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Urs Hugentobler is a professor specializing in Satellite Geodesy at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He was born in 1959 and has had a distinguished academic career within precision geodetic applications, including global satellite systems such as GPS and Galileo. He has extensive research interests in precise localization and geodynamic applications, which encompass precise orbit determination and modeling of low-orbit satellites along with time frequency transfer. Before joining TUM in 2006, where he headed the Department of Space Geodesy and TUM’s Space Geodesy Research Unit, Dr. Hugentobler was a postdoctoral researcher at the European Space Agency (ESA) and served as the head of the GPS Research Group at the University of Bern, where he also completed both his theoretical physics studies and doctorate in astronomy in 1997. His research contributions include key publications on topics such as DORIS observations, satellite attitude, and solar radiation pressure modeling of Galileo satellites. He has collaborated with various organizations, including the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, to support scientific the operation of the Wettzell Geodetic Observatory, and he plays an active role in the Bavarian Academy of Sciences as Secretary General of the Project Geodesy.