After completing my two Master's degrees — one in Aviation (2006) and the other in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Control and Automation (2008) — I joined the Institute of Flight Systems at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in early 2008. Based at the airfield in Manching, I worked as a flight test engineer specializing in handling quality evaluations for military aircraft. I relocated to Munich at the end of 2008 and joined DLR's Institute of System Dynamics and Control.
Later that year, I relocated to Munich and joined DLR’s Institute of System Dynamics and Control, where my research focused on model-based fault detection and fault-tolerant control. As part of the EU FP7 projects ADDSAFE (2009-2012) and RECONFIGURE (2013-2016), I collaborated with Airbus and academic partners to develop advanced algorithms aimed at improving aircraft sustainability and performance.
In 2015, I joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota as a postdoctoral associate under the suervision of Prof. Peter Seiler. In addition to supervising students and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, I conducted research on robust control techniques, particularly for wind turbine applications. I designed and tested advanced load reduction control algorithms on the university’s 2.5 MW Clipper wind turbine.
In May 2017, I returned to DLR’s Institute of System Dynamics and Control, where I worked on modern flight control algorithms, fault detection and isolation (FDI), and robust control methods. I contributed to the Clean Sky project NACOR, developing load alleviation algorithms for aircraft, and to the Horizon 2020 project FLEXOPT, focused on active flutter suppression.
Since September 2019, I have been a full professor for Control Engineering at the Munich University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule München, HM). In October 2021, I was honored to receive a Research Professorship under Bavaria’s HighTech Agenda – a role that enables me to focus fully on cutting-edge research and innovation in control systems.
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Technical University of Munich (TUM), 2014)
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Technical University of Munich (TUM), 2008)
M.Sc. in Aviation (FH Joanneum - University of Applied Sciences, Graz, 2006)
10/2021 to present - Research Professorship at Hochschule München (HM)
9/2019 to present - Full Professor, Department of Mechanical, Automotive and Aeronautical Engineering, Hochschule München (HM)
4/2017 to 8/2019 - Research Scientist, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of System Dynamics and Control, Germany
8/2015 to 3/2017 - Postdoctoral Associate Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA
12/2008 to 07/2015 - Research Associate, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of System Dynamics and Control, Germany
5/2008 to 11/2008 - Flight Test Engineer, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Flight Systems, Germany
10/2005 to 4/2007 - Student Intern, AIRBUS Military (former: EADS Germany)
2023 - Best Paper Award at the IFAC World Congress 23 FDI/FTC challenge hosted by AIRBUS and the Stellenbosch University for Flight Control Reconfiguration in Oscillatory Failure Case Scenarios.
2021 - HM Research Professorship: In October 2021 I received a research Professor at HM under Bavaria’s HighTech Agenda honoring my research activities and achievements. It allows me to intensity my research at least until 2026.
2021 - Best research article published in 2019 in the MDPI Aerospace journal Aerospace for Structured Control Design for a Highly Flexible Flutter Demonstrator
2016 - Best Energy Systems Paper Award at the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference for Robust Control Design for Load Reduction on a Liberty Wind Turbine
2016 - Best Presentation in Session Award at the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, AIAA SciTech Forum for Enhanced detection and isolation of angle of attack sensor faults
2012 - Best Paper Award at the 12th Onera-DLR Symposium 2012 for Optimization based tuning of fault detection and diagnosis systems for large transport aircraft
2005 - Leonardo Da Vinci Fellowship of the European Commission for the support of research internships