Faculty Member, School of Aerospace and Aircraft Engineering
Principal Lecturer in Astronautics
About
Dr Chris Welch is Principal Lecturer in Astronautics and Space Systems at Kingston University where he currently holds both a Business and a Teaching Fellowship and is the University's 2010 Teacher of the Year. His research interests include spacecraft propulsion and planetary exploration. He is also a Faculty member of the International Space University, a Visiting Lecturer in Spacecraft Propulsion at Cranfield University and both a STEM and NCCPE Public Engagement Ambassador.
Dr Welch is a winner of the Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Space Education and also is Chair of the Space Education Trust and YuriGagarin50, a Director of the World Space Week Association and a trustee of the SpaceLink Learning Foundation and the Arts Catalyst and a Council Member of the British Interplanetary Society.
Dr Welch is a frequent commentator on space and astronautics and has made more than 200 television and radio broadcasts. Among Dr Welch’s other achievements are that he was one of the final twenty candidates for the 1991 UK-USSR Juno mission to the Mir space station and has written what he believes to be the first ever paper on extraterrestrial garden design.
Dr Welch is a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a member of the Institute of Physics and of the Institute of Engineering and Technology and an Associate Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He is also a Chartered Physicist and a Chartered Scientist.
Contact Information
Faculty of Engineering
Kingston University
Roehampton Vale
London SW15 3DW
UK
Twitter: @DrChrisWelch