Thomas Wunderlich (geodesist)

Thomas Alexander Wunderlich (born May 1, 1955 in Vienna ) is an Austrian geodesist who teaches as a professor of geodesy at the Technical University of Munich .

Life

The son of Walter Wunderlich , a long-time Viennese university professor of geometry , studied surveying at the Vienna University of Technology (diploma thesis on "Measurement and calculation of a spatial polygon in the Vienna test network ") and then became a scientific assistant to Gerhard Brandstätter , and later to Heribert Kahmen . In addition to teaching and research in the field of general Geodesy and Measurement was Wunderlich in subjects Geodesy worked - among others in his dissertation entitled "The ab initio determination of Refraktionswinkeln " that deals with the theory and measurement of a spatial quadrangle at the Hohe Wand (Lower Austrian Limestone Alps ) busy.

Scientific collaborations often took him to the Federal Republic of Germany , in particular to the University of Hanover , where he was a Humboldt fellow in 1987/88 . Hannover handed Wunderlich his habilitation on ( The dangerous loci of pseudoranges measurement, a special problem with high-precision GPS - networks ). As a lecturer , he held lectures and lectures at congresses that dealt, among other things, with innovative methods in engineering geodesy and radio navigation . In 1997 he became an associate professor at the Vienna University of Technology. In 2000 he was offered a position at the Technical University of Munich; it was the reason to expand his field of work to include geodetic deformation analysis , laser scanning and cell phone positioning .

Wunderlich has been a full member of the German Geodetic Commission since 2002 , of which he was permanent secretary in 2008.

Honors

• 2019: Soldner's Medal
• 2010: Honorary Professor of the Timişoara Polytechnic University
• 2009, 2010, 2011: GeodäTUM award for excellent teaching
• 2008: Medal of Honor of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Slovak Technical University (STU) Bratislava
• 2006: Silver badge of honor of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Timişoara
• 2002: Friedrich Hopfner Medal
• 2001: Honorary member of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the STU Bratislava

Fonts

• The dangerous places of pseudorange location. Habilitation thesis. TU Vienna 1993.

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Wunderlich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Wunderlich on the website of the TU Munich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Soldner's Medal for Professor Wunderlich. In: lrg.tum.de. November 28, 2019, accessed January 20, 2020 . 
2. ^ Friedrich Hopfner Medal . In: oegk-geodesy.at . Retrieved November 30, 2017.