Dr. Antonius de Rooij

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Currently retired and occasionally acting as consultant materials and processes at European Space Agency and responsible for ESA Declared Materials/Parts/Processes SoftwareTool and responsible for the outsourcing of this software tool to TSA-Delft.
Leading the transfer and installation of the Estec Scanning Kelvin Probe at the University of Delft, materials department
Materials and Processes course on the basis of ECSS (European Cooperation of Space Standardization). The first course was given at the ETH Zurich on the 2nd of September 2014. The next courses are planned for october 2015 in ESTEC, The Netherlands and Hungary and Romania in 2016.

Dr. Antonius de Rooij started working in 1982 as principle metallurgist in the Materials and Processes Section at the European Space Agency-ESTEC. From 2001 Dr. Antonius de Rooij was Head of the Materials Technology Section.

• Failure Analysis
• PCB and SMT qualifications
• New technologies
• Corrosion, Stress Corrosion
• Fatigue
• Fracture Mechanics
• Software tools for material & processes
• Space standards on Materials, mechanical parts and processes
• optical, acoustic, confocal and electron microscopy
• micro and nano-hardness
• X-ray diffraction
• Reinforced composites
• Advanced ceramics
• Surface analysis
• NDI
• Material selection, testing and advice
• European Space Materials Database

Dr. Antonius de Rooij supported all ESA space projects, including telecommunications satellites , space science and the manned Spacelab, Columbus and ISS. He provided expertise corrosion (general and specifically galvanic corrosion and atomic oxygen) and failure analysis on projects such as Ariane 5, Vega, ATV and Planck and was the document focal point for the ECSS-Q-ST-70 series of standards, which comprises 38 different standards.

He was also the convenor of the ECSS-Q-ST-70C level II and ECSS-Q-ST-70-71C level III standard. He developed the ESA DMPL tool software for controlling and approval of the declared materials, parts and processes list according to ECSS-Q-ST-70C. He was also the initiator of the European Space Materials Database and webmaster of the ESMAT website. Both cover the materials and processes used on spacecraft, launchers, payloads and ground support equipment.

Dr. Antonius de Rooij published around 50 articles in the open literature, contributed to the Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering (John Wiley & Sons) (corrosion in space), was invited speaker and chairman on several conferences and gave lessons learned presentation on welding on titanium.