ROB Staff Involved in Troposphere Projects
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Eric Pottiaux (Head of GNSS Tropospheric Reesearch)Eric Pottiaux received his Masters degree in Mathematics from the Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium, in 1998. Since then, he is member of the GNSS research group at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) and he works on the interaction between the Earth's neutral atmosphere and Space Geodesy techniques. From 1999 to 2006, he has taken part in the European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST) Action 716 "Exploitation of ground-based GPS for climate and numerical weather prediction applications" and to the European Commission TOUGH project "Targeting Optimal Use of GPS Humidity Measurements in Meteorology". Since 2005, he is responsible for the Belgian (geodetic) contribution to the EUMETNET EIG GNSS Water Vapour Program (E-GVAP) and he acts as national delegate in the geodetic expert team of this project. In 2010, he received his doctor's degree in exact Sciences from the UCL for his works in GNSS-meteorology. Today, he works at ROB in the framework of the Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence (STCE). He is also member of the International GNSS Service (IGS) troposphere working group , member of the IAG Working Group 4.3.3 and co-chair of the working group 2 within the COST Action ES1206 Advanced Global Navigation Satellite Systems tropospheric products for monitoring severe weather events and climate (GNSS4SWEC). |
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Carine Bruyninx (Head of the GNSS Team)Dr. C. Bruyninx manages the GNSS research group at the Royal Observatory of Belgium. As chair of the EUREF Technical Working group, she is strongly involved in EUREF activities and more specifically the EUREF Permanent Network (EPN) for which she manages the EPN Central Bureau since 1996. At the IAG level, she chairs the Working Group on Regional Dense Velocity Fields within sub-commission 1.3. She is also heavily involved in the International GNSS Service (IGS). This is reflected by her membership in the IGS Governing Board, several of the IGS Working Groups as well as the IGS Infrastructure Committee. C. Bruyninx is also a member of the advisory editorial board of "GPS Solutions". Her research activities concentrate on the use of permanent GNSS tracking stations for different types of applications including reference frame maintenance, measurement of long-term ground deformations, time and frequency transfer. |
