| Birthplace and
date: Born in
Reutlingen, West Germany, 21 May 1945
Marital Status:
Married
Profession:
Director, European Astronaut
Center
Education:
1965 Matriculation examination
at Technisches Gymnasium in Stuttgart.
1965-1967 Military service.
1967-1972 Studied Physics at the Universities of
Tuebingen and Bonn, received fellowships from
"Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" and CERN
(Geneva).
1972 Diploma thesis on "Stacking Efficiency of
Protons into CERN Intersecting Storage Rings".
1976 Ph.D. thesis at University of Freiburg im Breisgau
on "Longitudinal Instabilities of Relativistic
Proton Beams in Synchrotrons".
Experience:
1970-1975 Visiting Scientist and
Fellow at CERN, experimental and theoretical work on
proton beams in accelerators and plasmas.
1975-1976 Lecturer and Research Associate at Freiburg
University and Brookhaven National Laboratory (New York);
invention of adiabatic phase displacement acceleration in
proton accelerators.
1977 Design of beam optics for PETRA electron storage
rings at DESY (Hamburg).
1978-1982 DFVLR, Institute of Communication Technology at
Oberpfaffenhofen. Research in the area of space-borne
communications (search and rescue satellite system,
satellite navigation); CCIR delegate.
Member of IAF study group on "Space Safety and
Rescue". Teaching experience in satellite
communication and navigation systems (academic training
program).
Lectures on control theory at University of
Stuttgart/Berufsakademie.
October 30 - Nov. 6, 1985 Spacelab Mission D-1, flight
STS-61A, on Challenger.
Nov. 3, 1986 - present Professor and Director of the
Institute for Space Systems at the University of
Stuttgart, Research on electric propulsion systems,
micro-gravity technology and space station architecture.
Member of ESA's HERMES Advisory Committee.
Publications:
Approx. 50, 18 of which have
appeared in international publications and conference
proceedings, co-author of 2 books.
Awards:
1976 Award of "Wiss.
Gesellschaft in Freiburg im Breisgau".
1985 Federal Cross of Merit First Class, Medal of Merit
of Baden-Wuerttemberg.
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