Prof. Dr. Ulrich Walter
Chair, Technische Universität München
Ulrich Walter, born in 1954, is a professor at the Chair of Astrodynamics at the Technical University of Munich. After studying physics at the University of Cologne, he spent a year at the US research laboratory Argonne National Laboratories in Chicago, followed by a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. From there, he was appointed to the German astronaut team in 1987 and trained at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne-Porz and at NASA's Space Center in Houston until his shuttle mission D-2, which took place from April 26 to May 6, 1993. In 1994, he joined the German Remote Sensing Data Center of the DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich as project manager of the major project “German Satellite Data Archive.” In 1998, he moved to the IBM Development Laboratory in Böblingen as program manager, where he worked as project manager and lead.
