Jordi Puig-Suari

Jordi Puig-Suari is a Spanish-American aerospace engineer and retired professor who co-invented the CubeSat standard together with Bob Twiggs. Born in the Catalan region of Spain in 1965, he moved to the United States and earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Purdue University's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1988 and 1990, followed by a doctorate there. He taught at Arizona State University from 1994 to 1998, then became a professor at California Polytechnic State University, Cal Poly, and chaired its Aerospace Engineering Department from 2004 to 2008. In 2011 he and Scott MacGillivray established Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems in San Luis Obispo, California, to sell miniature avionics packages for small satellites. By 2017 he had taken part in eight satellite development efforts and the launch of more than 130 CubeSats. In 2022 he was inducted into the Space Foundation's Space Technology Hall of Fame and received the Creu de Sant Jordi from the Generalitat de Catalunya.