The EGSIEM consists of 8 members in total, who for many years have been actively developing, disseminating and exploiting state-of-the-art methods for gravity field recovery, reference frame establishment, and medium to high resolution optical and radar remote sensing. The EGSIEM project is therefore already embedded in a variety of national and international research activities.
University of Bern
Prof. Adrian Jäggi earned the academic degree Dr. phil.-nat. with a thesis on precise orbit determination of low earth satellites using GPS in December 2006. In 2007 he was awarded a Carl von Linde Junior Fellowship at the IAS for the project “Satellite Geodesy”. He was responsible for the computation of the earth gravity field models AIUB-GRACE01S, AIUB-GRACE02S, and AIUB-GRACE03S and significantly contributed to the operations of ESA's High-level Processing Facility (HPF) for the GOCE mission. In 2009 he led the scientific activities at the Zimmerwald SLR observatory, Bern. He is now a Professor of the Faculty of Science of UBERN, and since January 2012 Director of the AIUB. Adrian is the coordinator of the EGSEIM project.
http://www.unibe.ch
http://www.aiub.unibe.ch
Dr. Ulrich Meyer received his Dr. ing. in 2006 from the University of Munich with a thesis on the use of the Hill equations for gravity field determination from LEO orbits. From 2002 to 2008 he worked at GFZ on the computation of monthly gravity field solutions from GRACE data in the frame of the Geotechnologien project. In 2008 he joined the AIUB team were he has been responsible for the determination of static and time-variable gravity fields of the Earth from GRACE K-Band and GOCE gradiometer observables, and from 2014 on as the head of the gravity field research group.
University of Luxembourg
Prof. Dr. Tonie van Dam received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA and joined the University of Luxembourg as a professor in 2006. She focuses her research on using observations of crustal deformation, satellite gravity, and terrestrial data to infer changes in ice or hydrologic mass and geodynamical processes, to model the effects of environmental mass (including continental water mass (soil moisture, groundwater, snow), atmospheric mass, non-tidal oceanic, and cryospheric mass) and to understand their effects on geodetic observations (e.g. positioning and terrestrial gravity). She is chair of the International Earth Rotation Service’s Global Geophysical Data Centre and President of the IAG Commission 1: Reference Frames.
http://wwwen.uni.lu/forschung/fstc/geophysics
http://wwwen.uni.lu/recherche/fstc/geophysics/team/tonie_van_dam
German Research Centre for Geosciences
Prof. Dr. Frank Flechtner has studied geodesy at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn between 1981 and 1987 and has also graduated in Bonn in 1999 with the topic „Determination of the total electron content of the ionosphere using PRARE range and range-rate observations“. Between 1988 and 1992 he was a research scientist at the German Geodetic Research Institute in Munich. Since 1992 he is employed at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. Since 2010 he was already the temporarily head of the Section „Global Geomonitoring and Gravity Field“, since March 2013 he is the official head. At the same time he took over a professorship for “Physical Geodesy” at the Technical University in Berlin. Since 2009 he is the Co-PI of the US-German satellite mission GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment). Presently he manages as the PI the German contributions of the NASA-GFZ follow-on mission GRACE-FO, due for launch in August 2017.
http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/globales-geomonitoring-und-schwerefeld
Prof. Andreas Güntner is a hydrologist by education. He graduated at the University of Freiburg / Germany and received his PhD at Potsdam University in 2002. Andreas has a focus on hydrological process research at multiple spatial and temporal scales, applying both field methods and modelling. For understanding the dynamics of continental water storage, he develops the application of ground- and satellite-based gravity monitoring. Since 2015, Andreas holds a professorhsip for hydrogravimetry at Potsdam University in a joint appointment with the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ Potsdam).
http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/hydrology/
http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/home/
Graz University of Technology
Prof. Torsten Mayer-Gürr leads the working group of Satellite Geodesy at the Institute of Geodesy at the Graz University of Technology (TUG). He is responsible for the computation of the GRACE-only gravity field models ITG-GRACE2010 (Mayer-Gürr et al. 2010) and ITSG-Grace2014 (Mayer-Gürr et al. 2014). He was leading the GOCE High-level Processing Facility team at TUG. Besides his activities in global gravity field modeling, Torsten Mayer-Gürr was and is involved in several other investigations concerning satellite data processing, time-variable gravity field determination and mass transport issues like ocean tides, sea-level change and water storage variations.
http://www.itsg.tugraz.at
Leibniz University/Leibniz Universität Hannover
Prof. Jakob Flury received his PhD in geodesy from Technische Universtät München, and was a postdoc at the University of Texas, and since 2009 was made a Professor at the Institut für Erdmessung, Leibniz Universität. His current research focus is sensor analysis for geodetic space missions (GRACE, GOCE, Swarm, GRACE Follow-On), environmental conditions in low Earth orbit, and gravity field modeling. Prof. Flury is deputy Dean of the Hannover QUEST Leibniz Research School and, since 2014, speaker of the new Hannover Collaborative Research Center SFB1128 “Relativistic Geodesy and Gravimetry with Quantum Sensors”.
http://www.ife.uni-hannover.de
National Centre for Space Studies
Dr. Sean Bruinsma is a research engineer in the Terrestrial and Planetary Geodesy department of CNES since 2001. He has worked on the GRGS time-variable gravity field models based on GRACE data since 2003, and was the work package leader for the GOCE gravity field models by means of the direct method developed for ESA. From 1994 to 1999 he has worked on satellite long-arc computation using a semi-analytical method at the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, using the geodetic laser satellites to derive time-variable gravity. He has an MSc in Geodesy (1994) and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering (2003), both from Delft University of Technology.
http://www.cnes.fr
http://grgs.obs-mip.fr/
German Aerospace Center
Hendrik Zwenzner has a diploma in Geography and Remote Sensing from the University of Jena, Germany. From 2004 to 2005 he was a Research Associate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, working in the field of regional fire modeling and remote sensing. In 2005 he joined the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and worked since then in several research projects. His main scientific interests are the information extraction from EO data for the response to natural and man-made disasters, i.e. the derivation of flood parameters such as inundation depth. When he joined DLR he also joined the Center for Satellite based Crisis Information (ZKI) where he fulfilled different roles such as the management of ZKI activations, the rapid mapping coordination. He also works as an Emergency on-call officer, project manager and data manager for the acquisition and provision of satellite data in the framework of the International Charter Space and Major Disasters.
http://www.dlr.de/eoc/en/
http://www.zki.dlr.de/
Géode & Cie
Stéphane Bourgogne has a diploma from SUPAERO (National Higher School of Aeronautics and Space, France). He has a strong background in mathematics, space science and gravity field modeling, and has been working in cooperation with the CNES space geodesy team for several years. He also has fine skills in interactive web development, namely for scientific applications. He is the CEO of Géode & Cie, and is responsible for the Horizon 2020 EGSIEM GRACE Plotter online visualization tool.
http://www.geode-et-cie.fr
The EGSIEM consortium will also benefit from the expertise of the associated members Technische Universität München (TUM) who will share their experience for meeting the numerical challenges posed by the greatly improved precision of the LRI observations, and will receive the most recent GIA models through the associated member Lantmäteriet (LM; the Swedish mapping, cadastral and land registration authority) in Sweden.
http://http://www.iapg.bgu.tum.de/iapg.html
http://https://www.lantmateriet.se/
