Dr.-Ing. Jan Martin Brockmann

Current Lectures

• see Basis, material is shared via eCampus

• Lectures and practicals “Numerik in C++/Numerics in C++”, yearly since WS2009/2010
• Lectures and lab “Paralleles Wissenschaftliches Rechnen in C++”, WS2013/2014-WS2015/2016
• Lecture “Geodätische Optimierung – Numerische Methoden”, WS2016/2017, WS2018/2019, WS2020/2021
• Lecture “Geodätische Optimierung – Robuste Parameterschätzung”, WS2017/2018, WS2019/2020, WS2021/2022
• Lecture “Statistics and Adjustment Theory”, yearly since WS2017/2018
• Practicals “Geodätische Optimierung – Numerische Methoden”, WS2008/2009, WS2014/2015, WS2016/2017
• Practicals “Stochastische Prozesse”, WS2015/2016
• Practicals “Geodätische Optimierung – Numerische Methoden”, WS2008/2009, WS2014/2015, WS2016/2017
• Practicals “Stochastische Prozesse”, WS2015/2016
• Masterprojekt “Space Geodesy Simulator Bonn”, since 2012
• Seminar “Ausgewählte Kapitel der Numerik”, WS2016/2017-WS2021/2022
• Supervision of different diploma, M.Sc., B.Sc and  M.Sc. thesis, since 2009

Jan Martin Brockmann started to work in the Theoretical Geodesy Group already as a student assistant in 2007. After the finalization of the diploma degree course “Vermessungswesen” and his diploma thesis in the Theoretical Geodesy group he received the degree Dipl.-Ing in 2008.

2008 he started in the Theoretical Geodesy group as a PhD candidate and worked in the context of gravity field recovery from observations collected by the satellite mission GOCE. As a member of the EGG-C and the ESA HPF Team he was involved in the official processing of the observations and contributed significantly to the generation of the gravity field models computed with the so called time-wise approach. The computational requirements brought lead towards the field of high performance computing. He defended his PhD thesis “On High Performance Computing in Geodesy — Applications in Global Gravity Field Determination” in that context in 2014.

Since 2014 he is working as postdoctoral researcher in the group, still working in the context of high performance computing and global gravity field determination. Currently the focus is on the joint estimation and separation of gravity field and geodetic dynamic ocean topography models from altimetry observations. Here again high performance computing plays an important role.

• 2023: IAG Best Reviewer Award (2021-2022).
• 2022: Lehrpreis Geodäsie der Landwirtschaftlichen Fakultät.
• 2016: DGK Wissenchaftspreis Committee for Geodesy of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, national and international effort in the context of “Computational Geodesy”.
• 2015: Fakultätspreis, Geodäsie and Geoinformation, outstanding paper during graduation.
• 2011: EGU Outstanding student poster (OSP) award, (EGU2011-12084).

• 2023-: Member of the CRC 1502 “Regional Climate Change: Disentangling the Role of Land Use and Water Management”, DETECT, (www)

• 2022-: Member in the Network “Center for Earth System Observation and Computational Analysis”, CESOC, (www)
• 2021-: Member in TRA1 “Mathematics, Modelling and Simulation of Complex Systems”,
  University of Bonn (www)
• 2016–2019: Member in JSG0.12 “Advanced computational methods for recovery of high-resolution gravity field models”, ICCT, International Association of Geodesy.
• 2008–: Member of European GOCE Gravity Consortium (EGG-C) and GOCE High-Level Processing Facility, European Space Agency.

• Reviewer for serveral journals, e.g.:  Advances in Space Research, Journal of Geodesy, Journal of Geophysical Research,  Surveys in Geophysics, for details see WoS
• Member of scientific committee “ESA Living Planet Symposium” 2016, 2019, 2022

• in academic self-administration (occasionally executive board IGG, STUKO GuG, recruitment committees)