Function and Responsibilities:

Head of research group  "Combination and VLBI" in Section 1.1 Space Geodetic Techniques

Research Interests:

    * Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)

    * Geodetic and astrometric applications of VLBI

    * Terrestrial and celestial reference systems and frames, geodetic datum

    * Earth rotation, observation, prediction, modeling

    * Combination of space geodetic techniques et al., e.g. Gaia, ring laser

    * Analysis and modelling of VLBI observations, neutral and ionospheric parameters

    * Development of analysis software for VLBI observables

    * VLBI to artificial radio sources, applications and analyses

Career:

2008.11 -- 2012.10 Research Fellow, Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut, Munich, Germany

2004.03 -- 2008.10 Univ. Assistant, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Vienna Univ. of Tech., Austria

2010.01  Research stay at Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), Daejeon, Korea

2008.07-08 Research stay at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt (MD), USA

2006.08 -- 2007.02 Research stay at Department of Geodesy and Photogrammetry Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Education:

2004.2008 Dr. techn. Geoesy and Geoinformation, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

1997-2002 Dipl.-Ing. Geodesy, Technische Universität München, Germany

Projects:

GENESIS-D (DLR-Agentur)

New VLBI processing (ESA)

AGORA (DFG)

ECORAS (DFG)

D-VLBI (DFG)

Research Boards and Committees:

International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) -- Analysis Coordinator