Keynote Speaker

Chuck Farrar has 25 years experience as a technical staff member, project leader, and team leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is currently the leader of The Engineering Institute at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research interests focus on developing integrated hardware and software solutions to structural health monitoring problems and the development of damage prognosis technology. The results of this research have been documented in more than 300 publications as well as numerous keynote lectures at international conferences. He is currently working jointly with engineering faculty at University of California, San Diego to develop the Los Alamos/UCSD Engineering Institute with a research focus on Damage Prognosis. Additional professional activities include current appointments to associate editor positions for the Int. Journal of Structural Health Monitoring and the development of a short course entitled Structural Health Monitoring: A Statistical Pattern Recognition Approach that has been offered more than 17 times to industry and government agencies in Asia, Australia, Europe and the U.S.

Matthias Buderath - Aeronautical Engineer with more than 20 years experience in Aircraft Engineering. in the domains of Fatigue and Damage Tolerance, Structural Integrity Management and New Concepts and Technologies for Aircraft Operability and Mission Reliability Assurance.
He started his professional life in the Helicopter Division of EADS as System Engineer responsible for Flight Mechanics. Afterwards he move to the Fixed Wing Military Division of EADS and worked for more than 8 years in Fatigue and Damage Tolerance and supported the Fighter Aircraft Programs Tornado and Eurofighter. In 1992 he became Program Manager of the Tri-National Tornado Structural Integrity Programme which covered also the Structural Life Extension Programme for the ADV Tornado version. In the year 2000 he became Chief Engineer and took over the design responsibility of an integrated maintenance and support information system for the new Trainer Aircraft MAKO.
Today he is Chief Engineer and Head of new "Concepts and Service Technologies" which covers the management and technical co-ordination of Research and Development activities in the domains of Customer Service, Training and Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul in the EADS Business Unit Military Air Systems. Major focus of research is the development of an Integrated Health Monitoring and Management System for unmanned aerial vehicles. He has published more the 50 papers in the field of Structural Health Management, Integrated Health Monitoring and Management, Structural Integrity Programme Management and Maintenance- and Fleet Information Management Systems. He is Member of several international Working Groups related to Through Life Cycle Management, Availability Management and Structural Health Management. e.g. AISC