CV 

Curriculum Vitae


Name:     Dr. Thomas Hobiger
 
Adress:     National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
4-2-1 Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei
184-8795 Tokyo
Japan

Biographic data

Born:     9th of May, 1978 in St. Poelten, Austria
 
Citizenship:     Austria
 
Marital status:     married
 
Languages:     German (mother tongue)
English (fluently, TOEIC 945/990)
Japanese (intermediate, JLPT level 3)

Academic Degrees

May 2002:     Msc. in Geodesy and Geophysics,
Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
 
Nov. 2005:     PhD in Geodesy and Geophysics,
Vienna Univ. of Technology , Austria

Fellowships and Awards

Oct. 2002:     Final degree award,
Faculty of Natural Science,
Vienna Univ. of Technology
 
Jul. 2004
- Mar.2005:
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers(Short-term), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
 
Oct. 2006
- Sept.2008:    
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers(Standard), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Employments

Feb. 2003
- Jun. 2004:
Research Assistant - doctoral course student
Research Group Advanced Geodesy,
Inst. of Geodesy and Geophysics,
Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
 
Jul. 2004
- Mar. 2005:
JSPS short term fellow
Radio Astronomy Applications Group,
Kashima Space Research Center,
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
 
Apr. 2005
- Sep. 2006:
Research Assistant
Research Group Advanced Geodesy,
Inst. of Geodesy and Geophysics,
Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
 
Oct. 2006
- Sep. 2008:
JSPS fellow - PostDoc
Space-Time Standards Group,
Kashima Space Research Center,
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
 
Oct. 2008
- now
Expert Researcher
Space-Time Standards Group,
Space-Time Measurement Project,
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan

Activities

  Member of the IVS observing program committee (Mar. 2010 - now)
 
  Officer of the Geodetic Society of Japan (Apr. 2009 - now)
 
  Chair of the IAG working group 4.3.3 (Oct. 2007 - now)
 
  Member of the IVS working group 4 on VLBI data structures (Oct. 2007 - now )
 
  Member of the IAG working group on ionosphere modelling (Oct. 2003 - Sept. 2007)

Memberships

AGU American Geophysical Union
EGU European Geosciences Union
IAG International Association of Geodesy
GSJ The Geodetic Society of Japan
VCON VLBI Consortium of Japan
IVS International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry