Team

CHRIS GILBERT, Internal Consultant

Chris joined LIQUIFER as an internal consultant in 2012. He provides support to business development, proposal writing, and has worked on LIQUIFER projects such as EDEN-ISS and Gateway I-HAB.
Chris has 40+ years of experience working for European and international space activities. He worked for 35 years at Astrium Space Transportation where his role involved systems engineering, project management, marketing and business strategy.
Chris spent a year (2011-12) as a visiting scholar at the Space Policy Institute in Washington DC, studying issues of international cooperation for space exploration. Chris has a BSc (Engineering) from Leicester University and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management in England.

MONIKA BRANDIĆ LIPIŃSKA, Internal Consultant

Monika holds a Master in Architecture from Lund University, Sweden and has a Master in Space Studies from the International Space University in Strasbourg, France. She is currently pursuing her PhD  at the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment at Newcastle University. She researches biofabrication strategies for stabilising regolith using mycelium, to construct inhabitable structures, in resource-limited Martian conditions. Monika also collaborates with the Astrobiology lab at NASA Ames Research Centre. Further, Monika is a co-founder of Bio-Futures for Transplanetary Habitats, a research platform which aims to explore and enable interdisciplinary research on transplanetary habitats and habitable structures in extreme environments through an emphasis on the biosocial and biotechnological relations. She worked with LIQUIFER in 2017 as an intern and since 2020 she has been an internal consultant.

INGO RETAT, Internal Consultant

Ingo earned his Diploma and Phd in Physics from the Technical University of Braunschweig where he also worked at the Institute for Physics of Metals between 1981 and 1986. After that he started working for Airbus Defence and Space in Bremen and was the systems engineer and project manager of the Net Capture System for the Remove Debris mission demonstrating for the first time the capture of a rotating debris in space. He was the systems engineer of the Bartolomeo Platform attached to the Columbus module. Ingo also worked for experiments and cargo on ISS and Space Shuttle/Spacehab missions, e.g on the Anthrorack/D2 and External Stowage Platform 2 and 3, as well as on hardware for human spaceflight related activities, e.g. membrane base de-gassing device installed on the Columbus cooling loop. Since 2023 he has been working with LIQUIFER as internal consultant.

DARREN BERLEIN, Internal Consultant

Darren holds in Space Studies from the International Space University in Strasbourg, France and has been a professional architect in Cape Town South Africa since 2019. Since 2023 he has been pursuing his passion to wor in space and has transititoned after an intership at LIQUIFER to work as internal consultant from December 2023 onwards.

BOB DAVENPORT, Internal Consultant († 14.2.2023)

Bob Davenport joined LIQUIFER as an internal consultant in 2013. He has worked on projects such as MOONWALK, TRAILER, URBAN, EDEN-ISS.
Bob is a space systems engineer with 40+ years of experience in the development and testing of manned space systems, interface definitions, operations scenarios, payload integration for the European module Columbus on the International Space Station (ISS). He worked with Astrium Space Transportation for over 37 years. Bob was also employed as scientific assistant in the Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen researching the global carbon cycle using remote sensing. Bob has a BSc in Physics and an MSc in Materials Science from the University of Leeds.  

STEPHEN RANSOM, Internal Consultant (2002 – 2016)

Stephen Ransom joined LIQUIFER as an internal consultant in 2005. He led proposal writing efforts and worked on projects such as RAMA, FIPES, FASTER, SHEE, and MOONWALK.
Stephen has 50+ years of experience working as a systems engineer and project leader in the British aerospace industry for BAC / BAe, and in Germany for ERNO Raumfahrttechnik, EADS Space, Astrium, and Airbus.  His areas of expertise include: advanced systems engineering, definition of system and mission requirements, space scenarios and infrastructures, new concepts, R&D, prototyping, manufacturing and testing. He has extensive experience in technical and contractual study management of space projects. Stephen has a BSc (Engineering) in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Salford.