News

Podcast on GNSS Reflectometry aboard ISS Jens Wickert in "Welt der Physik" (German, Podcast No. 214)

Successful launch of the PAZ satellite (Spain) on February 22, 2018 with polarimetric GNSS radio occultation (RO) measurements. Jens Wickert member of science team.

GRACE-FO was launched May 22, 2018. It has capability for GNSS radio occultation (RO) measurements. Jens Wickert is german coordinator for GNSS RO.

The COSMIC-2A mission with GNSS radio occultation measurements was launched June 25, 2019 from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida with a Falcon Heavy, SpaceX, Jens Wickert member science team.

ESA Cubesat mission PRETTY, Science team formed with Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, DLR, GFZ, IEEC, and RUAG (December 2020).

Conferences/Workshops/Meetings/Talks

Sept. 6-11, 2018, IGL-1 2018 — First International Workshop on Innovating GNSS and LEO Occultations & Reflections for Weather, Climate and Space Weather, Beijing, China, One of the three main organisors Jens Wickert, press release GFZ

ESA Living Planet Symposium, LPS 2019, May Milano 2019

GNSS+R 2019 Workshop, Benevento, May, 2019

IUGG 2019 General Assembly Montreal, Invited talk on Space Weather Research at GFZ, Prof. Wickert

International Workshop on LEO-LEO Occultations, July 22-27, Beijing, 2019, invited talk, Prof. Wickert

7th International Colloquium on Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of Galileo, Zürich, Sept. 4-7, Member Podium Discussion Panel with Jens Wickert, Invited talk on GNSS Reflectometry

European Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, EMS 2019, Copenhagen, Sept. 9-13, 2019, invited talk on GNSS Reflectometry for Meteorological applications

International Radio Occultation Conference (Online), ICGPSRO, Taipeh, Taiwan, November 2020

European Navigation Conference 2020 (online), November, Jens Wickert Chair Session A6 Navigation in Space / Explorer Initiatives

Munich Navigation Summit 2021, Jens Wickert Chair Panel Session on GNSS Remote Sensing

Teaching/Summerschools/PhD Committees

Jens Wickert, Member PhD committee, Pawel Hordyniec, Wroclaw, April 2019

Jens Wickert, Member PhD committee, Milad Asgarimehr, TU Berlin, June 2020

Jens Wickert, Chair PhD committee, Seun Oluwadare, TU Berlin, November 2020

Jens Wickert, Chair PhD committee, Michael Loesler, TU Berlin, December 2020

Jens Wickert, Member PhD committee, Tzvetan Simeonov, December 2020

Jens Wickert, Lesson on "GNSS Remote Sensing at GFZ: Overview and Recent results", WUHAN Summer School international, July 2020