Andreas KNOPP is a German professor of satellite communications technologies. Since 2015, he has been the Chair Holder of Signal Processing and the Director of the Munich Center of Space Communications research facility at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. In addition, he is now a chairperson of SPACE, the largest German interdisciplinary research center on space technologies. In 2020, Prof. Knopp became a board member of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and in 2023 he was appointed as a Senator of DLR. He is an advisor to the German Ministry of Defence, and a Visting professor of Naval Postgraduate School Monterey (CA), USA. He is also a member of the expert committee on radio systems in the German society of information technologies (VDE/ITG), and an IEEE Senior Member. Prof. Knopp has authored and co-authored about 160 publications on radio systems and space communications technologies, including 30 journal publications and several patents. He is also an enthusiastic entrepreneur and co-founder of multiple startups.Prof. Knopp holds a master’s degree in information technology (2002) and a Ph.D. in wireless communications (2008), both from the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. In 2010, he received an Executive MBA degree from Gutenberg School of Business Mainz.INTERNET:www.unibw.de/satcomwww.unibw.de/space