Visit of Professor Christopher Kotsakis at the Department of Geodesy | Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Gdańsk University of Technology

From 21.08 to 11.09.2024, the Department of Geodesy will have the pleasure of hosting Prof. Krzysztof Kotsakis - an employee of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

The visit aims to stabilize the long-term scientific cooperation of Prof. Kotsakis with employees of the Gdańsk University of Technology in the field of theory of geodetic data elaboration. The arrival of the Greek scientist to the Gdańsk university as a visiting professor is possible due to the financial resources obtained by Dr. Eng. Marek Hubert Zienkiewicz as part of the Einsteinium Short-Term Incoming Visits competition.

Visiting Professor

Dr. Christopher Kotsakis is a full professor of Geodesy in the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds a PhD degree in Geomatics Engineering from the University of Calgary (Canada) and he works on the areas of satellite, physical and mathematical geodesy since 1995. Dr. Kotsakis is an elected Fellow of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) which he has served in several roles since 1999. Currently, he is the representative of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) to the Committee of Space Research (COSPAR) of the International Council of Scientific Unions, and he also serves in the Governing Board of the IAG Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) as the representative of IAG Commission 1. His research is focused on modern data analysis and optimization techniques for geodetic estimation problems in relation to Earth observation and monitoring, with special emphasis on geodetic reference frames and modern height systems.

Project Manager

Dr. Marek Hubert Zienkiewicz is a graduate of the Faculty of Geodesy, Spatial and Civil Engineering at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, where, under the supervision of prof. Zbigniew Wiśniewski, he developed a doctoral dissertation tilted "Selected theoretical and applied properties of Msplit estimation", which he defended in 2017. After completing his doctoral studies, he continued his research career as an assistant professor at the Department of Geodesy and Oceanography at the Maritime University in Gdynia. In March 2019, he was employed as an assistant professor at the Department of Geodesy, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdańsk University of Technology, where he held the position of deputy head in the period 03.2022-06.2023. Research interests of Dr. Zienkiewicz's concerns theoretical and applied properties of method of the parameter estimation in a split functional model of geodetic observations, deformation analysis of geodetic networks, development and study of properties of non-conventional methods of data processing, as well as processing of geodetic observations by using the total and classical least squares method.