Professor Holzinger's research interests are in Space Situational Awareness, Guidance, Navigation & Control, Formation Flight, Rendezvous & Proximity Operations, Estimation & Sensor Fusion, and Strategic Analysis.

He received his PhD at the University of Colorado, Boulder, under the direction of Prof. Daniel Scheeres and has been a Senior Research Associate working with Prof. Kyle T. Alfriend at Texas A&M.

He has previously worked on monopropellant hydrazine propulsion systems for Aerojet on the THEMIS satellites and formation flight, rendezvous, and proximity operations research for Northrop Grumman Space Technology, including work on the Phase I portion of the F6 program.