José GONZALEZ DEL AMO (male) is the Head of the Electric Propulsion Section at ESA since October 2003 and the ESA Propulsion Laboratory Manager since 2004. He was before Electric propulsion Engineer in the Electric Propulsion Section at ESA from 1991 to 2003. He started his career in Space, in 1989, at ESA as graduated trainee in the Power Conversion Division. He has a Master degree in Applied Physics (University Autonoma de Madrid) and in Space Systems Engineering (University of Delft). He has been involved in many research and development activities on Electric Propulsion supervising the industrial developments and carrying out testing and research activities at the ESA Propulsion Laboratory since 1991. He has been involved in many ESA projects such as Artemis, Smart-1, GOCE, Bepi Colombo, Lisa-pathfinder, AlphaBus, Neosat, Small GEO, Electra, Galileo Evolution, etc. He has been also the responsible for the roadmap of the Electric propulsion Technology within the ESA Harmonisation programme and the roadmap preparation for all the propulsion systems called Propulsion 2000. He has more than 130 papers in the field. He is the coordinator of the European Commission program EPIC.