2025 Fellow

Presented to: Dr. Michael Meurer

Citation: For sustained and visionary leadership and technical
contributions advancing secure, high-integrity, and
resilient PNT

Dr. Michael Meurer’s research includes satellite navigation system evolution using optical inter-satellite links for next-generation Galileo and LEO PNT, new cyber-proof user terminals for GNSS, interference and spoofing mitigation, error modeling and integrity of positioning, and assured multisensorial navigation for safety-critical applications.

Over the past 15 years, Dr. Meurer built a team at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and at RWTH Aachen University that became a significant global player in navigation. Under his leadership, his team developed the multi-antenna GNSS receiver GALANT, resilience against jamming beyond J/S = 120 dB—with effective spoofing detection and suppression. His team was the first to develop a complete CAT III GAST-D demonstrator and perform the world’s first GAST-D validation in a flight campaign with the DLR aircraft ATTAS. His threat model for ionospheric fronts for Germany was the basis for the operational certification of the first GBAS station (for CAT I from Honeywell). His group was the first to develop a complete concept for Dual-Frequency-Multi- Constellation-GBAS (DFMC-GBAS), for which DLR also developed the first demonstrator and validated with flight tests.

As an educator, Prof. Meurer developed courses and has supervised numerous MSc and PhD theses. He is a prolific author and inventor with more than 40 patents and a member of international expert and advisory groups. He is an associate editor of NAVIGATION, the Journal of the Institute of Navigation.

Dr. Meurer is the head of the Department of Navigation at DLR’s Institute of Communications and Navigation. He is also a professor of electrical engineering and director of the Institute of Navigation at the RWTH Aachen University and senior lecturer at the Technical University of Munich. He has served as the chair of the executive board of Munich Aerospace since 2023. Dr. Meurer received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.