Curriculum Vitae (English)

     Address
     

Favoritenstrasse 180/6
1100 Wien
AUSTRIA
+43 (1) 92 00 152 (home)

e-mail:
web: http://helmut.spitzl.cc


     Personal Information
      Date of birth: July 26, 1976
Place of birth: Vienna, Austria
Nationality: Austrian
Marital status: Single

     Fields of Interest
      Human/Robotic Space Exploration
Space Mission Design
System Engineering & Analysis
Astrophysics

     Education
     01-03 Vienna University of Technology, Master of Applied Physics (with honors)
     00-01 International Space University, Master of Space Studies (MSS'01), full scholarship jointly provided by EUMETSAT and ESA
     97-99 Ecole Centrale Paris, TIME program (Top Industrial Managers for Europe), Diplôme de l'ECP (Industrial Engineering)
     96-97 University of Vienna, Astronomy, 1st degree
     94-97 Vienna University of Technology, Applied Physics, 1st degree
     94 Final exam at secondary school with scientific bias

     Professional Experience
     2003

Participation in "Sinkflug 12/03", a public outreach conference about Mars Exploration and the latest developments in space organized by the Austrian Space Forum, Salzburg, Austria

     2003

DLR Berlin-Adlershof, Institute of Planetary Research, 5-month professional placement, investigation of Phobos Flybys during ESA's Mars Express Mission, grant from the Austrian Ministry of Science, Berlin, Germany
     2003

Co-organizer and participant of the ISU SSP'03 Alumni Conference, Strasbourg, France
     2002

UN Symposium on Enhancing the Participation of Youth in Space Activities, Graz, Austria
     2002 Selected by the Boston Consulting Group for a Workshop on "The Future of the Car Industry" in Frankfurt/Main, Germany
     2002 2-week Lunar Base Design Workshop, partly sponsored by ESA, ESA/ESTEC
     2002 36th ESLAB Symposium on "Earth-like Planets and Moons", ESA/ESTEC
     2002 Elected secretary to the European ISU Alumni Association (EAA)
     2001 Professional visits to Moscow, Russia, (NPO Energia, Krunichev, Star City) and Kourou, French Guiana (Launch of Ariane 4, Vol 144)
     2001 Sponsored by ESA to participate in the 52nd IAF Congress in Toulouse, France
     2001 4-month team project at ISU on a "Proposal for an International Spacecraft Cooperation for Education and Science". PISCES is the study of a scientific mission to Mars, using a network of small spacecraft. It shall encourage international cooperation within a competition framework.
     2001 3-month professional placement within the Lunar Mission Research Center at the NASDA Tsukuba Space Center, Japan, for a research study on "Quality Assessment of Digital Elevation Models" in association with the SELENE-Mission
     2000

2-month team project at ISU on an interdisciplinary survey of small satellites. Its purpose is to address the role for small satellites in today's world, and whether or not they will provide benefit to the commercial, political, scientific or technological sectors of the aerospace community.
     2000 Participant in the 3rd ESA Student Parabolic Flight Campaign with an experiment studying combustion
     2000 Presentation of a paper at the 51st IAF Congress in Rio, Brazil, sponsored by ESA
     2000 Sponsored by the Austrian Space Agency to participate in the 2-week ESA/ASA Summer School in Alpbach on Extragalactic Astronomy & Cosmology
     2000 Founding member of the Austrian ISU Alumni Association, actively involved in the creation of the Austrian Space Forum
     1999 Awarded a scholarship for the 10-week Summer Session Program of the International Space University (SSP'99). That year, the program took place at the Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand.
     1999 Finalist in the SUCCESS competition of ESA for the proposal of an experiment on the International Space Station
     1998 Awarded a SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship) from the California Institute of Technology for a project at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in association with the Mars Polar Lander Mission
     97-98 Correspondent for AEROSPATIALE within the club TIME Plus
     1997 Programming of web pages for Wien ONLINE (municipality of Vienna)
     1994 Space Academy Level II course at the
U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama
     1993 Selected by the Austrian Space Agency to participate in the 4th International Space Camp at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama
     88-93 Language courses in England (Worthing, Eastbourne and Torquay)

     Languages
     Ger Mother tongue
     Eng Excellent, Cambridge Proficiency examination, TOEFL: 640/670, examination for bilingual students at Ecole Centrale Paris, several stays in England and the US
     Fre Excellent, 3-year stay in France, examination for bilingual students at Ecole Centrale Paris
     Spa Good, stays in Spain and Panama
     Jap Basic knowledge, 3-month stay in Japan

     Computer Knowledge
  Operating systems: DOS, Windows 9x/NT/XP, UNIX
Standard software: Microsoft Office, COREL Draw, XaraX
Prog. languages: C, C++, IDL, NAIF/SPICE, FORTRAN, OPL, BASIC
Scientific utilities: Mathematica, Systus+, Transform
Internet: Web site management / design, HTML, JavaScript

     Extracurricular Activities
  Classical piano (14 years, graduated with honors)
Ballroom dancing (6 years, Gold-Star diploma with honors)
Classical and electric guitar
Skiing, snow boarding

last updated: September 17, 2004