Name: Prof. Dr.-Ing.Günter W. Hein Position: Former head of the Institute (now absent for sake of position as ESA Head of Galileo Operations and Evolution) Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Address: Institute ofGeodesy and Navigation University FAF Munich D-85577 Neubiberg Tel.: +49-89-6004-3425 Fax.: +49-89-6004-3019 Office 62, Room No. 105 E-Mail:
Curriculum Vitae Education 1967 Technician in Surveying 1971 Surveying engineer, Fachhochschule Mainz 1973 Dipl.-Ing. (Geodesy), University of Darmstadt 1976 Dr.-Ing.,University of Darmstadt 1981 Habilitation (Dr.-Ing. habil.) and appointment as ”Privatdozent” in Physical Geodesy Experience 1974 Research Associate at the Institute of Photogrammetry and Cartography, University of Darmstadt 1976 Postgraduate Scholarship at the Institute of Physical Geodesy, University of Darmstadt 1976-79 Research Associate at the above mentioned institute 1980-83 Akademischer Rat at the above mentioned institute since 10/1983 Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Geodesy and Navigation of the University FAF Munich 1990 Offer of professorship of Geodesy at the University of Karlsruhe; rejected 1995 Offer of professorship of Navigation and Director of Institute of Navigation (formerly Prof. Dr. Hartl); University of Stuttgart; rejected 1997-99 Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Surveying and Geodesy International Activities 1984 Visiting Senior Scientist at the U.S. National Geodetic Survey, Rockville 1987 Visiting Senior Scientist at the University of New South Wales, Sydney 1987 Visiting Senior Scientist at the University of Maine, USA since 2000 Guest Professor at the Master of the Master of Space Engineering, Toptech Studies, University of Delft Research interests New satellite navigation systems, in particular Galileo and modernized GPS Signal design and processing Satellite navigation processing including orbit determination Navigation applications of Galileo, GPS, GLONASS GNSS software receiver development Sensor fusion Research activities and Publications More than 280 scientific publications in Geodesy and Navigation (Publication list since 1998) So far more than 100 research grants funded amongst others by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR/BMBF), the European Union, the European Space Agency (ESA), the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German DoD, German and European industry, member of several national and international research projects and consortia Memberships US Institute of Navigation Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ortung und Navigation American Geophysical Union International Association of Geodesy, IUGG Deutscher Verein für Vermessungswesen Editorial activities Member of the Editorial Board of "GPS Inside" Member of the Editorial Board of "GPS World" Member of the Editorial Board of "GPS Solutions" Honours Johannes Kepler Award 2003 of the US Institute of Navigation for "sustained and significant contributions to satellite navigation" (worldwide highest award in satellite navigation, given to one scientist every year, only one European so far) European Representative in the Executive Committee of the US Institute of Navigation German Representative in the Galileo Signal Task Force, EU Commission (since 1999) Technical Member of the Negotiation Delegation of the EU for the Agreement between the EU and the USA on GPS-Galileo, 2000-2004 Member of the EU-US Working Group on Galileo-GPS since 2004 Other activities Lecturer at the Carl-Crantz-Gesellschaft, Oberpfaffenhofen (Germany) Lecturer at Navtech - Seminars, Arlington, VA (USA) Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the annual international conference "Munich Satellite Navigation Summit"