A selection of projects that I have been working on.

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Professional Placements

  • Investigation of Phobos Flybys (2003)
    5-month professional placement at the German Aerospace Agency (DLR Berlin-Adlershof) within the Institute of Planetary Research. The title of my work was "Investigation of Phobos Flybys during ESA's Mars Express Mission". I received a grant from the Austrian Ministry of Science. (Berlin, Germany)
     
  • Quality Assessment of Digital Elevation Models (2001)
    3-month professional placement within the Lunar Mission Research Center at the NASDA Tsukuba Space Center, for a research study on "Quality Assessment of Digital Elevation Models" in association with the SELENE-Mission. (Tsukuba, Japan)
     
  • Calibration of Meteorology Package for Mars Polar Lander (1998)
    SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship) from the California Institute of Technology for a 10-week placement at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.     (Pasadena, USA)


Team Projects

  • Proposal for an International Spacecraft Cooperation for Education and Science (2001)
    4-month team project at ISU. "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. (Strasbourg, France)
     
  • Small Satellite Interdisciplinary Study (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. (Strasbourg, France)
     
  • Combustion around a Sphere in Microgravity (2000)
    A project focussing on the study of combustion processes within microgravity environments. The experiment was successfully flown on ESA's 3rd Student Parabolic Flight Campaign. (Bordeaux, France)
     
  • An International Strategy for Human Exploration Away from Earth (1999)
    6-week team project on human space exploration titled "Out of the Cradle" at the International Space University Summer Session Program '99. (Khorat, Thailand)

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Workshops

  • Enhancing the Participation of Youth in Space Activities (2002) 
    Third United Nations Symposium on "Enhancing the Participation of Youth in Space Activities". (Graz, Austria)
     
  • Lunar Base Design Workshop (2002)
    2-week workshop, partly sponsored by ESA. (ESTEC/Nordwijk, The Netherlands)
     
  • Alpbach Summer School (2000)
    I was sponsored by the Austrian Space Agency to participate in the 2-week ESA/ASA Summer School in Alpbach on Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology. Our team designed a future x-ray interferometry mission in space named "ASTeRIX". (Alpbach, Austria)
     
  • International Space Camp (1993)
    Imagine being an astronaut for a week! Being selected by the Austrian Space Agency to participate in the 4th International Space Camp I was among the 50 people from 25 different countries who had the chance to find out what it is like ... (Huntsville, Alabama)