Work experience

Dates

July 2006 onwards

Occupation or position held

Department Head at the Remote Sensing Technology Institute

Main activities and responsibilities

Responsible for the department “Photogrammetry and Image Analysis” regarding scientific research topics, stuff and financial issues (40 scientists, 10PhD students)

Research in the fields of photogrammetric evaluation of airborne and satellite data including stereo processing, airborne traffic monitoring and near real time applications

Project Leader in project ARGOS “Airborne wide area high altitude monitoring system“  for situation and traffic monitoring in case of disasters and mass events

Professorship for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing at the University of Osnabrück, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

Chairman: ISPRS Commission I, Working Group IV

Name and address of employer

German Aerospace Centre, 20, Muenchnerstr., 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Type of business or sector

Governmental Research

Dates

Jan 1998 onwards

Occupation or position held

Team Leader at the Remote Sensing Technology Institute

Main activities and responsibilities

Responsible for the team “Photogrammetry”

PI in SPOT-HRS Scientific Assessment Programme

GMOSS (EU Network of Excellence) Responsible for WP “Change Detection”

Lead in several national and international research projects

Co-Chairman: ISPRS Commission I, Working Group V

Name and address of employer

German Aerospace Centre, 20, Muenchnerstr. 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Type of business or sector

Governmental Research

Dates

April 1989 onwards

Occupation or position held

Research Scientist at the Institute of Optoelectronics

Main activities and responsibilities

Development of an image processing system (XDibias)

Development of image processing algorithms for remote sensing imagery

Radiometric and geometric calibration and image correction algorithm development

Project lead for several projects connected with the German Space Camera System MOMS-02 on Space Shuttle and MOMS-2P on the Russian MIR station

Name and address of employer

German Aerospace Centre, 20, Muenchnerstr. 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Type of business or sector

Governmental Research

Education and training

Dates

1985-1989

Title of qualification awarded

Dr.-Ing.

Principal subjects/occupational skills covered

Thesis Title: Multispektrale Klassifizierung von schwer trennbaren Klassen mit Beispielen aus Waldschadensgebieten

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

University of Hannover

Dates

1977-1983

Title of qualification awarded

Dipl.-Phys.

Principal subjects/occupational skills covered

Thesis Title: Neutrino Masses and Mixings from Supernova Bursts 

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik

Personal skills and competences

Mother tongue(s)

German

Other language(s)

English, French

Self-assessment

Understanding

Speaking

Writing

European level (*)

Listening

Reading

Spoken interaction

Spoken production

English

Proficient user

Proficient user

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Proficient user

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French

Basic user

Basic user

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Basic user

(*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Social skills and competences

Team work: I have worked in various national and international teams and projects in several positions. As team leader and department head I have acquired competences in coaching and guiding. As professor for geoinformatics and remote sensing I am teaching

Organisational skills and competences

Project Management, Leadership in large projects, Head of Department. For several diploma and doctoral thesis I have been tutor or guide.

Computer skills and competences

Programming in FORTRAN and C, All office applications

Additional information

PUBLICATIONS

About 80 publications in ISI cited journals

More than 350 publications in conferences, journals and books

Reviewer for 10 scientific journals

AWARD:

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in 1989