Astronaut Prof. Dr. Ulrich Walter: Keynote speaker at Cleanzone in Frankfurt

He has seen the Earth from space, and now he is working to send the next generation there too: Dr. Ulrich Walter, Astronaut and Professor of Aerospace Technology, is the keynote speaker at the Cleanzone Congress in Frankfurt am Main, a new knowledge platform that is being launched alongside Cleanzone, the international cleanroom technology trade fair, on 24 and 25 October 2012.

In “Clean Room, Clean Space – Cleanroom Technology in Space Missions”, his keynote address on the first day of the congress, Prof. Dr. Walter will be discussing his work in space, “marriage” in a cleanroom and the vital importance of cleanliness in the laboratory. Dr. Walter, an experienced astronaut, does not mince words: “Cleanliness is absolutely essential for success in outer space. This is true not only for the quality of the scientific results achieved, but for survival in the space station itself.” In 1993, Dr. Walter was sent into space with the D2 mission as a payload specialist. Today he conducts research and teaches at Munich Technical University, where he is also building satellites for current space travel projects.

Cleanzone – trade fair and congress
The Cleanzone Congress in Frankfurt is a new international and cross-industry knowledge platform for cleanroom technology that will provide both users and manufacturers with in-depth and independent scientific knowledge. Among the international experts speaking will be Koos Agricola (ICCCS International Confederation of Contamination Control Societies), Dr. Udo Gommel (Fraunhofer IPA), Conor Murray (3dimension Cleanroom and Chairman of the Irish Cleanroom Society), Joachim Ludwig (Colandis), Gabriele Schmeer-Lioe (Denkendorf Institute of Textile and Process Engineering) and Florian Dittel (Dittel Engineering).

The congress will be taking place alongside Cleanzone, the new trade fair geared towards all companies and sectors that already use cleanrooms or that are planning to introduce them in the near future. Cleanzone visitors include decision-makers from the fields of chemicals, medicine, and pharmaceuticals, the food sector, nanotechnology, optics, laser technology, microelectronics, and the automotive and aerospace industries. Exhibitors include manufacturers of cleanroom facilities and technology, components and associated consumables such as BSR, CAS Clean-Air-Service, Colandis, Decontam, Dycem, Hydroflex, Kimberly-Clark, PPS Pfennig, Weiss and WISAG.

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