Mathieu Joerger, associate professor in the Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, has been named the newest editor of NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation.

"I am thrilled to be a part of the NAVIGATION editorial team,” said Joerger. “We are living exciting times in the field of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT). The growing number of cyber-physical attacks to radio-frequency systems affecting communications and transportation are a painful and persistent reminder of the nation’s and the world’s overreliance on GPS.  Industry, government, and academia are devising creative solutions to protect, toughen, and augment PNT with new policies to enable their development, with new radio-frequency signals, antennas, and receivers. With new navigation systems using low earth orbiting satellites, the earth’s magnetic field, muons, quantum — not to mention AI — there are great opportunities for research and innovation in PNT.”

NAVIGATION is an electronic journal published by the Institute of Navigation. The journal publishes original, peer-reviewed papers in an open-access environment in all areas related to the art, science, and engineering of PNT covering land, sea, air, and space applications.

Joerger’s research at Virginia Tech focuses on the safety and reliability of navigation systems for autonomous vehicles and aircraft.

Joerger earned his Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2009 and joined Virginia Tech in 2019. He served as senior editor of navigation for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems from 2018 to 2025. As a member of the Institute of Navigation, he has been recognized with the Bradford Parkinson Award (2009), the Early Achievement Award (2014), and the Burka Award and Thurlow Award (2023).

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