María Crespo Estrada holds a double MSc in Aerospace Engineering by the Technical University of Madrid and Computational Software and Techniques in Engineering by Cranfield University. She has worked as an Advanced Engineer for five years in GMV in the field of GNSS high accuracy positioning with a high focus in GNSS Integrity. She is currently leading the development and integration GMV GSharp Safe and Accurate Positioning Engine in Autonomous Driving Application for automotive customers.

Maxime Loil is a Systems Engineer specializing in star trackers at Sodern, a subsidiary of ArianeGroup. He graduated from École Polytechnique in France and has an expertise in navigation, optronics, and algorithmics. His professional experience includes contributions to the development and improvement of daytime star trackers, which are essential for autonomous navigation systems. The presentation will focus on how star trackers can be hybridized with inertial navigation systems to achieve accurate and resilient positioning, even in GNSS-denied environments.

Benjamin Braun has been working at DLR’s German Space Operations Center since 2013 and is head of the GNSS Technology and Navigation group. He works on real-time precise orbit determination systems for LEO satellites and hybrid navigation systems for sounding rocket and launch vehicles comprising inertial sensors and GNSS receivers. He received his PhD from the Technische Universität München in 2016 on the topic of “High Performance Kalman Filter Tuning for Integrated Navigation Systems”.