Role: Instrument Noise Performance Engineer

1990-1995
Student at the Technical University Ilmenau, Degree: Dipl. Ing. Electrical Engineering

1996-1999 
Ph.D. student at DLR and Technical University Berlin, Degree: Dr. Ing. Aerospace Engineering

1999-2000
PostDoc at University of Zurich (Switzerland)

2000-2003
Researcher at DLR

2004-2017
Head of the Department of Information Processing at DLR’s Institute of Optical Sensor Systems

Since 2017
Head of the Department of Real-time Data Processing at DLR’s Institute of Optical Sensor Systems

Since 2004
Lecturer for Computer Vision at different Universities

2011
Research stay at University of Auckland (New Zealand)

2013 – 2016
Project manager HP3 for NASA’s Insight mission

Fields of work:

• Signal- and Image processing
• Optical Navigation
• Photogrammetry and remote sensing
• System modelling and simulation