Young Authors Award 2017 Citation for Minghui Xu

摘要

The IAG Young Authors Award 2017 is presented to Dr. Ming-hui Xu for his paper The impacts of source structure on geodetic parameters demonstrated by the radio source 3C371. The work was published in the Journal of Geodesy, 2017, Volume 91, pp.767-781.The leading author, Dr. Minghui Xu, has focused on high-precision very long baseline interferomery (VLBI) studies for ten years. He started his Geodesy studies in Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) in 2009. In 2013, he got the German DAAD scholarship to join the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) VLBI group for his PhD. He defensed his doctoral thesis on Determining the acceleration of Solar System's Barycenter by VLBI at SHAO in 2015. He was awarded as a Mercator Fellow in Germany in 2017. Currently, he is the research fellow in Aalto University Metsahovi Observtory and is working on mitigating source structure effects on broadband VLBI (VGOS) observations in order to achieve the goal of VGOS, the mm accuracy of station positions on global scales.