Curriculum Vitae Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Harald Schuh

Curriculum Vitae
Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Harald Schuh
(date of birth: 27. Feb. 1956)
home: Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
Schlöglgasse 29/7 Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, E128-1
1120 Wien Gusshausstr. 27-29
Austria 1040 Wien
Austria
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harald.schuh@tuwien.ac.at
EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF BONN, Bonn, Germany
Ph.D., 7/1986
Doctoral thesis: ‘VLBI for the determination of station
displacements and Earth rotation‘
OCCUPATIONAL CAREER
UNIVERSITY OF BONN, Bonn, Germany
Diploma (=M.S.) (Geodesy), 11/1979
Majors: Adjustment Theory and Statistics, Photogrammetry
HEBEL-GYMNASIUM PFORZHEIM, Pforzheim, Germany
Abitur, 5/1974
Mar. 2000 – Present University of Technology Vienna, Austria
Full Professor (Chair), Director of the Institute of Geodesy and
Geophysics (2003-2012), Head of Research Unit Advanced
Geodesy (2000-2012), Chair of Study Committee (until 5/2007),
Vice-Dean of Study Affairs (until 12/2007), Chair of Faculty
Board (2006-2011)
Apr.1995 – Feb. 2000 German Geodetic Research Institute (DGFI), Munich
Senior Scientist and Head of Dept. 1 ‘Earth Rotation‘
Jan. 1989 – Mar. 1995 German Air and Space Agency (DLR), Cologne
Program Scientist and
Coordinator for research programmes of the EC
Jan. 1987 – Dec. 1988 Geodetic Institute of the University of Bonn
Associate Professor (C1)
Oct. 1980 – Dec. 1986 Geodetic Institute of the University of Bonn
Scientific Assistant
Jan. 1980 – Sept. 1980 Photogrammetric Institute of the University of Bonn
Scientific Assistant (50%)

PUBLICATIONS Author or co-author of about 300 publications
(68 peer-reviewed),
main subjects: VLBI, Earth rotation, geodynamics, reference
frames, troposphere, ionosphere; a list is available upon request;
Editor or co-editor of twelve national and international
publications (books, proceedings, or special issues);
Co-editor of Journal of Geodesy (Jan. 2004 – Dec. 2007),
Co-editor of ‘vgi’ (Journal of the Austrian OVG), of ZfV
(Journal of the German DVW), of Advances in Astronomy and
Space Physics (AASP), and of Journal of Geodesy and
Geoinformation (Turkey)
MEMBERSHIPS and Elected Vice-President of the International Association
PROJECTS Geodesy (IAG) since July 2011
President of the Austrian National Committee on Earth Sciences
for the IUGG (ÖNK) since Jan. 2009, re-appointed January
2012
President of the ÖGK (Austrian Geodetic Commission)
(since Jan. 2008, re-elected January 2012)
http://www.oegk-geodesy.at/
Corresponding Member of the DGK
(German Geodetic Commission) (since 2002)
Elected Chair of the International VLBI Service for Geodesy
and Astrometry (IVS) Directing Board (since Feb. 2007)
http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Elected member of the International Association of Geodesy
(IAG) Executive Committee (since July 2003, re-elected July
2007) as Service Representative http://www.iag-aig.org/
President of IAG Subcommission 1.4 Interaction of Celestial
and Terrestrial Reference Frames (March 2006 till July 2011)
http://iag.ensg.ign.fr/index.php?id=47
and member of the Steering Committee of IAG Commission 1
‘Reference Frames’ (2007-2011)
Member of the Steering Committee of IAG Commission 3
‘Earth Rotation and Geodynamics’ (2003-2007, 2007-2011)
President of IAU Commission 19 (C19) “Rotation of the Earth”
(August 2009 till August 2012)
http://www.iau.org/science/scientific_bodies/commissions/19/
Member of the Organizing Committee (OC) of C19 as IAG
Representative (2006-2009), as C19 President (2009-2012). and
as C19 Past President (2012-2015)

Member of Division I (“Fundamental Astronomy”) Organizing
Committee (2009 – 2012)
http://www.iau.org/science/scientific_bodies/divisions/I/
Deputy-Representative of the IVS in the GGOS (Global
Geodetic Observing System) Steering Committee (2007-2011)
http://www.ggos.org/
Elected member of the International Center for Earth Tides
(ICET) Directing Board (since July 2003)
http://www.astro.oma.be/ICET/directing/composition.htm
Chairman of IVS Working Group 2 (2001-2002)
‘Product Specification and Observing Programs‘
Chairman of IAG/ETC Working Group 6 (1997-2000)
‘Solid Earth Tides in Space Geodetic Techniques‘and co-chair
since 2001 (within Commission 3 of the IAG)
Member or consultant of various commissions, study groups and
working groups in geodesy (IAG) and astronomy (IAU)
Vice-President of the Austrian Society for Surveying and
Geoinformation (OVG) (2006-2012)
http://www.ovg.at/index.php?id=902
Member of Scientific Advisory Board of the German Research
Group on Satellite Geodesy (FGS) (since June 2010)
Member of Scientific Advisory Board of the European Optical
Fibre Project NEAT-FT (since Sept. 2012)
Chair of Scientific Advisory Board of the Deutsches
Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI), München, Germany
(since November 2010)
Convener or Co-Convener of several national and international
symposia, meetings and workshops
Coordinator of the IVS Pilot Project – Tropospheric Parameters
(May 2002 – April 2003) and of the IVS operational project
TROP (since April 2003)
Referee, member of evaluation committees and consultant of the
German Ministry of Research and Technology and of the DFG
Coordinator of the German Research Group on Earth Rotation
(Sept. 1999 - Aug. 2003) funded by the German Research
Foundation

Coordinator of the International EOP Prediction Comparison
Campaign (EOP_PCC) within the IERS (since April 2005)
Principal proposer and project coordinator of five national
research projects funded by the German Research Foundation
(DFG) and of seven research projects funded by the FWF
(Austrian Science Fund), Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
Co-proposer of thirteen research projects funded by DFG,
FWF, and other funding organizations
Co-PI of the proposal for the GRASP space mission by
NASA/JPL
Principal proposer and project leader of several bi-lateral
projects funded by DAAD, MPG, and ÖAD (Germany-China,
Germany-Spain, Austria-China, Austria-Hungary, Austria-
Poland, Austria-Spain, and others) and of project BALGEOS
with several Balkan countries
Supervisor, reviewer or examinator of more than 30 diploma
theses and of 24 doctor theses since 1983.
Supervisor of 4 habilitations.
At present: Supervisor of eight doctor theses, which will be
completed within the next three years
(topics: VLBI, GPS, combination of space geodetic techniques,
troposphere, ionosphere, Earth rotation, interactions in system
Earth)
AWARDS Descartes Prize 2003 of the European Union (300.000.- EUR)
for the Project ‚Non-rigid Earth nutation model – Pinpoint
positioning in a wobbly world’
Elected as a Fellow of the International Association of Geodesy
(IAG) in July 2007
Doctor honoris causa (Dr. h.c.) of the University of
Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Geodesy (UACEG), Sofia,
Bulgaria (October 2009)
Vening Meinesz Medal 2011 of the European Geosciences
Union (EGU)