People & collaboration

our research team

A multi-disciplinary collective of engineers, plasma enthusiast, and resilient problem solvers obsessed with electric propulsion technologies.

PEPPR in the field

The people behind the work

PEPPR students together — PEPPR group photo at the Cal Poly Aero Deptarment BBQ.

PEPPR students in the space environments lab — PEPPR members learning about fluid systems and fittings at the STELLA TVAC Chamber.

Amritha Naidu

Lab Member

3rd year Industrial Engineering Major

amnaidu@calpoly.edu

Arjan Reyes

Lab Member

3rd year Aerospace Engineering Major

Personal Website
areye162@calpoly.edu

Benjamin Gomez

Lab Member

4th year Aerospace Engineering Major

bdgomez@calpoly.edu

Calla Lyons

Lab Member

4th year Aerospace Engineering Major

cawoodru@calpoly.edu

Christina Taft

Lab Member

4th year Aerospace Engineering Major

cltaft@calpoly.edu

David Tennant

Numerical Modeling Lead

3rd year Aerospace Engineering Major

dctennan@calpoly.edu

Derek Druckhammer

Lab Member

1st year Aerospace Engineering Major

ddruckha@calpoly.edu

Dylan Kall

Lab Member

3rd year Aerospace Engineering Major

dkall@calpoly.edu

Eddy Tapia

Lab Member

4th year Aerospace Engineering Major

edtapia@calpoly.edu

Giovanni Calderon

Lab Member

3rd year Aerospace Engineering Major

gcalde08@calpoly.edu

Jacob Merida

Lab Member

3rd year Electrical Engineering Major

jmerida@calpoly.edu

Jeremiah Laing

Lab Member

1st year Aerospace Engineering Major

jmlaing@calpoly.edu

Natalie Babic

Lab Member

4th year Electrical Engineering Major

nbabic@calpoly.edu

Nico Wood

Lab Member

3rd year Aerospace Engineering Major

linkedin.com/nicowood05
nwood07@calpoly.edu

Spencer Biernat

Lab Member

4th year Aerospace Engineering Major

linkedin.com/spencer-biernat
sbiernat@calpoly.edu

Tony Casagrande

Lab Member

2nd year Aerospace Engineering Major

agcasagr@calpoly.edu

Trace Talbot

Lab Member

Masters Student in Aerospace Engineering

linkedin.com/trace-talbot
trtalbot@calpoly.edu

Tristin Koury

Lab Member

4th year Aerospace Engineering Major
I’m the drummer for True Anomaly and the project manager for Cal Poly UROV!

tkoury@calpoly.edu

William Som de Cerff

Lab Member

1st year Aerospace Engineering Major

https://will-som.github.io/Portfolio-Site/ wsomdece@calpoly.edu

Lubos Brieda

Lab Advisor

Focused in experimental and numerical investigation of spacecraft electric propulsion, lunar regolith transport, and high performance computational simulations.

lbrieda@calpoly.edu

Direct Inquiries

For collaboration, media requests, academic inquiries, or questions please email us.

University Address1 Grand Ave. Bldg. 41-134
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407

General Contactpeppr@calpoly.edu
909-921-6608