Dr. Benjamin Männel

Building
A 17,
Room
10.21
Telegrafenberg
14473
Potsdam
Function and Responsibilities:
- Head of the Research Group "GNSS IGS Analysis Center" (Section 1.1)
- Deputy speaker for the Modular Earth Science Infrastructure (MESI)
Research Interests:
- high-quality GNSS processing including orbit determination
- combination of space geodetic techniques on satellites
- satellite tracking with VLBI
Career:
- since 2016 research associate at GFZ Potsdam
- 2011 - 2016 research assistant at the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETH Zürich
Education:
- 2011 - 2016 PhD studies at ETH Zürich
- 2006 - 2011 Diploma studies Geodesy, TU Dresden
Projects:
- Analysis Center of the International GNSS Service
- Galileo Geodetic Service Provider
- Galileo Reference Centre - Member States (GRC-MS)
- Galileo Time and Geodetic Validation Facility (TGVF-X)
Research Boards and Committees:
- 2015-2017 IVS Working Group on Satellite Observation with VLBI
- since 2016 GGOS Standing Committee on Performance Simulations and Architectural Trade-offs (Co-Chair)
- as of 2020 Member of the IGS Governing Board (elected Analysis Center Representative)
- as of 2021 Member of the EUREF Governing Board