Staff
Dr.
Christoph Förste
Building
A 17,
Room
00.19 (Druckerraum)
Telegrafenberg
14473
Potsdam
Research Interests:
- Satellite Geodesy
- Gravimetry and Gravity Field determination
- Applications of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) in Geodesy
- Scientific computer programming, especially using FORTRAN, Perl
- Scientific high performance computing
Education:
- 1978 High-school diploma at the former Leibniz-Oberschule in Schkeuditz (Saxony, Germany)
- 1980-1985 University Leipzig, studies of physics, diploma about 1H-NMR relaxation of hydrocarbons adsorbed on zeolithes
- 1985-1988 Research Student at University Leipzig / Department "Grenzflächenphysik", doctoral thesis: "NMR investigations about the self diffusion of benzene adsorbed on NaX-zeolith and silicalite"
- 1988-1990 Research Scientist, former Zentralinstitut für Physik der Erde (ZIPE), Potsdam
- 1990-1991 Research Scientist, Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut, Munich
- 1992-2026 Research Scientist at GFZ Potsdam/Section 1.2
- since 2026 retired and guest
Projects:
- SLR station Potsdam
- Processing of global SLR data for orbit computation and continental drift analysis
- GPS orbit determination, software development
- PRARE onboard METEOR 3/7 and ERS-2
- Member of the CHAMP science team since 1995
- CHAMP Science Data System
- CHAMP Accelerometer preprocessing
- Gravity Field determination from the combination of CHAMP , GRACE, GOCE and surface data
- Satellite Gravity Gradiometry and the GOCE mission
- ESA-Project "GOCE High-level Processing Facility" (HPF)
- Ship gravimetry, among others within the FAMOS project (Finalising Surveys for the Baltic Motorways of the Sea)
- Co-PI of the SAMDAT project (Service and archive for mass distribution and mass transportation data)
Research Boards and Committees:
- Team member of the European GOCE Gravity Consortium (EGG-C) in the framework of the GOCE project (till 2019)
- Member of the IGETS directing board (International Geodynamics and Earth Tide Service) till 2026
- Member of the GGOS Governing Board (Global Geodetic Observing System) till 2026