28 Oct 2026
New version of my website
I have refreshed my personal website. Publications can now be searched and filtered, with open-access PDFs, BibTeX and DOIs for each paper, and all files can also be browsed by year. There…
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— and talks I gave15 Jul 2026
Proceedings of the 5th SSEA published
The proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Space Educational Activities (SSEA 2026) are now available open access on mediaTUM (doi: 10.14459/2026md1858704). I edited the book together with Gisela Detrell, Vincenzo Messina and…
20 Apr 2026
Two papers at CSER 2026 from my semester in Arizona
Two papers from my visiting semester at the University of Arizona were presented at the 23rd Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER 2026): Large Language Models for Systems and Ontological Modeling:…
11 Apr 2026
EventSat and our chair at Space Day München 2026
The day after the SSEA closed, we presented the EventSat mission and the TUM Chair of Spacecraft Systems at Space Day München 2026, in the new teaching building of TUM’s Ottobrunn campus…
10 Apr 2026
SSEA 2026 in Munich
The 5th Symposium on Space Educational Activities (SSEA 2026), co-organised by ESA and TUM, took place in Munich on 8–10 April, with more than 500 attendees, about 170 oral and 50 poster…
02 Apr 2026
Team Voyager wins the Caltech Space Challenge 2026
I took part in the Caltech Space Challenge 2026 (22–27 March), one of 32 participants selected from more than 500 applicants. Team Voyager designed an opportunistic mission to fly by comet P/2005…
15 Dec 2025
Guest lectures at UCLA and UArizona
I gave guest lectures on Generative Artificial Intelligence for Systems Engineering at a UCLA computer science course and for the University of Arizona IISE/INCOSE student chapter.
01 Oct 2025
Generative AI roadmap published in Procedia Computer Science
Our CAS 2025 paper Generative AI for the Design of Complex Systems: Roadmap and Space Mission Case Study (with Prof. Alessandro Golkar) is out in Procedia Computer Science, vol. 268.
20 Aug 2025
Visiting Scholar at the University of Arizona
I have arrived in Tucson, where I will be a Visiting Scholar at the University of Arizona until December 2025. I’m joining Prof. Alejandro Salado’s Disruption Lab to work on generative AI…
12 Apr 2025
EventSat at Space Day München 2025
At Space Day München on TUM’s Ottobrunn campus, our chair had an information stand presenting the EventSat mission and student projects, including a live demonstration of an event camera. I was at…
06 Mar 2025
Presenting at CAS 2025 at MIT
I presented Generative AI for the Design of Complex Systems: Roadmap and Space Mission Case Study at the Complex Adaptive Systems Conference (CAS 2025) in MIT’s Wong Auditorium, Boston.
18 Oct 2024
IAC 2024 in Milan
At the 75th International Astronautical Congress in Milan I presented A computation engine for numerical system requirements generation in LLM-based spacecraft design assistants. I am also a co-author of the EventSat mission…