Marcus Holzinger

Prof. Holzinger is a Hatfield Endowed Professor of Space Policy and Law in the Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. In this department he has served as both the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and the Associate Director for the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR). His research focuses on theoretical and empirical aspects of space domain awareness, in which he has authored or co-authored over 100 conference and journal papers. Dr. Holzinger has made fundamental advances in low signal-to-noise ratio detection and tracking, telescope tasking to resolve hypotheses, lightcurve inversion, and reachability theory.

He joined Smead Aerospace in 2018 after six years on the Georgia Tech faculty, where he led construction of multiple Raven-Class Space Situational Awareness telescopes (GT- SORT), the Omnidirectional Space Situational Awareness (OmniSSA) Array, and served as Principal Investigator for an Air Force CubeSat program (RECONnaissance of Space Objects). Holzinger also previously worked at Northrop Grumman and Aerojet. In the summer of 2019 Prof. Holzinger hosted the AFRL Non-Resolvable SOI Workshop.

He is a recipient of an AFOSR Young Investigator Award and the National Academies Grainger Award, and is a National Academies selectee for the US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Dr. Holzinger is an AIAA Associate Fellow.

Education

Ph.D, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, 2011
M.S., Aeronautics & Astronautics Engineering, University of Washington, 2005
B.S., Aeronautics & Astronautics Engineering, University of Washington, 2003