Programme Committee

US-Europe Air Transportation Research and Development Symposium, 2026

Europe

• Dirk Schaefer, EUROCONTROL (EU Chair & Organization)
• Hartmut Fricke, TU Dresden, Germany (Doctoral Chair)
• Michael Schultz, Universität der Bundeswehr, Germany (Tutorial Chair)
• Aurélie Arntzen, University of Southern Norway
• Tatjana Bolic, U. of Westminster, UK
• Lorenzo Castelli, University of Trieste, Italy
• Ramon Dalmau-Codina, EUROCONTROL
• Jose Miguel de Pablo, CRIDA/Enaire, Spain
• Daniel Delahaye, ENAC, France
• Luis Delgado, U. of Westminster, UK
• Nicolas Durand, ENAC, France
• Joost Ellerbroek, TU Delft, Netherlands
• Peter Hecker, TU Braunschweig, Germany
• Jacco Hoekstra, TU Delft, Netherlands
• Eric Hoffman, EUROCONTROL
• Gokhan Inalhan, Cranfield University, UK
• Dominik Janisch, Austro Control
• Radosav Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
• Jakub Kraus, Czech Technical University
• Vladimir Kuran, Prague Airport, Czech Republic
• Javier Lopez, Boeing, Spain
• Guglielmo Lulli, Lancaster University, UK
• José Luis Muñoz, Univsitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
• Fedja Netjasov, University of Belgrade, Serbia
• Xavier Prats, UPC, Spain
• Jose J. Ramasco Spanish National Research Council
• Marta Sanchez, CRIDA/Enaire, Spain
• Christiane Schmidt, Linköping University, Sweden
• Manuel Fernando Soler, U Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Sybert Stroeve, NLR, Netherlands
• Georg Trausmuth, Frequentis, Austria
• Massimilliano Zanin, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

USA

• Eric Neiderman, FAA/ANG (US Seminar Chair & Organization)
• Max Li, University of Michigan (Communication Chair)
• David Lovell, UMD (Doctoral Chair)
• Yu Zhang, USF (Tutorial Chair)
• Kenneth Allendoerfer, FAA/ANG
• Hamsa Balakrishnan , MIT
• Christopher Dorbian, FAA/AEE
• Martin Durbin, FAA/ANG
• Alexander Estes, UMD
• Tara Gibson, FAA/ANG
• Mark Hansen, UC Berkeley
• Dan Howell, The Regulus Group
• James Jones, MIT LL
• John Koelling, NASA/Langley
• Parimal Kopardekar, NASA/Ames
• Peter Kostiuk, Robust Analytics
• Joseph Post, USF
• Almira Ramadani, FAA/ATO
• Tom Reynolds, MIT LL
• Akbar Sultan, NASA/HQ
• Dengfeng Sun, Purdue University
• Craig Wanke, MITRE CAASD
• Peng Wei, GWU
• Seth Young, The Aviation Planning Group

Middle East

• Eric Feron, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Asia

• Sameer Alam, NTU, Singapore (Communication Chair)
• Lishuai Li, City University of Hong Kong
• Xiaoqian Sun, Beihang University, China
• Yanjun Wang, Nanjing University of Aero/Astro, China

Australia

• Jesper Bronsvoort, AirServices Australia
• Annie Liang, RMIT University, Australia