shielded Hall thrusters, and electrospray thrusters"