Dr. Benjamin Männel
Building
A 17,
Room
10.21 (Büro)
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:
- 02/2022 - 04/2022 Research stay at Nevada Geodetic Lab (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
- 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 Centre of International GNSS Service (IGS)
- Galileo Geodetic Service Provider (2017 - ongoing)
- Galileo Reference Centre - Member States (EUSPA: GRC-MS, 2018 - 2022)
- Galileo and EGNOS Monitoring Of Performances (EUSPA: GEMOP, 2023-2025)
- Galileo Time and Geodetic Validation Facility (TGVF-X, 2018 - 2023)
- Galileo Second Generation System Test Bed (G2STB, 2024-2027)
- Integrated GNSS Processing for Earth System Monitoring (DFG, 2021 - 2024)
- Time as observable in integrated ground and space-based GNSS analysis (DFG, 2023-2026)
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