Research groups – Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodetic Science

Participation in DFG Research Units

DFG Research Unit 5455 “Deformation analysis based on terrestrial laser scanner measurements (TLS-Defo)"

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heiner Kuhlmann, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Projekt P04 “Surface approximation uncertainty ”
(Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Neumann, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Schön)

Projekt P05 “Distribution-free Uncertainty Description for TLS-based Areal Deformation Analysis ”
(Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Schön, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Neumann)

FOR 5455 website

DFG Research Unit 5939 “RING Rotations in Physics, Geodesy and Geophysics”

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Heiner Igel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Projekt P4 Combination of ring laser with LLR and VLBI for optimal EOP determination and prediction
(Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Müller, Institute of Geodesy, LUH / Dr.-Ing. Robert Heinkelmann, GFZ Potsdam / Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Schuh, TU Berlin )

FOR 5939 website

DFG Research Unit 2881 "Diffusion Chronometry of Magmatic Systems"

Spokesperson: Prof. Sumit Chakraborty Ph.D., Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Projekt TP8 Large Scale Artificial Intelligence Augmented Mineral Analysis (LS-MAIner) – characterization of volcanic rocks for diffusion chronometry
(Prof. Dr.-Ing. Monika Sester, Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics / Renat Almeev Ph. D., Institute of Earth System Sciences)

FOR 2881 website

DFG Research Unit 5456 “Clock Metrology: A Novel Approach to TIME in Geodesy”

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Schreiber, TU München

Projekt TP 05 Determination of physical heights via time transfer
(Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Müller, Institute of Geodesy / PD Dr. Christian Lisdat, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB))

FOR 5456 website

Participation in DFG Research Units: Completed projects

DFG Research Unit 2131 "Data Assimilation for Improved Characterization of Fluxes across Compartmental Interfaces"

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Clemens Simmer, Universität Bonn

Projekt P5 "Coarsening of soil properties and topography for large scale fully coupled subsurface-land-atmosphere models" (2013-2023)
(Prof. Dr. Insa Neuweiler, Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Environmental Physics in Civil Engineering)

DFG-Forschergruppe 2416 " Space-Time Dynamics of Extreme Floods (SPATE) "

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Andreas H. Schumann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Projekt "Predictability of extreme floods" (2017-2023)
(Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Haberlandt, Institut für Hydrologie und Wasserwirtschaft)