Souhaib Boukayoua is an Aircraft Architect with a large experience in Overall Aircraft Design, Propulsion and Systems ; involved in many Airbus Aircraft developments (A350, Beluga-XL, A330Neo) ; he looked across whole aircraft lifecycle from R&T, early concepts to in-service operations balancing between technical and project contributions

Passionate and willing to start the journey toward a more sustainable aviation…he acted as deputy head of engineering of the "Hydrogen Technologies" on ZEROe (Airbus’ zero-emission aircraft concept).

More recently, he joined Airbus UpNext as Lead Architect of ASCEND Demonstrator, a three-year "cryogenic & superconducting powertrain" project to enable high-power electric propulsion for next generation aircraft.

ASCEND = Advanced Superconducting & Cryogenic Experimental powertraiN Demonstrator