Thomas Zill Head, Air Vehicle Concepts Institute for System Architectures in Aeronautics

Dr. Thomas Zill is the Head of Air Vehicle Concepts and deputy head of the DLR Institute of System Architectures in Aeronautics in Hamburg, Germany. He earned a diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) in automotive engineering and shortly after a diploma in aerospace engineering from the University of Technology of Braunschweig, Germany. He has received a PhD degree in Aerospace Sciences from the University of Technology Hamburg for his work in the field of collaborative multidisciplinary design optimization for air vehicle design.

Prior to joining to DLR he worked as a Senior Consultant in Program Transformation Management for Capgemini Consulting, where he focused on the digital transformation in supply chain management in the European aerospace sector. He is a certified PMI project management professional (PMP) and has 10+ years of experience in the field of vehicle design and optimization. At DLR his work focuses on the coordination of research projects in the frame of Clean Sky 2 with focus on the mitigation of climate impact of aviation.