Christian Brommer is a postdoctoral fellow at ORAU, working with the Autonomous Mobility and Tactical Reasoning Group at the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Klagenfurt, where he specialized in multi-sensor fusion and state estimation under the supervision of Prof. Stephan Weiss in the Control of Networked Systems (CNS) group. He defended his dissertation, “Advancing True Modularity in Sensor Fusion with Sensor Model Identification for Robotic Mobility,” in 2024. He previously earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund, Germany.
His background includes research roles at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where he contributed to UAV autonomy, localization, and long-duration operations. His academic and industry experience spans autonomous systems for Mars analog missions, GNSS-denied drone navigation, and resilient system architectures for field robotics. He served as principal investigator for the AMAZE project during the AMADEE-20 Mars simulation mission, organized by the Austrian Space Forum. He also developed the MaRS (Modular and Robust State-estimation) framework – an approach which was patented. The system earned the 2023 KWF Science and Innovation Prize and was nominated for the 2024 Austrian Houska Prize.