Dr. Peter H. Zipfel is a graduate of the University Stuttgart, Germany, and the Catholic University of America with a PhD in aerospace engineering. Twenty years ago, he founded Modeling and Simulation Technologies, which is devoted to consult and instruct in the functional integration of aerospace system using computer simulations.

Over 35 years he taught courses in flight dynamics, guidance & control, and modeling & simulation at the University of Florida; and over the span of fifty years he created aerospace simulations of helicopters, missiles, aircraft, rockets and hypersonic vehicles for the German Helicopter Institute, the U.S. Army, and U.S. Air Force. He is an AIAA Associate Fellow and an internationally recognized short course instructor.