Christian Janke

Associate Professor of the Practice and Program Coordinator

Christian.Janke@erau.edu

Department of Aeronautics

Worldwide College of Aviation

Areas of Expertise

Technical Due Diligence for IoT, Machine Learning, Blockchain, aviation, electromobility and security technology.

Christian Janke

Overview

Christian Janke is an instructor with Embry-Riddle's Worldwide Campus and an Assistant Professor in the College of Aviation.  Christian instructs at courses about Unmanned Systems in multi-domain-environments and their applications. 

Christian has been in military service for 14 years as air operations officer and helicopter pilot. He served in several multinational staff deployments, responsible for Public Affairs and Strategic Communication. He is an auditor for quality management, also a trainer for Human Factors & Crew Resource Management and an instructor for Safety Management and Risk Assessment. 

Christian's research focus is on Unmanned Systems, robotics and autonomy. Especially in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) he focuses on their capabilities, protection against misuse, business models, and regulatory environment. In this function he is a Research Fellow at the European Aviation Security Center.

M.S. - Master of Science in Aeronautics: Aviation Aerospace Management and Unmanned Aerospace Systems, ²ÝÝ®ÊÓÆµ

Trainer for Human Factors & Crew Resource Management, Instructor for Safety Management and Risk Assessment in Aviation and Auditor for Quality Management

He is an active member of numerous industry associations (including UAV DACH, BDLI) and works on standardization topics at DIN and EUROCAE. Furthermore, he advises the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) as a subject matter expert, as well as the German Federal Government in the National Advisory Council on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Research

  • (Christian Janke) AI Summit (2025)
  • (BRC) Building Resilient Communities (2022)
  • (Hopfe, David H, Lee, Kiljae, Yu, Chunyan) AMCIS 2022 Proceedings (2022)
  • (Wei, Siqing) Distance Library Services Conference (2022)
  • (Allyas, Kevin) Discovery Day - Prescott (2022)
  • (Brent Terwilliger, Brent A. Terwilliger, Scott Burgess, Scott S. Burgess, James Solti, Jim P. Solti, Kristine Kiernan, Kristine M. Kiernan, Christian Janke, Andrew Shepherd) Publications (2019)
  • (Kristine Kiernan, Kristine M. Kiernan, Christian Janke, Kenneth Witcher) Publications (2018)