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Prof. Dr.-Ing.Heiner Klinkrad
Email: heiner.klinkrad@esa.int |
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| Curriculum vitae |
Year of birth: 1953
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| Professional position |
Head of ESA Space Debris Office,
OPS-GR, at ESOC
Darmstadt/Germany
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| Qualifications |
- Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering) from the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany (1984). Title of Ph.D. thesis: "Analytical
Prediction of LEO Satellite Trajectories with a Realistic Drag Force Model"
- Visiting Scientist at ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt/Germany (1980-1983)
- Flight Dynamics Engineer at ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk/The Netherlands (1983-1988)
- Senior Mission Analyst at ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt/Germany (1988-2006)
- Head of ESA Space Debris Office, OPS-GR, at ESA/ESO in Darmstadt (2006-now)
- Lecturer on Space Debris at TU Braunschweig/ILR (2001-now)
- Leader of the COSPAR PEDAS Panels (Committee on Space Research, Panels on Potential Envionmentally Detrimental Activities in Space), since 2005
- Leader of the ESA Delegation in IADC (Inter-Agency Space Debris
Coordination Committee), since 2005
- Leader of the ESA Delegation in der European Network of Centres Space Debries Coordination Group (since 2005)
- Member of the ECSS space debris working group (European Committee on
Space Standardization)
- Member of the ISO Orbital Debris Coordination Working Group (ODCWG,
International Standardization Organisation)
- Member of IAG working group 2.130 on non-gravitational force
modeling (1994-1995)
- International member of the AIAA Astrodynamics Standards Committee (1993-1996)
- Member of the COSPAR Panel on Space Weather (1999-2001)
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| Professional affiliations |
- Associate Fellow of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics)
- Corresponding Member of IAA (International Academy of Astronautics)
- COSPAR Associate (Committee on Space Research).
- IAG Associate (International Association of Geodesy).
- Member of DGLR (German Aeronautical Society).
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| Publications |
- 178 publications, with 47 as main author
- Co-editor of Advances in Space Research (COSPAR Proceedings on Space Debris,
1999-2003).
- Member of the editorial board of "Space Debris Journal" (Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1999-2003).
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