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Ernst Messerschmid |
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Ernst Messerschmid |
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BIRTHPLACE: Reutlingen, Germany, 21 May 1945 EDUCATION: Ernst Messerschmid graduated from Technisches Gymnasium, Stuttgart, Germany in 1965. He then studied physics at the University of Tübingen and Bonn in 1967 to 1972. After graduating, E. Messerschmid worked as a CERN Fellow (1972-1975) and as a research assistant at the University of Freiburg/Breisgau where he received his Doctor’s degree (1976). His doctoral thesis was on "Longitudinal Instabilities of Relativistic Proton Beams in Synchrotrons". RECREATIONAL INTERESTS: Music, sailing, and outdoor activities such as golf, gardening AFFILIATIONS: As a result of his time at CERN (visiting scientist, 1970; Fellow, 1972-1975), in 1977, E. Messerschmid worked as a researcher at DESY, Hamburg, when he became interested in space technology and utilisation, and consequently participated as a German astronaut candidate in the first ESA astronaut selection campaign. Following this, in 1978, he joined the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, where he worked in the area of satellite-based search and rescue communication systems. In 1983, E. Messerschmid was selected as a science astronaut based at DLR in Cologne, Germany. After science training conducted at different universities and industrial laboratories, and after his subsequent flight training at ESA and NASA, he was assigned as a crewmember of the German Spacelab Mission D1 in 1985. Since November 1986, Messerschmid has been Professor and Director of the Space Systems Institute (IRS) at the University of Stuttgart. He held various high ranking positions as Chairman of a Collaborative Research Center and was responsible for a variety of research activities at University institutes, industry and DLR laboratories. At Stuttgart University, Messerschmid was Dean of the Aerospace faculty from 1990 to 1992 and Vice-President (Provost) from 1996 to 1998. From 2000 to 2004 E. Messerschmid was Head of the European Astronaut Centre (EAC), in Cologne, Germany. Ernst Messerschmid has now left ESA and returned to his Professorship in Astronautics and Space Stations at the Institute of Space Systems University of Stuttgart. EXPERIENCE: 30.10.1985: German Spacelab Mission D1 (7-day spaceflight STS-61A with Challenger). Experiments in fluid physics, material science, biology, medicine and navigation. PUBLICATIONS: Ca. 140, most of them are published in journals and conference proceedings; holder of 10 patents, author and co-author of 10 books, the latest on "Space Stations - Systems and Utilization" (by Springer Publisher, March 1999). SPECIAL HONORS: Science Award of Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft in Freiburg im Breisgau (1976), NASA Space Flight Medal (1985), NASA Flight Achievement Award (1986), German Cross of Merit First Class (1985), Medal of Merit of Federal State Baden-Württemberg (1986), Golden Hermann Oberth Medal (1986), Reinhard-Furrer-Award of DARA (1997), Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2001). |
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