Inhaltsbereich
Dr. Christoph Förste
Helmholtz Centre PotsdamGFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Section 1.2, Global Geomonitoring and Gravity Field
Telegrafenberg, A17 00.15
D-14473 Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 288 1737
Fax: +49 331 288 1169
Mail: christoph.foerste@gfz-potsdam.de
Scientific interests:
- Satellite Geodesy
- Gravity Field determination
- GPS
- Scientific computer programming, especially using FORTRAN, Perl
- Scientific high performance computing
- Speaking English and Russian
Career:
- 1978 High-school diploma at the former Leibniz-Oberschule in Schkeuditz (Saxony, Germany)
- 1980-1985 University Leipzig, studies of physics, diploma about 1H-NMR relaxation of hydrocarbons adsorbed on zeolithes
- 1985-1988 Research Student at University Leipzig / Department "Grenzflächenphysik", doctoral thesis: "NMR investigations about the self diffusion of benzene adsorbed on NaX-zeolith and silicalite"
- 1988-1990 Research Scientist, former Zentralinstitut für Physik der Erde, Potsdam
- 1990-1991 Research Scientist, Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut, Munich
- since 1992 Research Scientist at GFZ Potsdam/Section 1.3
Experience:
- SLR station Potsdam
- Processing of global SLR data for orbit computation and continental drift analysis
- GPS orbit determination, software development
- PRARE onboard METEOR 3/7 and ERS-2
- Member of the CHAMP science team since 1995
- CHAMP Science Data System
- CHAMP Accelerometer preprocessing
- Gravity Field determination from the combination of CHAMP , GRACE and surface data
- Satellite Gravity Gradiometry and the GOCE mission
- ESA-Project "GOCE High-level Processing Facility" (HPF)
- Team member of the European GOCE Gravity Consortium (EGG-C)