Pranav Bhardwaj, M.Sc., works as a scientific assistant at the Institute of Flight System Dynamics, Technische Universität München (TUM). In 2017, he finished masters in aerospace engineering at TUM-Asia, Singapore. Since June 2017, he is a PhD candidate under supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Florian Holzapfel. His research area is development of nonlinear control strategies for novel VTOL transition aircraft configurations and multicopters.