Andres Permuy

Andres Permuy is a third-year Mechanical Engineering student at the Columbia University Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS). In 2024, he received a Bachelor of Science in Physics with a minor in Mathematics from Georgetown University through the Columbia Combined Plan. Following Columbia, Andres aspires to receive a master's degree in Space Robotics to pursue a career in Orbital Robotics and Automation. His current goal is to work with automation that can be utilized in the space industry for extraterrestrial exploration and orbital debris mitigation.

Currently, Andres serves as the Vice Chair of the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS-USA), is a member of the Columbia Space Initiative (CSI) Lunabotics & Rocketry Teams, and works on Columbia's FSAE team working on High Voltage Tractive Systems. In the past, Andres has worked twice as a Robotics & Computer Vision intern for Astroscale Japan, conducted robotics research at the Communication, Culture, and Technology masters program at Georgetown University, led the Georgetown University Space Initiative (GUSI), lobbied space industry issues on Capitol Hill with the Alliance for Space Development (ASD), researched Space Policy with the Beyond Earth Institute, represented his Georgetown peers as a delegate to the Space Generation Fusion Forum, conducted in-lab research with Physics and Engineering Ph.D's at Georgetown University, gained field experience as a project engineer, and worked with and taught children of all ages about the basics of the space industry, engineering, and physics.