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Creation Date
2018
Bio
CV, 2018-01-18
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Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Phys.
Dirk-Roger Schmitt
Present affiliation:
DLR - German Aerospace Center
Lilienthalplatz 7
38108 Branschweig
Germany
1984 Diploma in Physics in 1984 from the Technical University of Braunschweig with a master thesis on superconductivity
1984 Researcher at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center), DLR, Braunschweig
1990 PhD for electrical engineering with a work on optical navigation systems
1993 -1997 SESAM Mission manager for DLR at the Kennedy Space Center, responsible Principal Investigator for DLR's payload on 4 Space Shuttle missions.
1995 Head of the sensors research group and responsible for the German national reconnaissance demonstration system
2000 Project manager for the national Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAS) research programme “WASLA-HALE”
2001 Manager UAS-Systems research
2005 Business Manager ATM-Systems and UAS
2010 Coordinator Security and Defense Research of Institute
2011 Senior R&D manager Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS)
2013 Speaker DLR Research Center Maritime Security Braunschweig
2014 Coordinator STM-Development
