Function and Responsibilities:

• Head of the Research Group "GNSS Infrastruktur and Analysis" (Section 1.1)
  
• Deputy speaker for the Modular Earth Science Infrastructure (MESI)
• Member of GFZ Scientific Council

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
• 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:

ongoing

• Analysis Centre of International GNSS Service (IGS)
• Galileo Geodetic Service Provider (2017 - ongoing)
• ERC StG TectoVision (Contributor, PI Jonathan Bedford, Uni Bochum, 2022 - 2027)
• Time as observable in integrated ground and space-based GNSS analysis (DFG, 2023-2026)
• Galileo and EGNOS Monitoring Of Performances (EUSPA: GEMOP, 2023-2025)
  
• Galileo Second Generation System Test Bed (G2STB, 2024-2027)

completed

• Integrated GNSS Processing for Earth System Monitoring (DFG, 2021 - 2024)
• Galileo Reference Centre - Member States (EUSPA: GRC-MS, 2018 - 2022)
• Galileo Time and Geodetic Validation Facility (TGVF-X, 2018 - 2023)

Research Boards and Committees:

• as of 2024 Member ESA Genesis Science Management Board and Co-Chair of WG2 GNSS
• as of 2021 Member of the EUREF Governing Board
• as of 2020 Member of the IGS Governing Board (elected Analysis Center Representative)
• since 2016 Co-Chair of the GGOS Committee on Performance Simulations and Architectural Trade-offs (PLATO)
• 2015-2017 IVS Working Group on Satellite Observation with VLBI