People

Dr. habil. Ulrich Schreiber, Fundementalstation Wettzell, Germany. Manages the "Wettzell Satellite Laser Ranging System." He is managing the ring laser project in collaboration with the LMU and the University of Canterbury.

Prof. Dr. Heiner Igel, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Professor of seismology at the LMU, active in the area of computational and experimental seismology.

Dr. Alain Cochard, Post doc LMU, Germany, Attempting to answer the following questions: Is it important to study rotations generated by earthquakes? In what circumstances (topography, site effects, earthquake kinematics, etc.) are they potentially damaging? What can they teach us (i.e., provide some constraints) about the soil properties? about the rupture process?

Alex Velikoseltsev, Development of the sensor error model, analyzing of the long term timeseries for the instrumental errors effects, also part of engineering work for Geosensor project. Research background in navigation systems and devices, 2 years working in the CRSI "Elektropribor" as a researcher in the field of an integrated strapdown navigation systems algorithms.

Asher Flaws, A visiting student from Christchurch, New Zealand, funded by the International Quality Network Georisk. Asher is determining the usefulness of a ring laser gyroscope as a rotational seismometer, helping to develop a standard signal processing and data acquisition systems for such a seismological ring laser. He has now moved on to a Ph.D. project in experimental physics at the Technical University Munich.

Wiwit Suryanto, from Indonesia, came to Munich as a visiting student funded by the Internatonal Quality Network Georisk. He was accepted as a Ph.D. student within the IQN research group and after the project ended in 2004 was offered a scholarship in the Bavarian Elite Network THESIS. Wiwit is working on the problem of deriving rotations from seismic array data.