Finished Research Projects

Terrestrial Gravimetry

  • Absolute gravimetry in Denmark
    Led by: Dr.-Ing. Ludger Timmen
    Team: Dipl.-Ing. Olga Gitlein
    Year: 2003

Gravity Field and Geoid Modelling

  • The recovery of Earth’s global gravity field from GOCE observations
    The ESA’s GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) mission was the first to jointly apply SGG (satellite gravity gradiometry) and SST-hl (satellite-to-satellite high-low tracking) techniques to map the Earth’s gravity field. It delivered hundreds of millions of observations in four years’ lifetime, from 2009 to 2013. My Ph.D work is to recover a global gravity field model that is described by 62,997 spherical harmonic coefficients (up to degree/order 250) from the huge amount of GOCE observations.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Müller
    Team: Dr.-Ing. Hu Wu
    Year: 2011
    Funding: Stipendium
    Duration: 2011-2016

Relativistic Geodesy

  • Clock network modeling (CRC 1128, C03)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Müller, Prof. Dr. Claus Lämmerzahl
    Team: Dr.-Ing. Hu Wu
    Year: 2014
    Funding: DFG

Satellite Gravimetry

  • System studies for an optical gradiometer mission (CRC 1128, B07)
    Led by: Dr. Gerhard Heinzel, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jürgen Müller
    Team: Dr. Karim Douch, Brigitte Kaune, Dr. Akbar Shabanloui
    Year: 2014
    Funding: DFG

Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR)

  • Lunar Reference Systems
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jürgen Müller
    Team: Dr.-Ing Franz Hofmann
    Year: 2014
    Funding: DFG - FOR 1503
    Duration: 2014-2019
  • Barycentric Ephemeris
    Barycentric Ephemeris
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jürgen Müller
    Team: Dr.-Ing. habil. Enrico Mai
    Year: 2012
    Funding: DFG FOR1503 Reference Systems
  • Lunar Laser Ranging: Konsistente Modellierung für geodätische und wissenschaftliche Anwendungen
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Müller
    Team: Dr.-Ing. Liliane Biskupek
    Year: 2006
    Funding: DFG

CRC 1128 (geo-Q)

  • Clock network modeling (CRC 1128, C03)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Müller, Prof. Dr. Claus Lämmerzahl
    Team: Dr.-Ing. Hu Wu
    Year: 2014
    Funding: DFG
  • Modeling of mass variations down to small scales (CRC 1128, C05)
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jürgen Müller
    Team: Dr.-Ing. Balaji Devaraju, M.Sc. Lars Leßmann
    Year: 2014
    Funding: DFG
  • System studies for an optical gradiometer mission (CRC 1128, B07)
    Led by: Dr. Gerhard Heinzel, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jürgen Müller
    Team: Dr. Karim Douch, Brigitte Kaune, Dr. Akbar Shabanloui
    Year: 2014
    Funding: DFG
  • Transportable quantum gravimeter (CRC 1128, A01)
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Müller, Prof. Dr. Ernst M. Rasel
    Team: Maral Sahelgozin
    Year: 2014
    Funding: DFG

QUEST

  • Potential Field Determination and high precise Oscillators
    Determination of the Earth's Gravity Field using high precise Oscillators
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jürgen Müller
    Team: Dr.-Ing. habil. Enrico Mai
    Year: 2011
    Funding: QUEST (Quantum Engineering and Space Time Research)