ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
Chris Rizos obtained his Bachelor of Surveying (Hons.1) degree from The University of New South Wales in 1975, and his PhD from the same university in 1980. He was a Fulbright Fellow in 1977, a Rothmans Fellow in 1979, and the holder of an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 1981-83 while a postdoctoral scholar in Munich.
In 1984 Dr. Rizos returned to the School of Surveying (the name was
changed to the School of Geomatic Engineering in 1994), as a Research Officer
where he joined the team researching the new GPS technology for high precision
applications such as the measurement of continental drift. He was appointed
to a lectureship at UNSW in 1987, was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1989, and
to Associate Professor in 1996. He is manager of the School's Geodesy Research
Laboratory, as well as leader of the Satellite Navigation and Positioning (SNAP)
group, which specialises in research for a variety of static and kinematic applications
of GPS, and is the premier academic GPS R&D group in Australia.
Dr. Rizos has been active GPS education since 1985, having convened and presented at a large number of GPS workshops, seminars and conferences, in Australia and overseas. He regularly speaks at GPS conferences and workshops, and was co-author of the first textbook on GPS surveying in 1985. He is a co-convenor of the Tropical School of Geodesy, a member of the council of the Australian Institute of Navigation, a chairman of a special study group of the International Association of Geodesy, as well as a member of several commissions and sub-commissions relating to geodesy.
He has spent two periods of sabbatical leave in Germany, one at the German Geodetic Research Institute (DGFI), in Munich, in 1991; and the other at the Geo-Sciences Research Centre (GFZ), in Potsdam, in 1995. He is presently on sabbatical in Singapore.
His teaching interests are in GPS surveying and navigation, Law of the Sea, classical geodesy and advanced topics in geodesy. His present fields of research are the GPS technology and software for precise positioning applications.
© Chris Rizos, SNAP-UNSW, 1999
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