Full Professor at Technische Universität Darmstadt 1971-2003
Fields of research and teaching: Satellite and Physical Geodesy, Geodynamics
Honours
- Chevalier de la Couronne du Chene, Luxemburg,
- Adjunct Professor Tongji University, Shanghai
- Adjunct Professor University of Wuhan
- Member of Finnish Academy of Science, Helsinki
- Member of Geodyn. Comm. of Swedish Acad. of Science, Stockholm,
- Honorary Doctor´s Degree Univ. FAF, Munich
- Fellow of IUGG (2015)
Former Positions, Memberships
- Editor of Manuscripta Geodaetica
- Member of the Directing Board of Bureau Gravimetrique,
- President of various Working Groups of the Intern. Assoc. of Geodesy (IAG)
- President of IAG-Commission 3
C.V. of Prof. Erwin Groten (opens in new tab)
In 1990, in acknowledgment for his long term membership in the IAU's Commission of Earth´s Rotation, IAU named asteroid 15263 Erwingroten (Wikipedia's list of minor planets 15001-16000).