Julian grew up in Austria, his single dad working 70 hours+ building his business. He built his first remote controlled boat at 6 years old, then taught himself to build drones when he was 8. He then got accepted to Austria’s most selective high school, focused on highly gifted students.

At 16, he started his first space venture after inventing a way to land on Mars 100x more cheaply. After winning an international competition against thousands of competitors, he became the youngest person ever to receive European Space Agency funding at 19, and scaled the venture to 85 people across 4 continents.

At the same time he was studying Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft, and graduated with the best Thesis of his year.

He is one of those rare breeds; he’s unbelievably smart, very personable and humble. Now, he’s building Tumbleweed to radically unlock microgravity manufacturing.