He serves as the co-editor for Systems engineering, the leading journal of INCOSE.[5]
He is a member of three Technical Committees of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF): Astrodynamics Committee, Space Systems Committee and Space Education and Outreach Committee (SEOC).[6][7][8]
Gill earned a diploma in Physics from University of Tübingen, Germany, in 1986. He earned a Ph.D. in Theoretical astrophysics in 1989 from University of Tübingen. His doctoral dissertation titled "Relativistic Gyroscope Motion and Gradiometry" was supervised by Hanns Ruder. In 2005, he received a Master of space systems engineering (MSE), Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.[citation needed]
Research
From 1989 to 2006, Gill worked as scientist with the German Aerospace Center[9] at the German Space Operations Center (GSOC)[10] on satellite operations with a focus on satellite orbit determination for a variety of space missions, satellite tracking, navigation using GNSS receivers, autonomous navigation for the BIRD microsatellite[11] and formation flying for the Prisma satellite mission[12] He joined the Delft University of Technology in 2007 as full professor and section head of space systems engineering.[13] The Section is unique in its capabilities to innovate complete systems for space: from first principles to applications and from ideas to demonstration and usage in space. It educates scientists and engineers and inspires research to make the space domain more valuable to society. The Section has launched in 2008 the first Dutch university satellite, the triple-unit CubeSatDelfi-C3[14] and in 2013 its successor Delfi-n3Xt,[15] also a triple-unit CubeSat. In 2022, the Section has launched the triple-unit PocketQube satellite Delfi-PQ[16] with a mass of less than 0.6 kg. In 2015, Gill became also the founding Director of the TU Delft Space Institute.[17] From 2013 to 2021, he was also Head of the Department of Space Engineering[18] and member of the Management Team of the TU Delft Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.[19] In 2023, he initiated the TU Delft Systems Engineering Platform. Since 2022, he leads the research program on Optical Wireless Superhighways (FREE), a multi-university, multi-industry consortium.[20]
Contributions
Gill did research on, developed or supervised development of a number of systems and methods including:
General relativistc coupling of Lense-Thirring and Fokker precession of space-borne gyroscopes[21]
DLR research semester at Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA) 2002[30]
Byram Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Colorado (CU), Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Science 2023[31]
Montenbruck, O.; Van Helleputte, T.; Kroes, R.; Gill, E. (2005). "Reduced dynamic orbit determination using GPS code and carrier measurements". Aerospace Science and Technology. 9 (3): 261–271. Bibcode:2005AeST....9..261M. doi:10.1016/j.ast.2005.01.003.
Gill, E.; D'Amico, S.; Montenbruck, O. (2007). "Autonomous formation flying for the PRISMA mission". Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 44 (3): 671–681. Bibcode:2007JSpRo..44..671G. doi:10.2514/1.23015.
↑"PRISMA Mission Overview". Swedish Space Corporation (SSC). Archived from the original on 24 June 2010. Retrieved 31 December 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
↑Gill, E.; Schastok, J.; Soffel, M. H.; Ruder, H. (1989). "On the Mashhoon-Theiss "anomaly"". Physical Review. 39: 2441–2443. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.39.2441.
↑DE 102005016209B4,"Verfahren zur Erzeugung eines Notsignals an Bord eines Satelliten und dessen Übertragung sowie Verwendung einer Einrichtung zum Erzeugen eines Notsignals und dessen Weiterleitung"
↑Montenbruck, O.; Van Helleputte, T.; Kroes, R.; Gill, E. (2005). "Reduced dynamic orbit determination using GPS code and carrier measurements". Aerospace Science and Technology. 9: 261–271. doi:10.1016/j.ast.2005.01.003.
↑Gill, E.; D'Amico, S.; Montenbruck, O. (2007). "Autonomous formation flying for the PRISMA mission". Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 44: 671–681. doi:10.2514/1.23015.
↑Pasqualetto Cassinis, L.; Fonod, R.; Gill, E. (2019). "Review of the robustness and applicability of monocular pose estimation systems for relative navigation with an uncooperative spacecraft". Progress in Aerospace Sciences. 110. doi:10.1016/j.paerosci.2019.05.008.
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