DC11 – Mateusz Mazurkiewicz
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft – und Raumfahrt (DLR)
Mateusz Mazurkiewicz is a doctoral researcher in the Quantum Communication Systems Group at German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Munich, Germany, within the FOCAL MSCA Doctoral Network. He earned a B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering with honours from TU Delft, Netherlands (minor in Physics, thesis on optical communication) and an M.Sc. in Autonomous Systems from DTU, Denmark, including an exchange semester at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and an internship in the Optoelectronics section at ESTEC, European Space Agency. There, he developed PyPAT, a Python library for laser communication Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking, and documented it in a paper for the International Conference on Space Optics.
In early 2025 he defended an M.Sc. thesis presenting a spatially-compact neuromorphic Photonic Integrated Circuit architecture for AI inference acceleration. He is interested in various forms of computation and foundational questions about reality.
DC11 – Project research
His PhD focuses on the joint design of QKD and classical FSO communication within a single spaceborne node. The emphasis is on the differing requirements of the two modalities within one terminal, and their efficient integration. Beyond the physical layer, the classical link performs post-processing for QKD protocols. Here, Mateusz’s focus is on authentication. Within the FOCAL MSCA Doctoral Network, this research contributes to the future security and resilience of EU telecommunications.