{"id":11148,"date":"2025-03-12T09:29:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T09:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceas.org\/?page_id=11148"},"modified":"2025-03-12T10:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:58:10","slug":"ceas-awards-johann-dietrich-worner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ceas.org\/index.php\/ceas-awards-johann-dietrich-worner\/","title":{"rendered":"CEAS Awards Johann Dietrich-W\u00f6rner"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n2022 Prof Johann Dietrich-W\u00f6rner <\/b><\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Professor W\u00f6rner has made many highly significant contributions in the engineering, aeronautical and space domains. As President of the Technical University Darmstadt, he created the first autonomous university in Germany. As Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center from 2007, he evolved the original loose association of institutes into a jointly-operating research centre. As ESA Director General from 2015 to 2021, he focussed on Member State cooperation to achieve the Agency\u2019s goals, securing a significant increase in Member State contributions at the latest Ministerial Council end 2019, totalling 14.5 billion Euros and greater than had been requested.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Jan W\u00f6rner\u2019s career at the Technical University (TU) Darmstadt began in 1990, initially as Professor of <\/span>
Civil Engineering then taking over as Head of the Test and Research Institute, and later held the position <\/span>
of Dean of the newly established Civil Engineering Faculty.<\/span><\/p>

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He was elected as President of TU Darmstadt in 1995 heading the university until 2007. By 2005 he had <\/span>
succeeded in making it the first autonomous university in the Federal Republic of Germany. <\/span>
As Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) from 2007 to 2015, he <\/span>
created a jointly-operating research centre out of the original loose association of institutes. In this role, <\/span>
he was the Head of the German delegation to the European Space Agency (ESA), also serving as <\/span>
Chairman of the ESA Council from 2012 to 2014.<\/span><\/p>

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Nominated Director General of ESA in 2015, and noting the paradigm shift occurring at that time, he <\/span>
placed his initial four-year mandate under the theme of \u201cSpace 4.0\u201d representing a new path of space <\/span>
travel into the future, encompassing many aspects including New Space and commercialisation and <\/span>
involving new roles, motivations, actors and technologies and to create a \u201cUnited Space in Europe\u201d. <\/span>
And the latest meeting of the ESA Ministerial Council held at the end of 2019 in Seville, was a huge <\/span>
success: the Director General called for 14.3 billion Euros from the Member States, but received <\/span>
commitments totalling 14.5 billion.<\/span><\/p>

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Jan W\u00f6rner has praised the outstanding success of the ESA-developed satellite navigation system <\/span>
Galileo, a system three times more accurate than the American GPS, and is highly aware of the need to <\/span>
reduce space debris, which poses collision risks for satellites.<\/span><\/p>

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Another great legacy is Jan W\u00f6rner\u2019s \u201cMoon Village\u201c, his vision of a community settlement on the moon, <\/span>
which he refers to as a Multi Partner Open Concept. Today, with the NASA Artemis multi-national Moon <\/span>
programme commencing with the “Lunar Gateway” also involving private sector players like Elon Musk <\/span>
and Jeff Bezos, his vision is in reach. As he says “No coincidence. ESA explicitly stands for cooperation. <\/span>
In space, things only work together.”<\/span><\/p>

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Prof. W\u00f6rner has been awarded numerous prizes and positions, such as the Prize of the Organisation of <\/span>
Friends of Technical University Darmstadt for \u2018outstanding scientific performance\u2019.<\/span><\/p>

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He was also appointed to the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and to the Convention for <\/span>
Technical Sciences (acatech) and is a representative of the Technical Sciences Section of the <\/span>
Leopoldina, the national academy of sciences of Germany.<\/span><\/p>

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Prof. W\u00f6rner has received honorary doctorates from New York State University at Buffalo (USA), <\/span>
technical universities of Bucharest (Romania) and Mongolia, the Saint Petersburg University for <\/span>
Economics and Finance (Russia) and \u00c9cole Centrale de Lyon (France).<\/span><\/p>

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He has received the Federal Cross of Merit (Officer’s cross, 1st class) of the Federal Republic of <\/span>
Germany for his continuous efforts regarding the next generation of scientists and Germany as a location <\/span>
for Science, Technology and Engineering.<\/span><\/p>

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He was awarded the honours of Knight of the French L\u00e9gion d\u2019Honneur and an Honorary Fellowship of <\/span>
the Royal Aeronautical Society.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Nominated by<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Howard R Nye FRAeS, President & Chair of the Space Group, Royal Aeronautical Society<\/span><\/p>


Prof David Southwood CBE FRAeS, Senior Research Investigator, Imperial College, London<\/span><\/p>


Jenny Body OBE FRAeS, Past President & Chair of RAeS Awards Committee, Royal Aeronautical <\/span>
Society<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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2022 Prof Johann Dietrich-W\u00f6rner Professor W\u00f6rner has made many highly significant contributions in the engineering, aeronautical and space domains. As President of the Technical University Darmstadt, he created the first autonomous university in Germany. As Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center from 2007, he evolved the original loose association of institutes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11148","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11148"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/ceas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11208,"href":"https:\/\/ceas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11148\/revisions\/11208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}