ESA's New Astronaut Graduates - Andreas Mogensen

Andreas Mogensen

European Space Agency astronaut

Personal data

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark on 2 November 1976. He enjoys rugby, basketball, squash, fitness training and trail running. He also enjoys adventure travelling, such as canoeing, kayaking, and mountaineering. His other interests include general science, in particular space exploration, astrobiology and evolution, literature and politics. He also builds and flies remote-controlled airplanes.

Education

Mogensen graduated with an International Baccalaureate from Copenhagen International School in Denmark in 1995. In 1999, he received a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from Imperial College London, in the United Kingdom. He received a doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, in the United States in 2007.

Organisations

Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Astronautical Society (AAS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Institute of Navigation (ION) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DGLR).

Experience

Mogensen worked for Schlumberger as a drilling services engineer on an offshore oil rig in the Republic of Congo and the Republic of Angola between 2000 and 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he worked as a control systems engineer at Vestas Wind Systems in Denmark.

From 2004 to 2007, whilst working towards his doctorate, Mogensen worked as a research assistant at the Center for Space Research and as a teaching assistant in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, in the United States.

From 2007 to 2008, he was employed as an attitude & orbit control systems engineer by HE Space Operations. He was contracted out to EADS Astrium in Friedrichshafen, Germany for the duration of this employment.

From 2008 until his astronaut selection in 2009, Mogensen was employed as a research fellow at the Surrey Space Centre at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. His research focused on spacecraft guidance, navigation and control during entry, descent and landing.

Mogensen was selected as an ESA astronaut in May 2009 and graduated on 22 November 2010.