Brian J. German  —  Biography

Brian German is the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) Langley Associate Professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. His research involves aircraft electric propulsion, autonomous flight, and the emerging aviation markets that these technologies enable. He specializes in configuration design of electric aircraft, aerodynamics of distributed propulsion, battery and hybrid electric propulsion modeling, operations research problems for innovative scheduled and on-demand air services, and aircraft operational economics modeling. His work focuses primarily on new types of electric regional aircraft and eVTOL aircraft for urban air mobility. Prof. German is a founding member and former Chair (2014-2016) of the AIAA Transformational Flight Program Committee, which was chartered to explore the opportunities of emerging aircraft electric propulsion and autonomy technologies, and he is a member of the AIAA Aircraft Electric Propulsion and Power Working Group. Prof. German is a former Fulbright student scholar and NDSEG Graduate Research Fellow, and he received the NSF CAREER award in 2012. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA.

Education

• Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007

• MS, Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000

• BS, Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999

Experience

• Langley Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, March 2015 – Present

• Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, August 2014 – March 2015

• Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, August 2008 – July 2014

• Research Engineer II, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2007 – August 2008

• Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology, June 1999 – May 2007

• Fulbright Student Scholar, Technical University Berlin, July 2002 – July 2003

• Engineering Co-Op, GE Aircraft Engines, March 1996 – September 1998

Honors and Awards

• AIAA Associate Fellow, 2017

• National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering, 2015

• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2012

• Lockheed Martin Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award, 2012

• Sigma Gamma Tau Outstanding Aerospace Engineering Professor Award, 2011

• Northrop Grumman Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011

• Fulbright Scholarship, TU Berlin, Germany, 2002

• AIAA Gordon C. Oates Airbreathing Propulsion Graduate Award, 2001

• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow, 1999

• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, 1999