Malte Gradetzke has been working as a Propulsion Systems Engineer at Dawn Aerospace since April 2022. Prior to that, they were part of the German Trainee Program at the Technology Development Office in ESA/ESTEC from March 2020 to February 2022. Malte completed their Master Thesis at ArianeGroup from May 2019 to February 2020. Additionally, they worked as a Studentische Hilfskraft at Fraunhofer IPA from December 2018 to March 2019. Malte's work experience began with their Bachelor Thesis at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V. in October 2015 and ended in September 2016.
Malte Gradetzke completed their Bachelor of Science degree in Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik, Aeronautik und Astronautik/Raumfahrttechnik from the University of Stuttgart in the years 2012 to 2016. After completing their undergraduate studies, they pursued a Master of Science degree in the same field at the same university from 2016 to 2019. In 2018, they also had a brief stint at ISAE-SUPAERO, where they pursued Ingenieurwissenschaften.
April, 2022 - present
Propulsion Systems Engineer at Impulse Space Propulsion
Propulsion Systems Engineer at Skydweller
Propulsion Systems Engineer at PT Dirgantara Indonesia (Indonesian Aerospace)
Propulsion Systems Engineer at TNO
Propulsion Systems Engineer at Thales Alenia Space