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Breitscheidstrasse 2
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Name:Prof. Dr. techn. Thomas Hobiger
| Address: | Institute of Navigation University of Stuttgart Breitscheidstraße 2 70174 Stuttgart, Germany |
| Biographic data | |
| Born: | May 9th, 1978 in St. Poelten, Austria |
| Citizenship: | Austria |
| Marital status: | married |
| Languages: | German (mother tongue) English (full proficiency) Japanese (full proficiency) Swedish (full proficiency) |
| Academic degrees | |
| Mar. 2017 | “Diploma of Higher Education”, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
| Nov. 2005 | PhD in Geodesy and Geophysics, Vienna Univ. of Technology , Austria |
| May 2002 | MSc. in Geodesy and Geophysics, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria |
| Employments | |
| Aug. 2018 – now | Professor (tenured) and head of the institute, Institute of Navigation, University of Stuttgart, Germany |
| Aug. 2014 – Jul. 2018 | Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Earth and Space Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
| Oct. 2012 – Jul. 2014 |
Senior Researcher (tenured), Space-Time Standards Group, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan |
| Apr. 2010 – Sep. 2012 |
Researcher (tenured), Space-Time Standards Group, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan |
| Oct. 2008 – Mar. 2010 |
Expert Researcher Space-Time Standards Group, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan |
| Oct. 2006 – Sep. 2008 |
JSPS fellow – PostDoc Space-Time Standards Group, Kashima Space Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan |
| Apr. 2005 – Sep. 2006 |
Research Assistant Research Group Advanced Geodesy, Inst. of Geodesy and Geophysics, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria |
| Jul. 2004 – Mar. 2005 |
JSPS short term fellow Radio Astronomy Applications Group,Kashima Space Research Center,National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan |
| Feb. 2003 – Jun. 2004 |
Research Assistant – doctoral course student Research Group Advanced Geodesy,Inst. of Geodesy and Geophysics, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria |
| Awards | |
| April 2016 | NVIDIA Global Impact Award 2016 finalist |
| April 2012 | NICT award for excellent research |
| July 2011 | Fellow of the International Association of Geodesy |
| May 2011 | Tsuboi Award, The Geodetic Society of Japan (pictures from the award ceremony and the lecture can be found here) |
| April 2011 | European Geoscience Union (EGU) Division Outstanding Young Scientists Award 2011 (pictures here) |
| May 2010 | EPS award 2009 (pictures of the award ceremony can be found here) |
| Oct. 2002 | Final degree award, Faculty of Natural Science, Vienna Univ. of Technology |
| Fellowships | |
| Oct. 2006 – Sept.2008 |
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers(Standard), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) |
| Jul. 2004 – Mar.2005 |
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers(Short-term), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) |
| Editorial Activities | |
| 2017 – | Editor, “Earth, Planets and Space” |
| 2015 – | Editor, Journal of Geodesy |
| 2013 – 2014 | Guest editor for the peer-reviewed proceedings of the IAG Scientific Assembly 2013 |
| 2013 – 2014 | Guest editor for the peer-reviewed proceedings of the VIII Hotine Marussi Symposium 2013 |
| Commissions of trust | |
| 2017 – 2018 | Member of the Advisory Group for Research Infrastructures, Swedish Science Council |
| 2017 – 2018 | Member of the e-Infrastructure committee, Swedish Science Council |
| 2017 – 2018 | Member of the directing board of the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS) |
| 2016 – | Member of the Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) consortium |
| 2016 – 2018 | Member of the IVS working group 7 “Observation of satellites using VLBI” |
| 2015 – | Vice-chair of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) working 4.3.9 “GNSS Reflectometry” |
| 2015 – | Member of International Astronomical Union (IAU) commission A2 “Rotation of the Earth” |
| 2014 – 2018 | Faculty member, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
| 2014 – 2018 | Member of the IVS committee on VLBI Education and Training |
| 2013 – | Member of the International GNSS Service (IGS) Troposphere Products and Working Group |
| 2013 – 2015 | Member of IAU commission 31 “Time” |
| 2011 – 2015 | Chair of the IAG ICCT study group 0.4 “Coordinate systems of numerical weather models” |
| 2011 – 2014 | Member of working group “High precision orbit determination with multi GNSS systems“, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) |
| 2009 – 2011 | Officer of the Geodetic Society of Japan |
| 2008 – | Member of the IVS committee “VLBI2010” |
| 2007 – | Member of the IVS working group 4 on VLBI data structures |
| 2007 – 2011 | Chair of the IAG working group 4.3.3, “Numerical weather models for positioning” |
| 2003 – 2007 | Member of the IAG working group on ionosphere modelling |