Susanne Glaser has taken up a W3 professorship in “Geodetic Spatial Methods” at the University of Bonn and has been teaching and researching at the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation there since 1 September 2023. She has thus left the GFZ, but will remain associated with the centre through projects.

Susanne Glaser had been a research associate at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences since 2017, in Section 1.1 “Space Geodetic Techniques”. Since 2021, she has headed the working group “Combination of Space Geodetic Techniques”. Starting in 2018, she has been a lecturer at the Chair of Satellite Geodesy, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation Technology at TU Berlin, including supervision of MSc students and co-supervision of PhD students. Susanne Glaser studied geodesy at the Technical University of Dresden and completed her PhD there in 2014. This was followed by a post-doctoral period at the TU Berlin.

She has received several awards for her work, including the prestigious IAG Young Author Award 2019 and the Best Presentation Award ION GNSS+, Miami, USA, 2018. In March 2022, she was highlighted by the International GNSS Service (IGS) as one of six women for this year's “Women's History Month”.

The website of the University of Bonn states about her new professorship at the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation:

“The main research areas of the professorship are the developments of space geodetic techniques, such as the next generation of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), as well as different combination strategies of the techniques. The space techniques are combined to determine so-called global terrestrial reference frames. They represent the metrological basis of almost all geodetic observations that enable the surveying of the Earth. Highly accurate surveying of the earth and its changes is of crucial importance, especially in times of climate change.”

New video: DFG “exkurs” talk with Susanne Glaser

Susanne Glaser now reports on her research in an exkurs-discussion, the DFG's video series for the current Science Year “Our Universe”, which is available on YouTube. It states:

“Satellites play a central role in our life on Earth: using GPS, for example, we can navigate precisely in unknown surroundings and the rise in sea level is also determined with the help of satellites. But how exactly does measuring the earth with satellites work? How are such small but crucial changes such as sea level rise or changes in ice masses measured from space?”

She talks to presenter Johannes Büchs “about the methods used to measure the world with satellites and how they work. She also explains what these methods can be used for today and in the future.”

You can watch the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFHHQzRGwhI

New Contact

Prof. Dr. Susanne Glaser

https://www.igg.uni-bonn.de/de/ag