Function and Responsibilities:
Director
GFZ contribution to Helmholtz Research Programme "Atmosphere in Global Change"
Deputy Section Head
Space Geodetic TechniquesProfessor for “
GNSS Remote Sensing, Navigation and Positioning” at Technische Universität Berlin Head of the Research Area GNSS Remote Sensing with the working groups
GNSS Meteorology,
GNSS Radio Occultation and
GNSS Reflectometry
Research Interests:
GNSS atmosphere/ionosphere sounding, reflectometry and related receiver development for various geophysical applications
Atmosphere, ionosphere research with applications in climate and extreme weather research
Space Weather related investigations and monitoring
GNSS analysis software development including real time aspects
Design and realization of satellite missions with GNSS components for operational and scientific applications
Geoscientific research projects with GNSS components
Career:
1989-1991 Research Scientist, Academy of Sciences of the former GDR,
Humboldt University Berlin, Low Temperature Physics
1991-1993 Research Scientist, German Weather Service,
Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg, Sun Photometry
1993-1995 Research Scientist, Alfred Wegener Institute Bremerhaven,
Overwintering Antarctica, Meteorology/Atmospheric Chemistry/Glaciology
1996-1999 Research Scientist, German Aerospace Centre,
Satellite Receiving Station Neustrelitz, GPS Radio occultation with CHAMP
since 1999 German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ
since 2016 Professor for "GNSS Remote Sensing, Navigation and Positioning" at TU Berlin
Longer visiting professorships and research stays: 2010/2008 National Central University, Chong Li, Taiwan
2006 National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
2004 Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
2003 Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria
1998 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, U.S.
1996 Geodetic Observatory Metsahovi, Finland
1994/95 Neumayer Station, Antarctica, Overwintering
1993 Meteorological Observatory Hohenpeissenberg, Germany
1991 Institute for Low Temperatures of the Academy of Sciences, Charkow, Ukraine
1990 Technical University Berlin, Institute for Solid State Physics, Germany
Education:
Abitur, Rheinsberg, State Brandenburg, Germany, 1981
Diploma in Physics, Technical University Dresden, 1989
PhD Geophysics/Meteorology, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria, 2002
Projects:
Research Boards and Committees:
Member Science Panel Global Geodetic Observing System (
GGOS)
Member at large IAG Commission 4 Positioning and Applications
EU COST Action 1206 GNSS4SWEC, Management CommitteeInternational Radio Occultation Working Group (IROWG)GRUAN Task Team GNSS Precipitable Water VapourChair Science Advisory Group of ESA for
GEROS-ISSReviewer for various ISI listed journals (e.g., Science, JGR, GRL)
Reviewer on behalf of international/national research foundations
Awards:
Golden Keldysch medal 2012
IAG fellow 2011
Honour certificate TerraSAR-X mission 2010
Pecora Award as member of the GRACE team 2007
Honour medal: Key contributor to U.S./Taiwan COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 satellite mission 2006
Wernher-von-Braun-Award as member of the CHAMP/GRACE team 2003
GFZ research award 2002
Author/Editor:
Author/Co-Author of more than 1000 publications and conference contributions listed in the GFZ publication data base, preliminary related to GNSS methods for Earth Observation, more than 230 (SCOPUS) of these are ISI listed publications, h-index(SCOPUS): 40
ResearcherID: A-7257-2013Four books as Co-Editor, one of these as editor in chief