Function and Responsibilities:

• GRACE-FO Operations Mission Manager
• Deputy IT-Manager  in Oberpfaffenhofen
  

Research Interests:

• Satellite operations
• Computer programming (C/C++, perl, Linux shell)
• Developing of web based applications for science and project management
• Visualization of scientific data (GMT, gnuplot, RRD)
  
• Application of database systems in research
  
• Application of open source software for support of scientific work
• Use of stochastic methods (evolution strategies, Monte Carlo) for solving of not-linear problems
  

Career:

• 2000-2005: Scientific Assistant at Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics  at Ruhr University Bochum
• SFB 526 Rheology of the Earth
  
• since 2005: Scientist at Section 1.2  Global Geomonitoring and Gravity Field at GFZ Potsdam
• GRACE/GRACE-FO Project (project management, system engineering, developing of flight control procedures ), Operations Mission Manager
  
• Satellite orbits determination
• Preparation and processing of scientific data for computations  of satellite orbits and gravity field.
  
• IT Administration
  

Education:

• 1991-1995  School education, Stalowa Wola, Poland
• 1995 - 2000  MSc Eng, Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
• 2000- 2005  PhD, Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
• Dissertation:  Inversion of gravity data with application to density modeling of the Hellenic subduction zone

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