Speaker

Hermann Ludwig Moeller joined the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna in September 2022. As its new Director, he is leading the European Think Tank on Space, responsible to develop approaches to European Space Policy and provide recommendations to European decision makers and institutions. Prior to joining ESPI, he held leading positions at ESA in the creation of EU Copernicus and in the preparation of the EU Secure Connectivity initiative as Head of Telecommunications Strategy, Programme and Transformation Office and as Head of Copernicus Space Segment Office. In these functions, Mr. Moeller has been operating with high level leadership in a complex multi-stakeholder policy environment in public-private partnerships with industry, at EU level, with EUMETSAT and with national space agencies and delegations.

Jaroslav Holis is currently working as a Senior Manager in Group Technology at Deutsche Telekom. He completed his Ph.D. in Radio Network Engineering. He joined Deutsche Telekom shortly after graduating and worked on LTE, LTE-A and pre-5G network development. His specialization is in Radio Access Network, especially in antenna techniques, interference coordination, proof of concepts and field trials. He is currently working on 5G networks evolution towards 6G “3D” networks and also driving DT NTN program.

Javier is Head of Programs at the Smart Network and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS-JU) of the European Commission.
Previously, he worked as Head of Telco at Here Technologies, a location technology firm with focus on Automotive. He also collaborated in 5GAA, as Vice-chair of working group 5 (future business models). Between 2013 and 2021 he worked for GSMA, the world’s largest telecoms association, as Director of Innovation (Brussels) and Director of Strategy (London). During this time, he worked to identify future sources of value and opportunities for industry collaboration in the transition to 5G. Before, he worked for 13 years at Telefonica-O2, as Director of strategy, mobile services and alliances, both in Europe and Latin America. He started his career as Telecom analyst for HSBC Investment Bank in London.
Javier holds an Advanced Management Program from INSEAD France, an MBA from IESE Business School and a double bachelor’s degree in Business Science and Economics from ICADE-Comillas Pontificia University. He has also completed programs on Innovation Management at IMD and on Artificial Intelligence at MIT Sloan.

Andreas Knopp is a German professor of satellite communications technologies. Since 2015, he has been the Chair Holder of Signal Processing and the Director of the Munich Center of Space Communications research facility at the Bundeswehr University in Munich. In addition, he is now a chairperson of SPACE, the largest German interdisciplinary research center on space technologies. In 2020, Prof. Knopp became a board member of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and in 2023 he was appointed as a Senator of DLR. He is an advisor to the German Ministry of Defence, and a Visting professor of Naval Postgraduate School Monterey (CA), USA. He is also a member of the expert committee on radio systems in the German society of information technologies (VDE/ITG), and an IEEE Senior Member.

Prof. Knopp holds a master’s degree in information technology (2002) and a Ph.D. in wireless communications (2008), both from the Bundeswehr University Munich. In 2010, he received an Executive MBA degree from Gutenberg School of Business Mainz.

Klaus Michel is Vice President and Head of German National Programmes for Airbus Defence and Space, based in Munich, Germany. Since joining Airbus Defence and Space in 2019, he has contributed to many telecommunication missions both on payload and equipment level with a special interest in optical inter-satellite links, quantum key distribution and 5G/6G use cases.
Prior to joining Airbus Defence and Space, Klaus was in charge of strategy and sales for Tesat-Spacecom, a leading provider of RF and optical equipment to the satcom industry.
Klaus holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Sensor technology, both from the University of Rostock, Germany.

 

Rainer Wansch is Head of the RF and SatCom Systems Department at Fraunhofer IIS. He graduated as Electrical Engineer (Dipl.-Ing.) from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1995.
Since 2011 he is leading the RF and SatCom Systems department and is responsible for more than 25 researchers in the fields of satellite system design, high-speed digital platforms, antennas and RF circuits. Department projects include integration of satellites in 5G (NTN), narrowband M2M satellite communication, wideband satellite transmission projects which use DVB-S2X Superframing technologies and the Fraunhofer On-Board Processor project which provides an OBP for the German Heinrich Hertz-satellite mission.

 

Dipl.-Math. Bärbel Deisting is Director of Space and Space Applications at bavAIRia e.V, the Bavarian Cluster Aerospace. Moreover, she is the German ESA Business Applications Ambassador, was member of the Scientific Committee of the Navis Centre in Hanoi and Vice-president of NEREUS the Network of European Regions Using Space Technologies. She received a degree in Mathematics from the LMU and was working until 2012 for ISTA, Universität der Bundeswehr München, ITIS e.V. and ITIS GmbH. There she was working in the field of GNSS and Galileo and was involved in national as well as in EU projects. She was a member of organizing committee of the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit until 2012. Furthermore, she has an apprenticeship as mediator.