Gaëtan Kerschen is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Liège, Belgium. He founded and directs the Space Structures and Systems Laboratory (S3L). His publications are primarily in the areas of structural dynamics (with a particular focus on nonlinear vibration and aircraft/satellite structures) and orbital mechanics. He teaches courses in satellite engineering, nonlinear vibration and astrodynamics. He is the co-founder of NOLISYS, a startup company which provides solutions and software for nonlinear vibrating systems.

 

Gaëtan Kerschen has written more than 120 peer-reviewed journal papers and ranks in the top 2% of scientists worldwide, based on a study conducted by Stanford University. He is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Structural Dynamics, a new diamond open access journal. He is the recipient of international awards including two European Research Council (ERC) grants, the 2017 Doak Prize from the Journal of Sound and Vibration, the 2017 SAGE Publishing Young Engineer Award and the 2023 SEM D.J. DeMichele Award. He also received two awards from the Belgian Francqui Foundation, the Francqui Chair and Research Professorship. He was the principal investigator of the OUFTI-1 nanosatellite launched by the Soyuz rocket on April 25, 2016 for which he was awarded the Walloon Medal for Merit (Chevalier du Mérite Wallon).