Curriculum Vitae
Brief CV:
After receiving my two Masters in Aviation (2006) and in Mechanical Engineering with focus on Control and Automation (2008) I joined the Institute of Flight System of the German Aerospace Center early 2008. Located at the airfield in Manching I worked as flight test engineer specialized on 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. Model based Fault Detection as well as Fault Tolerant Control became my main research focus. In the two EU-FP 7 research projects ADDSAFE (2009-2012) and RECONFIGURE (2013-2016) I developed together with AIRBUS and other academic partners advanced algorithms to improve aircraft sustainability and performance.
In 2015 I joined the Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department at the University of Minnesota as Postdoctoral Associate. Besides supervising students and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses my research focused on robust control techniques with application to wind turbines. I was designed and tested advanced load reduction control algorithms for the university owned 2.5MW Clipper wind turbine.
In May 2017 I returned DLR's Institute of System Dynamics and Control working on modern flight control algorithms, FDI, and modern robust control techniques. I was involved in the Clean Sky Project NACOR to develop load alleviation algorithms for aircraft as well as the Horizon 2020 project FLEXOPT to develop a demonstrator for active flutter suppression.
In September 2019 I started my position as full professor for control engineering at the Munich University of Applied Sciences HM (Hochschule München). Since October 1st, 2021 I officially hold a Research Professorship at HM. That means less teaching and more time for conducting research!
Education
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Technical University Munich, 2014)
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Technical University Munich, 2008)
M.Sc. in Aviation (University of Applied Sciences, Graz, 2006)
Professional Experience
10/2021 to present - Research Professor at Hochschule München
9/2019 to present - Full Professor, Department of Mechanical, Automotive and Aeronautical Engineering, Hochschule München
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)
Honors & Awards
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 was named a research Professor at HM honoring my research activities and achievements. It allows me to intensity my research at least until 2026 with a reduced teaching load.
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
Memberships & Activities
2023-2024 - Program Committee member for the 10th edition of the Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT24)
2023-today - Technical Committee Member of the CEAS Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control
2023 - Special Issue guest editor for MDPI's Aerospace Journal on the topic Flight Dynamics, Control Simulation
2021-today - Affiliate Member of the European Embedded Control Institute (EECI)
2021 - Special Issue guest editor for MDPI's Aerospace Journal on the topic Aircraft Fault Detection
2008-today - Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
2014 2015 - Member of the Institute of System Dynamics and Control Council & Member of the DLR’s Scientific and Technical Council