Olivier de Weck

Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems; Associate Department Head, Aeronautics and Astronautics

Olivier de Weck is the Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He earned degrees in Industrial Engineering from ETH Zurich and Aerospace Systems from MIT where he is the faculty director of the Engineering Systems Laboratory (http://systems.mit.edu)

His main research is in Systems Engineering with a focus on how complex technological systems are designed and how they evolve over time. He has authored or co-authored over 400 publications for which he has been recognized with twelve best paper awards since 2004. He is a Fellow of INCOSE and a Fellow of AIAA where he is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. As a former Senior Vice President of Technology Planning and Roadmapping at Airbus in Toulouse, France he was responsible for roadmapping a $1-billion R&D portfolio for the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer.

His passion is to improve life on our home planet Earth through research and education in design and systems engineering, while paving the way for humanity’s future off-world settlements.