
Gregor Steinbrügge
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Geophysics
Bio
I am a planetary scientist and my research focuses on geophysics, geodesy and scientific instrumentation for future space missions. I received my M.S. degree in physics from the Free University Berlin, Germany in 2013 and I completed my Ph.D. at the Institute for Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, TU Berlin, Germany in 2018. My thesis on tidal interactions across the Solar System was completed in collaboration with the Institute of Planetary Research at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). I am currently a Postdoc at the Department of Geophysics at Stanford University. I am a Co-Investigater of the REASON (Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface) instrument on the Europa Clipper mission. I am further affiliated with the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter (BELA) on the BepiColombo mission, and the Ganymede Laser Altimeter (GALA) on the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE). My current research is on tidal interactions of bodies in our Solar System, ice geophysics, as well as radar and laser geodesy.
Professional Education
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M.S., Free University Berlin, Physics (2013)
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Ph.D., Technical University Berlin, Geodesy (2018)
All Publications
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Determination of the lunar body tide from global laser altimetry data
JOURNAL OF GEODESY
2021; 95 (1)
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00190-020-01455-8
View details for Web of Science ID 000603033600003
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Challenges on Mercury's Interior Structure Posed by the New Measurements of its Obliquity and Tides
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
2021; 48 (3)
View details for DOI 10.1029/2020GL089895
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The Salty Secrets of Icy Ocean Worlds (comment)
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS
2021; 126 (1)
View details for DOI 10.1029/2020JE006736
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Processing of laser altimeter time-of-flight measurements to geodetic coordinates
JOURNAL OF GEODESY
2021; 95 (2)
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00190-020-01467-4
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Brine Migration and Impact-Induced Cryovolcanism on Europa
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
2020; 47 (21)
View details for DOI 10.1029/2020GL090797
View details for Web of Science ID 000593976300044
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The surface roughness of Europa derived from Galileo stereo images
ICARUS
2020; 343
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.icarus.2020.113669
View details for Web of Science ID 000527007000006
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Prospects for measuring Mercury's tidal Love number h(2) with the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
2020; 633
View details for DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/201936517
View details for Web of Science ID 000507463000001
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Martian roughness analogues of Europan terrains for radar sounder investigations
ICARUS
2020
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114197
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Geometric determination of ionospheric total electron content from dual frequency radar sounding measurements
PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE
2019; 178
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.pss.2019.07.010
View details for Web of Science ID 000493220200005
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The Ganymede laser altimeter (GALA): key objectives, instrument design, and performance
CEAS SPACE JOURNAL
2019; 11 (4): 381–90
View details for DOI 10.1007/s12567-019-00282-8
View details for Web of Science ID 000491773200001
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Measuring Ganymede's Librations with Laser Altimetry
GEOSCIENCES
2019; 9 (7)
View details for DOI 10.3390/geosciences9070320
View details for Web of Science ID 000479005300042
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Performance Model Simulation of Ganymede Laser Altimeter (GALA) for the JUICE Mission
Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Aerospace Technology Japan
2019; 17: 150-154
View details for DOI 10.2322/tastj.17.150
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Viscoelastic Tides of Mercury and the Determination of its Inner Core Size
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS
2018; 123 (10): 2760–72
View details for DOI 10.1029/2018JE005569
View details for Web of Science ID 000450621300015
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The performance of the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter (BELA) prior launch and prospects for Mercury orbit operations
PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE
2018; 159: 84–92
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.pss.2018.04.017
View details for Web of Science ID 000436208500008
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The reference frames of Mercury after the MESSENGER mission
JOURNAL OF GEODESY
2018; 92 (9): 949–61
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00190-018-1157-8
View details for Web of Science ID 000442573200002
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Science Objectives of the Ganymede Laser Altimeter (GALA) for the JUICE Mission
Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Aerospace Technology Japan
2018; 17: 234-243
View details for DOI 10.2322/tastj.17.234
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Assessing the potential for measuring Europa's tidal Love number h2 using radar sounder and topographic imager data
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2017
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.11.028
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Constraints on dissipation in the deep interiors of Ganymede and, Europa from tidal phase-lags
Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy
2017; 126: 131-144
View details for DOI 10.1007/s10569- 016-9721-0
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Measuring tidal deformations by laser altimetry. A performance model for the Ganymede Laser Altimeter
PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE
2015; 117: 184–91
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.pss.2015.06.013
View details for Web of Science ID 000364257400017