Function and Responsibilities:

Research Interests:

• Global gravity field determination, geoid modelling
• LEO missions 
• Airborne and shipborne gravimetry
• Spectral analysis in geodesy

Career:

• Since Jan. 2018 - ICGEM Service Director
• Since Aug. 2016 - Scientist at GFZ
• 2012 - 2016  Research Associate and Teaching Assistant, YU
• 2009 - 2011 Research Affiliate, Natural Resources Canada

Education:

• PhD ESSE, Lassonde School of Eng., YU (link to dissertation) 
  • GOCE Gradiometer Measurement Disturbances and Their Modelling by Means of Ionospheric Dynamics

• MSc Geomatics Eng., Schulich School of Eng., UofC (link to thesis)
• Geoid Investigations for the New Vertical Datum in Canada

• BSc (Hons) Geodesy and Photogrammetry Eng., ITU    

Projects:

• PI, SAMDAT ( Service and Archive for Mass Distribution And mass Transport data), DFG Research Data and Software Programme, start in 2024
• PI, GRAV4GEO (Gravitationsfeldmodellierung der Erdtopographie für GEOdetische und GEOphysikalische Anwendungen), DFG Research Grants, since Jan 2023
• Co-PI, SPACETIME (Investigation of the relationship between the spatiotemporal dynamics of terrestrial water and carbon storage with reference to climate change, land use, land cover, and land management through data-driven modeling over Turkey), BMBF-TÜBiTAK joint project, since Jan 2022
• Scientist, FAMOS  (Finalising Surveys for the Baltic Motorways of the Sea), 2016-2019

Research Boards and Committees:

• COST-G ICGEM representative
  
• Member of GGOS Consortium
• Member of GGOS Committee on EGVs
• Member of GGOS DOI Working Group

Awards:

• 2016 Best PhD Dissertation in the Department of Earth and Space Science and Eng., YU
• 2014 CGU Best Student Paper in all fields of geophysics, Banff, Alberta
• 2013, 2014 CGU Geodesy Section Award for Best Student Paper
• 2009 - 2011 RAP Bursary, Natural Resources Canada
• 2011 Helmut Moritz Graduate Scholarship, UofC
• 2010 F. R. Helmert Award, UofC
• 2008-2016 Various Travel Grants

Invited Talks:

• 2020 SIRGAS Symposia, virtual, invited speaker
• 2019 ISAG, invited Keynote Speaker
• 2019 Global Geodetic Reference Frame Symposium, invited Speaker