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Technical University of Munich

M.Sc. Francisco Javier Guerrero Gonzalez

Postal address:
Technical University of Munich
Professorship of Lunar and Planetary Exploration (Prof. Reiss)
Lise-Meitner-Str. 9-11
85521 Ottobrunn

Phone: +49 89 289-16016
Room: 5506.02.617, 9377.02.201
E-Mail: f.guerrero(at)tum.de

ORCID: 0000-0002-2468-4481
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Research Focus

  • Oxygen and metal extraction from planetary regolith (Project ESPLORE)
  • ISRU System Modeling (Project ISRULib)

Publications

2025

Ikeya, K., Guerrero-Gonzalez, F. J., Kiewiet, L., Cardin, M.-A., Cilliers, J., Starr, S. & Hadler, K. (2025). Hybrid lunar ISRU plant: A comparative analysis with carbothermal reduction and water extraction. Acta Astronautica, vol. 230, pp. 148–168. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2025.02.004.

2023

Guerrero-Gonzalez, F. J. & Zabel, P. (2023). System analysis of an ISRU production plant: Extraction of metals and oxygen from lunar regolith. Acta Astronautica, vol. 203, pp. 187–201. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2022.11.050.

2025

Guerrero-Gonzalez, F. J. & Donten, M. L. (2025). Molten salt electrolysis for bulk production of ISRU silicon. 2nd Workshop of the Toulouse Task Force on ISRU, Toulouse.

2024

Guerrero-Gonzalez, F. J. et al. (2024). Advancing Molten Salt Electrolysis for Lunar ISRU: Material Challenges, Testing, and Scalability Perspectives. International Astronautical Conference (IAC), Milan. [Download paper]

Guerrero-Gonzalez, F. J. et al. (2024). Developing beneficiation capabilities to support a future ISRU demonstration mission. Space Resources Week, Luxembourg. [Watch video]

2023

Guerrero-Gonzalez, F. J. & Reiss, P. (2023). Holistic system modeling: Towards the design of scalable ISRU architectures. Space Resources Week, Luxembourg. [Download poster]

2022

Guerrero-Gonzalez, F. J. (2022). Vacuum distillation: Obtaining useful metal alloys from reduced lunar regolith. 1st International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing for Air, Space and Land Transportation.

2021

Guerrero-Gonzalez, F. J. (2021). Analysis of an In-Situ Material Production Concept for Potential Thermal Applications in a Lunar Mission. Master's thesis. Technical University of Munich. [Download manuscript]

Student Theses

The following lists all of my announced and supervised Bachelor's (BA), Semester (SA), and Master Theses (MA). Should you be looking for a thesis but can't find a good announced topic, send me an e-mail.

See Theses.

Title       BASAMA
ISRU molten salt electrolysis: In search of an inert anode X 
Investigating convection challenges in the FFC process under lunar conditions  X

Title       BASAMA
Simulation of the melting behavior of a lunar regolith simulant for additive manufacturing X 
Thermal design of a lunar ISRU payload X 
Feasibility study of building photobioreactors on the Moon using lunar resourcesX  
Conceptual design of deployable solar arrays to support space exploration missions on the lunar surface X 
ISRULib: Parametric Analytical Modeling of H2/O2 Electrolysis, Liquefaction and CryostorageX  
Development of a parametric sizing model for Molten Salt Electrolysis reactors to coproduce oxygen and metals on the Moon  X
Simulation framework to estimate heat losses of a high-temperature payload on the lunar surfaceX  
ISRULib: Parametric Analytical Modeling of Regolith Excavation and Handling Hardware X 
Development of a vacuum distillation model for the recovery of metal alloys and recycling of molten salts from reduced lunar regolith  X
Modeling, Simulation and Comparison of Lunar Thermal Water Extraction Methods for Space Resource Utilization  X
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