PhD
Elmas Sinem Ince van der Wal
Building
A 17,
Room
00.16 (Büro)
Telegrafenberg
14473
Potsdam
Function and Responsibilities:
Scientist
Director of ICGEM Service
Research Interests:
- Global gravity field determination, geoid modelling
- LEO missions
- Airborne and shipborne gravimetry
- Spectral analysis in geodesy
Career:
- Since Jan. 2018 - ICGEM Service Director
- Since Aug. 2016 - Scientist at GFZ
- 2012 - 2016 Research Associate and Teaching Assistant, YU
- 2009 - 2011 Research Affiliate, Natural Resources Canada
Education:
- PhD ESSE, Lassonde School of Eng., YU (link to dissertation)
- GOCE Gradiometer Measurement Disturbances and Their Modelling by Means of Ionospheric Dynamics
- MSc Geomatics Eng., Schulich School of Eng., UofC (link to thesis)
- Geoid Investigations for the New Vertical Datum in Canada
- BSc (Hons) Geodesy and Photogrammetry Eng., ITU
Projects:
- PI, SAMDAT ( Service and Archive for Mass Distribution And mass Transport data), DFG Research Data and Software Programme, start in 2024
- PI, GRAV4GEO (Gravitationsfeldmodellierung der Erdtopographie für GEOdetische und GEOphysikalische Anwendungen), DFG Research Grants, since Jan 2023
- Co-PI, SPACETIME (Investigation of the relationship between the spatiotemporal dynamics of terrestrial water and carbon storage with reference to climate change, land use, land cover, and land management through data-driven modeling over Turkey), BMBF-TÜBiTAK joint project, since Jan 2022
- Scientist, FAMOS (Finalising Surveys for the Baltic Motorways of the Sea), 2016-2019
Research Boards and Committees:
- COST-G ICGEM representative
- Member of GGOS Consortium
- Member of GGOS Committee on EGVs
- Member of GGOS DOI Working Group
Awards:
- 2016 Best PhD Dissertation in the Department of Earth and Space Science and Eng., YU
- 2014 CGU Best Student Paper in all fields of geophysics, Banff, Alberta
- 2013, 2014 CGU Geodesy Section Award for Best Student Paper
- 2009 - 2011 RAP Bursary, Natural Resources Canada
- 2011 Helmut Moritz Graduate Scholarship, UofC
- 2010 F. R. Helmert Award, UofC
- 2008-2016 Various Travel Grants
Invited Talks:
- 2020 SIRGAS Symposia, virtual, invited speaker
- 2019 ISAG, invited Keynote Speaker
- 2019 Global Geodetic Reference Frame Symposium, invited Speaker