How Satellites Revolutionised How We Navigate, and Tell the Time, by Cillian O'Driscoll - 2021-10-11
Channel: Cork Astronomy Club
Date: 2022-02-20

Dr Cillian O'Driscoll completed his PhD studies in Electrical Engineering in University College, Cork (UCC), in 2006 on the subject of performance analysis in the acquisition of weak Global Positioning System (GPS) signals. From 2007 to 2010 he was a senior research engineer in the Position, Location and Navigation (PLAN) group at the University of Calgary in Canada, where he researched high sensitivity Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver design, integration of GNSS and Inertial sensors, and the development of real-time software GNSS receivers.

From 2011 to 2013 he was with the European Commission (EC), first as a researcher at the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, then as a Policy Officer with the European Satellite Navigation Programmes Directorate in Brussels. He returned to UCC in January 2014 to take up a position as a research support officer in the Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT) centre (Source: http://www.nbrg.ie/Newsletter/knb026bedbx)

Since 2017 Cillian has worked as an independent GNSS consultant, based in Cork, Ireland.

In this public Lockdown Lecture to Cork Astronomy Club, given via Zoom on 11 Oct 2021, Cillian outlines how satellites have changed the way we navigate the globe. He draws on his work with the European Commission and European Space Agency (ESA) on Europe's own global satellite navigation system, the Galileo programme.