Head of Chair of Space Systems Tel.: +49 351 463-38125 Fax: +49 351 463-38126 Email: forename.surname @ tu-dresden.de Visitor's address: Marschnerstraße 32, 01307 Dresden / Room 117 • Space Propulsion (electric- and micropropulsion, new concepts, “Breakthrough Propulsion Physics”) • Micro energy- and converter technologies • 2014–Present: Institute Director, Institute for Aerospace Engineering, TU Dresden, Germany • 2012–Present: Full Professor (W3) and Head of Space Systems Chair, Institute for Aerospace Engineering, TU Dresden, Germany • 2010–2012: Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Republic of Korea • 2011–2012: Head of Aerospace Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt, Austria • 2000–2010: Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria - Head of Business Unit „Space Propulsion & Advanced Concepts“ (2005 - 2010) - Principal Scientist (2003 - 2004) - Senior Scientist (2000 - 2002) • 1999–2000: Young-Graduate-Trainee, Electric Propulsion Section, ESTEC, European Space Agency, The Netherlands • 1998–1999: Managing Director, AUSTROSPACE (Association of Austrian Space Industries), Austria • 1998: Internship, Advanced Propulsion Group, NASA JPL, USA • 1999: PhD, Electrical Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, Austria • 1998: MSc, Space Studies, International Space University, France • 1997: MSc and BSc, Engineering Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Austria • GENIUS Ideas Competition 2009 – Special Award (Innovative Energy Storage using Metal Hydrides as Fuel Cell Energy Recovery System) • Ritter von Ghega Award – Outstanding Innovation of the Year 2009 (1st Prize – Research Centers, Innovative Hydrogen Storage in Hollow Glass Microspheres) • Outstanding Paper Award – STAIF Conference 2007 (Frame Dragging of Spinning Superconductors) • GENIUS Ideas Competition 2007 – Award for Environmental Technologies and Renewable Energy Sources (Microsphere Hydrogen Storage System) • Outstanding Paper Award – STAIF Conference 2005 (Weight Measurements of Superconductors) • Creative Scientist of the Year Award 2004 (2nd Prize) • ARCAward 2001 (1st Prize Science) • NRC Fellowship to NASA JPL (2000, declined for position at ESA ESTEC) • US Air Force Window-On-Science Award (several prizes throughout 2000-2006) • Austrian Research Community – International Communication Award (1999) • Tajmar, M., "Evaluation of Enhanced Frame-Dragging in the Vicinity of a Rotating Niobium Superconductor, Liquid Helium and a Helium Superfluid", Superconductor Science and Technology 24, 125011 (2011) • Tajmar, M., and Scharlemann, C.A., "Development of Electric and Chemical Microthrusters", International Journal of Aerospace Engineering 2011, 361215 (2011) • Tajmar, M., Vasiljevich, I., and Grienauer, W., "High Current Liquid Metal Ion Source using Porous Tungsten Multiemitters", Ultramicroscopy 111, 1-4 (2010) • Tajmar, M., "Homopolar Artificial Gravity Generator based on Frame-Dragging", Acta Astronautica 66(9-10), 1297 (2010) • Tajmar, M., Sedmik, R., and Scharlemann, C., "Numerical Simulation of SMART-1 Hall Thruster Plasma Interactions", Journal of Propulsion and Power 46(6), 1178 (2009) (invited) • Tajmar, M., Scharlemann, C., Genovese, A., Buldrini, N., Steiger, W., and Vasiljevich, I., "Liquid-Metal Ion Source Development for Space Propulsion at ARC", Ultramicroscopy 109, 422 (2009) • Hulman, M., and Tajmar, M., "Indium Ion Emission from Nanotube Fibers", Nanotechnology 18, 495709 (2007) • Tajmar, M., "Influence of Taylor Cone Size on Droplet Generation in an Indium LMIS", Applied Physics A 81(7), 1447 (2005) • Tajmar, M., Genovese, A., and Steiger, W., "Indium FEEP Microthruster Experimental Charactization", AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power 20(2), 211 (2004) • Tajmar, M., and de Matos, C.J., "Gravitomagnetic Field of a Rotating Superconductor and of a Rotating Superfluid", Physica C 385(4), 551 (2003) • Tajmar, M., and Genovese, A., "Experimental Validation of a Mass Efficiency Model for an Indium Liquid Metal Ion Source", Applied Physics A 76(6), 1003 (2003) (Rapid Communication)