Pascal Thalin is President and CEO of Aero Mobility, a company engaged with engineering and development of advanced air mobility solutions. In various leadership roles with Aircraft, Engine and System manufacturers, he has gained longstanding experience in R&D, Certification, Program Management, and Business Development of Power, Propulsion, Actuation, and Avionics Systems for a wide range of aircraft. He is a long-standing member of SAE in Aeronautics, serving in several key committee roles related to air mobility, including leading standardization, and organizing, moderating and participating in expert panels, roundtables and workshops at forums and conferences worldwide. The primary focus is on sustainable solutions for aerospace, spanning across key topics such as electrification, and alternative fuels including Sustainable Alternative Fuels (SAF) and Hydrogen, and on how to best support industry efforts in the lead-up to net zero-carbon emissions in the foreseeable future. This includes helping capture perspectives and challenges with wider uptake of SAF, leapfrog hydrogen-based powertrains, related infrastructure, and corresponding timescales..
He is committed to optimized solutions for the Hybrid-Electric and Electric Aircraft, and Sustainable Aviation in general, from the perspectives of design, certification, operations, and business, allowing reduction of environmental impacts. In the lead-up to global net-zero emissions, his key focus is on alternative fuels such as Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) and Hydrogen for aviation, including synergistic approaches with other mobility sectors. His publications include the book Fundamentals of Electric Aircraft, which was developed to explain what the electric aircraft stands for by offering an objective view of what can be expected from the giant strides in innovative architectures and technologies enabling aircraft electrification.
He holds an Engineering degree from INP-ENSEEIHT, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France.
