Public lecture by Roland Brockers
Thursday, June 05, 2025 at 05 p.m. @ Lecture Hall 1, University of Klagenfurt
Saturn, with its distinctive ring system, is one of the most impressive planets in our solar system. Roland Brockers will take the audience attending his public lecture on Thursday, 5 June (5 p.m., Lecture Hall 1, University of Klagenfurt) on an exciting journey to the ringed planet with the largest number of known moons in the solar system. Roland Brockers is Professor of Modular Robotic Systems in the Control of Networked Systems group and a researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology in California. This public lecture continues his series of Space Exploration Lectures delivered during his teaching visit to Klagenfurt.
“Not only is the sheer size of this gas giant and the breathtaking beauty of its rings mesmerizing, it also holds the record for the planet with the most known moons – many of them covered by ice, some of them with a subsurface ocean and a moon with an atmosphere denser than Earth: Titan”, says Roland Brockers, who will be returning to the University of Klagenfurt in early summer to offer courses on robotic visual perception for students of robotics and information and communications engineering. However, it is not only students who stand to benefit from his stay; anyone interested in space exploration is welcome to attend his public lecture: “In this talk, we will examine Saturn, the history of its exploration, and have a look at its unique moons that may hold key ingredients for past or present life, making them prime locations for our next robotic explorers,” he announces.
Roland Brockers received his doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Paderborn in 2005 and has been conducting research in the field of image-based, autonomous navigation of robotic systems for more than 25 years. He has been working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, since 2007.
Brockers was involved in the development of the Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) system of the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity, the CADRE rover mission to the Moon, and many other NASA projects.
The English language lecture is part of the Space Exploration Lecture Series. No registration is necessary.
