Professor at the Technical University of Munich
Research Unit Satellite Geodesy and Geodetic Observatory Wettzell
Karl Ulrich Schreiber received his Ph.D. in applied physics in Göttingen in 1988. Since then, he works for the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in the field of instrumentation for Space Geodesy. His interests are in Satellite and Lunar Laser Ranging (SLR/LLR), optical free space time transfer via satellite, optical delay compensated time and frequency distribution and above all Sagnac Interferometry. He developed ring laser technology for the observation of subtle variations in Earth rotation. His large ring laser gyroscopes seeded the field of rotational seismology. He habilitated in 1999 and is Professor at the “Research Unit Satellite Geodesy” of TUM and an adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He received the Huygens research medal (for significant progress in geoscientific instrumentation) of the European Geoscience Union in 2016.