Johannes Böhm (geodesist)

Johannes Böhm (born July 12, 1972 in Zwettl ) is an Austrian geodesist and university professor for higher geodesy at the Vienna University of Technology . Since October 2012, he has been head of the Higher Geodesy Research Department. He became internationally known for the development of the Vienna Mapping Functions for the precise reduction of VLBI and GPS measurements. For this he received the Guy Bomford Prize of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) in 2011 and the Vienna Engineering Prize of the Chamber of Architects and Engineering Consultants of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland in 2014 .

Böhm studied surveying in Vienna and became a university assistant to Harald Schuh in the early 2000s . His dissertation, supervised by Schuh, deals with the influence of the troposphere on observations of the Very Long Baseline Interferometry ( VLBI ). The current research focus is on the VLBI with the development of the Vienna VLBI and Satellite Software (VieVS).

Internationally, Böhm is active as division president for geodesy in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) (from 2017 to 2021) and as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG).

Web links

• Homepage of Univ. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Johannes Böhm on the Vienna University of Technology page
• ORCID account from Johannes Böhm