Prof. Dittus New DLR Executive Board Member for Space

The Appointments Committee of the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Senate has designated Prof. Dr Hansjörg Dittus as the new DLR Executive Board Member for Space Research and Technology. Dittus has been Director of the DLR Institute of Space Systems in Bremen since October 2008. Prof. Dittus is a recognised expert in the fields of gravitational and fundamental physics and their related technological developments and has been involved in almost all the relevant European space projects.

Dittus studied physics and geophysics at the University of Munich from 1977 to 1982. After obtaining his degree, he worked as a researcher at the Institute of General and Applied Geophysics at the University of Munich, where he received his doctorate in 1986. In 1987 he began to work in the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (Zentrum für angewandte Raumfahrttechnologie und Mikrogravitation; ZARM) at the University of Bremen. There he first was in charge of the "Drop Tower Bremen" project, where he assumed responsibility for the construction of the large laboratory for microgravity experiments until it took up operations in 1991. After this, Dittus headed the Department of Gravitational and Fundamental Physics at the ZARM centre and three years later was appointed Head of Space Technology and Fundamental Physics. In 2006, Hansjörg Dittus was appointed Professor in the Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering / Mechanical Engineering and Process Engineering at the University of Bremen.

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