Staff
Prof. Dr.
Annette Eicker
Building
A 17,
Room
00.12 (Büro)
Telegrafenberg
14473
Potsdam
Function and Responsibilities:
- Head of Section “Global Geomonitoring and Gravity Field” at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
- Professor for Geodesy and Adjustment Theory at HafenCity University Hamburg
Research Interests:
- Modeling the Earth's gravity field and its temporal variations
- Applicaitons of satlelite gravimetry in hydrology and climate science
Career:
- since 03/2026 Head of Section “Global Geomonitoring and Gravity Field”
- since 10/2026 2016 Professor for Geodesy and Adjustment Theory, HafenCity University Hamburg
- 2014 - 2016 Senior Scientist, Institute for Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn
- 2015/03 - 2015/09 Visiting Researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA
- 2014/05 - 2014/07 Visiting Researcher at University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France
- 2002 - 2014 Scientist at Institute for Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn
Education:
- 2008: PhD with topic Gravity Field Refinement by Radial Basis Functions from In-situ Satellite Data, University of Bonn
- 2002: Diploma Geodesy, University of Bonn
Projects:
- GFZ GRACE-C Project Manager (since 06/2026)
- GFZ GRACE-FO Project Manager (since 06/2026)
Research Boards and Committees:
- since 2026 Member of the Mission Advisory Group of ESA's Next Generation Gravity Mission (NGGM)
- since 2026 CARIOQA: Scientific and Technical Advisory Board member
- 2024-2025 Member of NASA’s Review Panel for the Science Data System of GRACE-C
- 2021-2025 President of the Geodesy Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)
- 2020-2023 Member of the ESA/NASA Ad hoc Joint Science Study Team (AJSST) and subsequently of the Joint Mass Change Mission Expert Group (JMCMEG)
- since 2019 President of the Inter-Commission Committees on Geodesy for Climate Research of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG)
- since 2019 Member of the IAG Executive Committee
- since 2019 Governing Board of the Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS)
- since 2019: Member of the German Geodetic Commission (DGK)
- 2017-2023 Member of the DFG Senate Commission on Earth System Research
- 2017-2021 Science Officer (until 2018) and Deputy President of the Geodesy Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)
- 2016–2019 Chair of Working Group Geodetic Observations for Climate Model Evaluation of IAG
- 2016–2019 Member of the Advisory Boards of the International Gravity Field Service (IGFS)
- 2011–2015 Chair of Study Group Land Hydrology from Gravimetry (JSG 2.7) of IAG
Awards:
- 2021 Best teaching award (Hamubrger Lehrpreis)
- 2018 Best teaching award (Hamubrger Lehrpreis)
- 2021 Best teaching award of the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Bonn