Ulf Breuer has studied mechanical engineering at the universities of Darmstadt, Manchester und Kaiserslautern, where he graduated in 1993. After his military service he worked as scientific assistant at the Institute of Composite Materials in Kaiserslautern. After he received his doctorate degree from the University of Kaiserslautern in 1997, he accepted a position at the ... Read moreGerman Aerospace Center (DLR), where he worked on the development of advanced composite wing structures. In 1999 he joined Airbus and worked as a project leader of new high lift devices structure technology. In 2002 he accepted the position as head of composite technology Airbus Germany, in which he was responsible for material and process development and qualification. From 2006 to 2010 he was leading the fuselage structure development for future aircraft at the Airbus headquarters in Toulouse. In 2010 he received a call from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern for a full professorship on composite technology as well as for the management of the Institute of Composite Materials. Ulf Breuer holds various airframe patents and has published textbooks and scientific papers on composite technology. He is an active member of the DGM (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Materialkunde), the DGLR (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Luft-und Raumfahrt-Lilienthal-Oberth e.V.) and the VDI (Verein Deutscher Ingenieure). Show Less