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Curriculum vitae - Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr.h.c. Bernhard Heck
Position Professor, Geodetic Institute, University of Karlsruhe
Address Geodetic Institute, University of Karlsruhe, Englerstr. 7, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany.
Tel. +49-721-608-3674(Office), E-mail: heck@gik.uni-karlsruhe.de;
Secretary: Mrs. D. Bracko (Tel. +49-721-608-3668, Fax 49-721-608-6808,
e-mail: diana@gik.uni-karlsruhe.de;)
Education and degrees
1974 Diplom-Ingenieur in Geodesy, University of Karlsruhe
1979 Dr.-Ing. in Geodesy from Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, University of Karlsruhe
1984 Habilitation in Geodesy, University of Karlsruhe
Academic positions
1974 - 1979 Research Assistant at the Geodetic Institute, University of Karlsruhe
1979 – 1985 Associate Professor (Hochschulassistent) at the Geodetic Institute, University of
Karlsruhe
1985 - 1991 Associate Professor (Privatdozent) at the Geodetic Institute, University of Stuttgart;
research stays at Faculteit der Geodesie TU Delft, and Dept. of Geodetic Science and
Surveying, Ohio, State University, Columbus/OH, USA
since 1991 Full Professor (Physical and Satellite Geodesy) at the Geodetic Institute of the
University of Karlsruhe
Research
Physical Geodesy: terrestrial and spaceborne gravity field determination, geodetic boundary value
problems, vertical reference systems, modelling of topographic-isostatic effects.
Satellite Geodesy: GPS positioning (mitigation of errors due to multipath and atmospheric effects,
antenna calibration; determination of precibitable water vapor from GPS signals).
Mathematical Geodesy: textbook on geodetic reference systems; deterministic and stochastic models
in geodetic deformation analysis, time series analysis of permanent GPS data.
Interdisciplinary geodynamic projects: recent crustal movements in the regions of the Upper Rhine
Graben and Antarctic Peninsula.
About 130 scientific papers in refereed journals and Symposia Proceedings
About 160 presentations at scientific meetings
Supervisor of 15 PhD dissertations and 4 habilitations
Responsibilities, awards, memberships
1986 - 1991 Heisenberg Research Scholarship of the German Research Foundation (DFG). 1999 -
2003 President of IAG Section IV – General Theory and Methodology. Since 1996 Study Dean for
Geodesy and Geoinformatics at Karlsruhe University. Director of the Geoscientific Observatory in
Schiltach/Black Forest (BFO) since 1999. Member of the EUCOR-URGENT Scientific Steering
Committee since 2001. Since 2004 Spokesman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the DGK (Deutsche
Geodätische Kommission). 2006 Dr.h.c. at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
5 relevant publications
Heck, B.; Seitz, K.: A comparison of the tesseroid, prism and point-mass approaches for mass
reductions in gravity field modelling. Journal of Geodesy, 81 (2007), 121-136
Bischoff, W.; Heck, B.; Howind, J.; Teusch, A.: A procedure for estimating the variance function of
linear models and for checking the appropriateness of estimated variances: a case study of GPS
carrier-phase observations. Journal of Geodesy (2006) 79, 694 – 704
Rozsa, S.; Heck, B.; Mayer, M.; Seitz, K.; Westerhaus, M.; Zippelt, K.: Determination of
Displacements in the Upper Rhine Graben Area from GPS and Leveling Data. Int. J Earth Sci
(Geol. Rundsch.) (2005) 94: 538 - 549
Rozsa, Sz.; Mayer, M.; Westerhaus, M.; Seitz, K.; Heck, B.: Towards the determination of
displacements in the Upper Rhine Graben area using GPS measurements and precise antenna
modelling. Quaternary Science Reviews, 24 (2005), 425 - 438
Adam,. F.; Dede, K.; Heck, B.; Kutterer, H.; Mayer, M.; Seitz, K.; Szucs, L.: GPS deformation
measurements in the geodynamic test network Soskut. Periodica Polytechnica, Ser. Civ. Eng.
Vol. 46, No 2 (2003), 169 – 177