{"id":81355,"date":"2018-06-08T08:36:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T07:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speakersacademy.com\/speaker\/ulrich-walter-2\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T17:42:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:42:46","slug":"ulrich-walter","status":"publish","type":"sa_speaker","link":"https:\/\/www.speakersacademy.com\/en\/speaker\/ulrich-walter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulrich Walter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. Ulrich Walter, born in 1954, is a full professor at the Chair of Space Technology at the Technical Elite University of Munich. After studying physics at the University of Cologne, he spent a year at the US research lab Argonne National Laboratories, Chicago, followed by a year as a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n

From there, he was appointed to the German astronaut team in 1987 and trained for his Shuttle Mission D-2, from April 26 to May 6, 1993, at the German Aerospace Center, DLR, in Cologne-Porz and at NASA’s space center in Houston. In 1994, he became the project manager of the major project “German Satellite Data Archive” at the German Remote Sensing Data Center of the DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich.<\/p>\n

In 1998, he moved to the IBM Development Lab in B\u00f6blingen as Program Manager, where he was responsible as project manager and lead consultant for the development and consulting of IBM software products.<\/p>\n

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Since March 2003, he has been leading the Chair of Space Technology at the Technical University of Munich, teaching and researching in the field of applied space technology and systems engineering. His focus areas are real-time robotics in space and service robotics, particularly robotic assistance for the elderly (Geriatronics).<\/p>\n

He researches and teaches systems engineering, the empirical science of developing and optimizing complex products and processes in companies. As a trained project manager, he advises companies worldwide, especially in the areas of quality and risk management. Mr. Walter is the author of seven books, including the photo book about his shuttle mission “In 90 Minutes Around the Earth” and the three Spiegel non-fiction bestsellers “Im Schwarzen Loch ist der Teufel los” (2016), “H\u00f6llenritt durch Raum und Zeit” (2017), and “Eine andere Sicht auf die Welt” (2018).<\/p>\n

He has published over 100 technical articles in international journals, is a publicist of space articles, and wrote weekly columns on Welt.de from 2013-16. From 1998 to 2003, he hosted the science program MaxQ on Bavarian Television, from 2011-12 the show “Unterwegs durchs All mit Ulrich Walter” and various special programs on the National Geographic Channel. In 2013, he hosted the show “Hubble Mission Universe” on ServusTV. Since September 2016, he has been hosting the pop.<\/p>\n

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Ulrich Walter is among other things<\/h4>\n