Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Jörn Hoffmann

German Aerospace Center
Space Administration
Königswinterer Str. 522-524
53227 Bonn
Germany
(Ph) +49 (228) 447-269
(Fax) +49 (228) 447-747
email: joern.hoffmann@dlr.de
http://www.hoffmannsweb.de/joern
https://www.dlr.de/

Professional experience

Professional functions

Professional experience

2007-present	German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Space Agency, Senior Scientific Officer. Developing and representing national positions on the European Copernicus programme and international initiatives including GEO and CEOS; national measures in the context of Copernicus.
11/2015-05/2016	European Space Agency, Earth Observation Directorate: Seconded National Expert. Supporting the preparation of Earth Observation Programmes for ESA's Ministerial Conference 2016.
09/2007-03/2008	Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs: Policy Officer (seconded by DLR). Coordinating the national participation in – and contributions to – the European GMES (now Copernicus) and the international GEO initiatives.
2003-2007	German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), German Aerospace Center (DLR), Research Associate. Research on applications of differential radar interferometry (InSAR) and the "permanent scatterer" (PS) technique. Applied research projects in cooperation with European partners. Supervising graduate and undergraduate students.
2001	United States Geological Survey, Hydrologist. Documenting a computer program for the simulation of aquifer system compaction.
1993-1994	Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND), Civil servant. Public relations campaigns and analyses on tropical rain forests and municipal measures for climate change mitigation.

Professional Functions

since 2014	Delegate in the Copernicus Committee and Copernicus User Forum.
2014 - 2015	Co-Chair of the Implementation Plan Working Group of GEO.
2012 - 2014	Chair of the Supersite Coordination Team of the Committee on Earth Observing Satellites (CEOS).
2011 - 2013	Delegate in the GMES Committee.
2008 - 2011	German Co-Chair of the Science and Technology Committee (STC) of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO).
2009 - 2011	Delegate in the GMES Partners Board.
2007 - 2009	Delegate in the GMES Advisory Committee.
2006 - 2009	Hydrogeology Journal, Associate Editor.

Project Experience

2006 - 2008	TanDEM-X Mission: Conceptional preparation of the sub-system for deriving the digital elevation product.
2005 - 2008	GMES Terrafirma: Development of an operational service for monitoring urban ground displacements in an international consortium.
2005	SRTM Evaluation: Development of a methodology to optimally merge digital elevations models of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.

Education

1997-2003	Stanford University, Stanford, California Ph.D. Geophysics (2003): The application of satellite radar interferometry to the study of land subsidence over developed aquifer systems M.Sc. Geophysics (1999): Separating the surface decorrelation term from the correlation measurement in interferometric data and the use of volume decorrelation effects for inferring vegetation parameters
1994-97	Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany Vordiplom Geophysik (1996)
1992	Hardtberg Gymnasium, Bonn, Germany Abitur (1992), Majors in Mathematics and Physics

Awards and Fellowships

1999-2003	National Aeronautics & Space Administration: Earth System Science Fellowship
2000	American Geophysical Union, Hydrology Section: Outstanding student paper award (Fall Meeting, 1999)
1997-98	Department of Geophysics, Stanford University: Departmental Fellowship
1995-2000	German National Merit Foundation: Fellowship

Publications

Hoffmann, Jörn und Lena Schultz-Lieckfeld Das Europäische Copernicus-Programm, Zeitschrift für Geodäsie, Geoinformation und Landmanagement 4(2020)2020.
Hoffmann, Jörn, Mapping damage during the Bam (Iran) earthquake using interferometric coherence, International Journal of Remote Sensing 28(6), pp 1199-1216, 2007.
Galloway, Devin and Jörn Hoffmann, The application of satellite differential SAR interferometry-derived ground displacements in hydrogeology, Hydrogeology Journal 15 (1) doi 10.1007/s10040-006-0121-5, 2006.
Pavelko, M. T., Hoffmann, J., N. A. Damar. Interferograms Showing Land Subsidence and Uplift in Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, 1992–99. Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5218, U.S. Geological Survey, 17 p., 2006
Hoffmann, Jörn and Diana Walter. How complimentary are SRTM X- and C-band data?. Phogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 72(3), March 2006. (preprint)
Hoffmann, Jörn. The future of satellite remote sensing in hydrogeology. Hydrogeology Journal, 13 (1), pp. 247-250, doi: 10.1007/s10040-004-0409-2, 2005.
Roth, Achim and Jörn Hoffmann. Die dreidimensionale Kartierung der Erde. Kartographische Nachrichten, 54 (3), pp. 123-129, 2004.
Hoffmann, Jörn and Howard A. Zebker. Prospecting for horizontal surface displacements in Antelope Valley, California using satellite radar interferometry. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(F1), 6011, doi: 10.1029/2003JF000055, 2003.
Hoffmann, Jörn, S. A. Leake, D. L. Galloway, and Alicia M. Wilson. MODFLOW-2000 Ground-Water Model - User Guide to the Subsidence and Aquifer-System Compaction (SUB) Package. Open-File Report 03-233, U.S. Geological Survey, 2003.
Hoffmann, Jörn, Devin L. Galloway, Howard A. Zebker. Inverse modeling of interbed storage parameters using land subsidence observations, Antelope Valley, California. Water Resources Research, 39 (2), 1031, doi: 10.1029/2001WR001252, 2003.
Hoffmann, Jörn, Howard A. Zebker, Devin L. Galloway, and Falk Amelung. Seasonal subsidence and rebound in Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, observed by synthetic aperture radar interferometry. Water Resources Research, Vol. 37, No. 6, Pages 1551-1566, June 2001.

