Santiago Erroz Ferrer
Technical Lead, Lufthansa Group
- Aviation
- Data Science
- Enterprise AI
The take
AI can make aviation measurably greener – optimising routes for fuel efficiency, predicting maintenance needs and sharpening load management.
The harder work inside a group like Lufthansa isn't the models; it's bridging data silos in legacy systems and upskilling teams so a new AI-driven culture actually takes.
Editorial bio
Santiago Erroz Ferrer came to AI in commercial aviation the long way – PhD in Astrophysics in 2015, postdoc at ETH Zurich, then a jump to data science consulting in 2018. He landed inside the Lufthansa Group in 2019 and has been there since, and today, as Technical Lead at SWISS, he runs the technical side of a team of data scientists and ML engineers building for the whole group.
His work sits where enterprise AI actually bites: legacy systems, data silos, and operations where a model has to earn its keep in fuel burn, maintenance cycles and crew planning. He's one of the people translating astrophysics-grade statistics into airline decisions that move at the speed of a schedule.
Worth listening to if you want to hear what AI adoption looks like at the scale of a European flag-carrier – not demos, but the discipline it takes to ship.
Key facts
- based in
- Switzerland
- current
- Technical Lead, Data Science, SWISS / Lufthansa Group
- prior
- Data scientist across SWISS and Lufthansa Group since 2019; data science consultant from 2018
- background
- PhD in Astrophysics (2015); postdoc at ETH Zurich
- focus
- Enterprise AI · aviation operations · sustainability · AI culture change
Featured work
Technical Lead, Data Science at SWISS / Lufthansa Group
Leads a team of data scientists and ML engineers, overseeing technical delivery of data science and AI projects across the Lufthansa Group.
Data Science across the Lufthansa Group
Data scientist roles across different departments of Swiss International Air Lines and Lufthansa Group.
Research in Astrophysics
Published work on galaxy morphology, kinematics and star formation across the Hubble Sequence; PhD completed in 2015.