Martin Tajmar
Prof. Dr. Martin Tajmar studied physics, space studies as well as electrical engineering and graduated with a PhD in 1999 from the Vienna University of Technology in Austria. After research stays at NASA JPL and ESA-ESTEC, he joined the Austrian Institute of Technology from 2000-2010 where he was head of the business unit space propulsion & advanced concepts. After being appointed as associate professor at KAIST, he moved to TU Dresden in Germany as full professor and head of the chair of space systems in 2012, where he was later appointed as the director of the institute of aerospace engineering. Besides the developments of his group, which includes small satellites and activities on liquid-fueled rocket engines using aerospike nozzles, his main research focus is on the development of novel electric propulsion systems and really advanced concepts for future space flight.
TUD Dresden University of Technology