Research interests

Martin Horwath's research interests include physical geodesy, satellite geodesy and geodetic Earth system research. Research has been focused on the following fields:

• Ice sheet dynamic processes and mass balance from geodetic observations
• Sea-level budget and ocean-mass budget
• GNSS observation of solid Earth deformations, including glacial isostatic adjustment, elastic load deformation, and tectonic deformation
• Satellite gravimetry: CHAMP, GRACE, GOCE satellite missions and future mission concepts
• Global and regional static and time-variable gravity field modelling and its application to Earth system research
• Satellite altimetry over ice sheets and ocean
• Integration of geometric and gravimetric observations for glaciological and geodynamic investigations
• Combination of satellite observations, fieldwork and geophysical modeling for glaciological and geodynamic investigations
• GNSS reflectometry

Career

10/1992 - 09/1998	Diploma course (Mathematics), TU Dresden
09/1995 - 08/1996	Study at Moscow State University (scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD)
12/1998 - 11/2008	Research Scientist, TU Dresden, Institut für Planetare Geodäsie (group of Prof. R. Dietrich)
12/2007	Dissertation (Dr.-Ing.) at TU Dresden (grade “summa cum laude”)
12/2008 - 08/2010	Post-doc at CNES/GRGS (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales / Groupe de Recherche de Géodésie Spatiale) and LEGOS (Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales), Toulouse, France
09/2010 - 03/2014	Research Associate, TU München, Institute for Astronomical and Physical Geodesy, Executive Director of the Centre of Geodetic Earth System Research (CGE) Munich (group of Prof. R. Pail)
since 04/2014	W3 professor (Chair of Geodetic Earth System Research), TU Dresden, Institut für Planetare Geodäsie