Gaia People

Matthias Erdmann

European Space Agency

Matthias Erdmann took his Dipl.-Ing. Photographical Engineering studies at the University of Applied Science in Cologne and graduated in 1990. He then joined Steinheil (Munich) and worked as an optical designer and Kayser-Threde (also in Munich) as a system engineer. In January 2006, he joined the Gaia Project team (ESTEC) as a PLM engineer. He is responsible for aspects like:

• Optics and optical components procurement (telescopes, photometer, spectrometer, basic angle monitor, wave front sensor)
• Ceramic structures (mirrors, torus) and PLM bipods
• Mechanisms (M2 mechanisms, bipod and release mechanism, GSE)
• Optical alignment and AIT

[Published: 07/02/2012]