German Aerospace Center scientific flights of fancy

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Ad At the German Aerospace Center there are exciting research projects to discover - also for computer scientists! Read how a researcher makes the airspace fit for the drone traffic of the future.

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As a child, she wanted to take off herself, Today Dagi Ghost keeps an eye on aircraft from the ground. After her studies, she entered the German Aerospace Center (DLR) as a Phd student and became project manager shortly after her doctorate. Now it has been working on drone technologies for ten years and has the specialist management of all research projects that are concerned with the integration of drones into the airspace at the DLR Institute for Air Traffic Management.

Dagi Geister runs the research projects of the DLR Institute for Air Traffic 

Management and, among other things, researches the integration of drones into the airspace.

"I am interested in how the airspace of the future can be made as safe as possible - especially with regard to drones and their various uses," explains Dagi Geister her research field. Your mission: to coordinate the airspace above the city in such a way that unmanned aircraft can assume completely new tasks in the future.

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Dagi Geister is particularly interested in the use of drones. It coordinates airspace in such a way that unmanned aircraft can fly without risk.

DLR carries out research in the fields of aeronautics, space, energy, transport, security and digitisation. At 27 locations, scientists develop emission-free flying technologies, design modern traffic management systems, and transfer robots using artificial intelligence (AI) able to independently find solutions to complex challenges. The pioneering research projects have one thing in common: the focus is always on the added value of technologies and constant progress. Goals that can best be achieved in various teams. People from many nations and disciplines are therefore working on the scientific institutions and institutes of the DLR. With engineering, computer science, natural sciences, geosciences, economics, psychology or medicine, the most diverse disciplines are represented.

At the DLR, you can combine work and family with flexible working hours. 

Since her re-entry after parental leave, Dagi Geister has led her specialist group in part-time. As a mother, she has the best framework conditions for her research work at the DLR and can combine them with the family. The valuable environment combined with excellent technical infrastructure is and remains an excellent basis for high-altitude scientific flights.