• Modeling and interpretation of Earth rotation and gravity field variation
• Global and continental hydrology, global water cycle
• Operation and development of the numerical hydrological model Land Surface Discharge Model (LSDM).
• Global and regional mass redistributions and interaction between atmosphere, ocean, and land surface.
• Surface load deformation
• Earth rotation parameter prediction by dynamic Earth system forecasts

• since 10/2010: Earth Orientation Parameters Combination of Prediction Pilot Project (EOPCPPP).
• since 07/2009: Associated Product Center of the International Earth Rotation and Reference System Service (IERS): operational preparation of daily Earth rotation excitation functions from models of atmosphere, ocean and continental hydrosphere.
• since 2002: DFG research unit FOR 584 "Earth Rotation and Global Dynamic Processes"

University and school education

• until 1979: primary school in Munich
• until 1989: grammar school in Ottobrunn/Germany
• until 1996: undergraduate studies of geophysics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
• 1996: diploma thesis: Perigramme und Möglichkeiten ihrer Verwendung in der Migration mit Anwendung auf reflexionsseismische Daten aus dem Umfeld der Kontinentalen Tiefbohrung KTB

• summer 1995: mountaineering and geoscientific expedition in the Bolivian Andes
• 1996–1997: collaboration in ANCORP-project of GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam in Chile and Bolivia
• 1997–2001: research associate at Deutschen Geodätischen Forschungsinstitut (DGFI) in Munich
• 2001–2005: research associate at Forschungseinrichtung Satellitengeodäsie, Technical University Munich (FESG)
• 2002: doctoral thesis:“ The influence of secondary effects on Earth rotation“ (research project granted by DFG)
• since 2005: research associate at GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) Potsdam, section "Earth System Modelling"

Dill, R. and H. Dobslaw (2010): Short-term polar motion forecasts from earth system modeling data. Journal of Geodesy, 84, 9, 529-536, doi:10.1007/s00190-010-0391-5
Dobslaw, H., R. Dill, A. Groetzsch, A. Brzezinski, and M. Thomas (2010): Seasonal polar motion excitation from numerical models of atmosphere, ocean, and continental hydrosphere. J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2009JB007127