Dr Jochen Kaiser

Head of “Visionary Aircraft Concepts” at Bauhaus Luftfahrt e.V.

Dr. Jochen Kaiser is Head of “Visionary Aircraft Concepts” since he joined Bauhaus Luftfahrt in 2016 coming from Airbus Defence & Space GmbH, where he led different teams in the Future Projects department for aircraft definition with a focus on unmanned air vehicles. In this period, he was Certification & Safety Manager for the solar powered HAPS and pilot for the Airbus Zephyr UAV. Before he was head of a Systems Engineering department, UAV Product Integration Manager in the Technology Demonstrators & Innovation department and started at Airbus in the Human Factors Engineering department in 2002 on the A400M cockpit definition. He studied mechanical engineering with specialization on aerospace at the Braunschweig University and wrote his doctoral thesis on a Stereoscopic Head-Up Display at the Darmstadt University.

Bauhaus Luftfahrt e.V. is the aviation think tank from Germany and an interdisciplinary research institution funded by the four aerospace companies Airbus, Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft (IABG), Liebherr-Aerospace, and MTU Aero Engines as well as grants from the Bavarian Ministry for
Economic Affairs, Media, Energy, and Technology and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The nonprofit association is an internationally oriented think tank. Its team of around 50 employees deals with the future of mobility in general and with the development of air travel in particular. The goal of
the research work is to consider the complex system of aviation from different points of view. In every project, the technical, economic, social, and ecological aspects are considered holistically.