Selected presentations

Hoffmann, Jörn, The GEO Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratories initiative, International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment, Beijing, China 2013.
Hoffmann, Jörn, H. Staudenrausch, Contributing diverse national resources to GEOSS – Germany’s experience with accessing national resources for making a voluntary contribution, AGU Fall Meeting, Abstract PA41A-1716, 2011.
Hoffmann, Jörn, How complementary are SRTM X- and C-band data?, SRTM Workshop, Reston, Virginia, USA, June 14-16, 2005.
Hoffmann, Jörn, A. Roth, and S. Voigt, Interferometric displacement and damage assessment for the 2003 Bam earthquake, ENVISAT Symposium 2004, Salzburg, Austria, September 6-10, 2004.
Hoffmann, Jörn, Satellite remote sensing in hydrogeology, Geological Society of America 2004 Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 7-10, 2004 (invited).
Hoffmann, Jörn, D. L. Galloway, H. A. Zebker, Inverse modeling of interbed storage parameters using land subsidence observations, Antelope Valley, California, Eos Trans., AGU, 84(46) Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract G41A-05, 2003 (invited).
Hoffmann, Jörn, A. Roth, A. Tetzlaff, and S. Voigt, Detecting coal fires in China using differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), FRINGE 2003 workshop, Frascati, Italy, December 1-5, 2003.
Hoffmann, Jörn, Devin L. Galloway, and Howard A. Zebker, 2003. Inverse modeling of regional aquifer-system compaction based on land subsidence measurements, Antelope Valley, California in Prince, K.R. and Galloway, D.L., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Subsidence Interest Group Conference, Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Galveston, Texas, November 27-29, 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-308, pp. 108-114.
Hoffmann, Jörn, and Howard A. Zebker, 2002. Prospecting for horizontal surface displacements accompanying land subsidence in Antelope Valley, CA using InSAR. Eos Trans., AGU, 83(47) Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract G61B-0981.
Hoffmann, Jörn, Howard A. Zebker, and Devin L. Galloway, 2002. InSAR-derived land-surface displacements used to estimate aquifer-system properties for a subsiding ground-water basin, Antelope Valley, California. European Geophysical Society, 2002 XXVII General Assembly, April 2002.
Hoffmann, Jörn, Howard A. Zebker, Devin L. Galloway, and Falk Amelung, 2001. Constraining spatially varying elastic storage properties in deforming aquifer systems using interferometric synthetic aperture radar. Eos Trans., AGU, 82(47) Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract G22D-06,(INVITED).
Hoffmann, Jörn, Devin L. Galloway, and Howard A. Zebker, 2001. Calibrating a regional ground-water flow and subsidence model in Antelope Valley, California using InSAR-derived subsidence maps. Eos Trans., AGU, 82(47) Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract H41E-0320.
Hoffmann, Jörn, Devin L. Galloway, and Howard A. Zebker, 2000. InSAR-derived Displacement Maps Provide an Additional Constraint for Ground-Water Flow Modeling. Eos Trans., AGU, 81(48) Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract H72B-13.
Hoffmann, Jörn, Howard A. Zebker, and Devin L. Galloway, 1999. Seasonal Subsidence Patters in Las Vegas Observed by Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar. Eos Trans., AGU, 80(46) Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract H21C-02.
Rabus, Bernhard T.; Hoffmann, Jörn, 1998. Spatial and Temporal Surface Motion Characteristics of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, Measured by ERS-SAR Interferometry. Eos Trans., AGU, 79(45) Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H21D-04.

Languages

German (mother language)
English (fluent)
French (fair)
Italian (basic)

Computer skills

UNIX
C
C++
Java
Matlab
IDL
familiar with common application programs

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