Rate My Professor Benedikt Soja

Professor Benedikt Soja is Assistant Professor of Space Geodesy at ETH Zurich in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. He joined ETH Zurich in April 2020 following his appointment by the ETH Board in December 2019 as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Space Geodesy. Prior to this role, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. His research focuses on space geodesy, including the high-precision determination of terrestrial reference frames, quasar interferometry (VLBI), global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), satellite gravimetry, atmospheric effects, and the application of machine learning techniques.

Soja holds a PhD in Geodesy and Geoinformation from Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), completed with distinction. At ETH Zurich, he leads the Space Geodesy group within the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry. His work has contributed to understanding the impacts of climate change on Earth’s rotation and polar motion, with recent publications in Nature Geoscience and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Soja’s professional email address is soja@ethz.ch.