Juergen Pleitner

Juergen Pleitner serves as the Head of FAF Fuselage Architecture & New Developments at Airbus, a position held since January 2022. Prior to this role, Juergen held various leadership positions at Airbus Defence and Space and Airbus, including Head of Flight Physics and Head of Wind Tunnel Technology Development, among others. With extensive experience in stress, design, and structure analyses, Juergen has a strong background in aerospace engineering, having worked on key projects such as the A350XWB. Academically, Juergen served as a Research and Teaching Assistant at Technische Universität Braunschweig, focusing on composites, ceramics, and hypersonic vehicles, and earned a Diplom-Ingenieur in Aerospace Engineering from the same university.