That's me!

My name is Tanja Lehmann, I am born in Offenburg in the Kinzig valley and currently living in Munich.

After my Abitur (german high school graduation) I spent a year in the United States with a Navajo family.

After that I became a doctor's receptionist and worked in this profession for two years.

Then I decided to go a new way and studied electrical engineering / communication technologies at the University of Applied Sciences Offenburg. For my first practical semester I worked at Marconi Communications in Offenburg. I spent my 2nd practical semester at Eurospace in Floeha near Chemnitz. You can find a summary of my work here (german, PDF 119 KB). I wrote my diploma thesis in cooperation with the Institute of Astronautics of the Technical University in Munich and the German Space Agency in Oberpfaffenhofen on the project BayernSat.

Currently I am working as a test engineer in an aerospace company located close to Munich.

Since I was a child I was fascinated by everything that had to do with space travel and weightlessness. Then in September 2002 I had the occasion to participate in ESA's 5th Student Parabolic flight campaign, which was a very interesting experience and gave me a first insight into space sciences.