Frank Diebel is a sinologist and economist, historian, philosopher, certified drone pilot, Python programmer and company founder. More importantly, he is married and has two daughters.

From 2014 to 2018 Frank lived in the beautiful garden city of Chengdu, the home of the giant panda, favorite province of Sichuan, People's Republic of China. There he worked at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) in the International Office, at the Liberal Arts College and at the College of International Education.

In the summer of 2018 he returned to his beloved and incomparable home country Schleswig-Holstein and founded the companies Dong Qiao Consulting and DQ Copter Solutions. Since then he has been working on the construction of innovative unmanned aerial vehicle systems (drones).

Frank Diebel is a certified drone pilot and software developer who mainly uses the popular Python programming language. The platform-independent programming language Python is particularly widespread in the field of science. Python developers like Frank use the language because it allows particularly rapid development and the rapid implementation of problem solutions. Frank Diebel's startup DQ Copter Solutions uses Python DroneKit for its new development of drone and UAS software for its own industrial drone solutions.

Using DroneKit-Python, Frank Diebel can create apps that run on a built-in companion computer and communicate with the ArduPilot flight controller over a low-latency connection. The onboard apps from DQ Copter Solutions will significantly improve the autopilot, make UAV behavior more intelligent and perform tasks that are computationally intensive or time-critical (e.g. computer vision, path planning or 3D modeling). Frank Diebel also uses DroneKit-Python in the ground stations of DQ Copter Solutions, which communicate with the drones via an RF connection.

University Marketing in the International Office

Frank Diebel was responsible for online marketing in the International Office of the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE). His duties included planning and developing the university's non-Chinese websites. Frank also produced the monthly and quarterly newsletters in English and communicated with partner universities and cooperation study programs such as the MA CEEBS Chinese-European Economics and Business Studies, which is carried out jointly by SWUFE and the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin) .

Lectures at the Liberal Arts College

Frank Diebel taught history and philosophy at the Liberal Arts College in the Faculty of Humanities. The two introductory university courses, "History of Western Civilization" and "History of Western Philosophy", were primarily aimed at reaching students whose majors are not history or philosophy. Frank Diebel's courses were open to all students from all faculties at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE). In general, his lectures are available to anyone interested in history and philosophy.

Lectures at the International College

At the College of International Education of the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) Frank Diebel taught "Cultural and Political History of China and Europe", a module within the framework of the international, joint Chinese-German double degree MA CEEBS Chinese-European Economics and Business Studies. The cooperative, joint MA CEEBS master’s program was co-founded in 2007 by both the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin) and the SWUFE. Frank taught the Sino-European history course for ten years from its beginnings in Berlin in 2007 to 2018 in Chengdu, before he left SWUFE to return to Schleswig-Holstein with his family and found his startup Dong Qiao Consulting.