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Jaroslav Klokocník (*1948 in Prague) is an emeritus professor and research worker in the field of space geodesy, satellite dynamics and geodynamics. He has published over 220 research papers and is the author or co-author of five books and of three class texts. He studied geodesy and cartography at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. He obtained his master's degree in 1971. Since 1972 we works at the Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ondrejov Observatory, where he defended PhD for astronomy in 1979 and DrSc for astronomy in 1996. Meantime he was also a lecturer at the Faculty (advanced course on satellite geodesy), where he received titles Associate Professor in 2000 and then in 2009 Professor of Theoretical and Space Geodesy. He was a consultant of several postdocs and a member of the Faculty's committee for postdoctoral studies.



His specialisation involves the study of orbital resonances of artificial satellites and studies of the Earth's gravity field, satellite altimetry and gradiometry, static as well as variable gravity field. Now, he is interested mostly in geo-applications of the recent Earth's gravitational field models. He has been cooperating for a long time with several institutes in Germany, USA, Egypt, and elsewhere. He has also been interested in archaeoastronomy; he accomplished series of field measurements in Mesoamerica, Peru and China between 1997 and 2011.

Jan Kostelecký (*1946 in Prague) is a senior researcher in geodesy, space geodesy and geodynamics. He has published over 260 research articles and several books on a broad array in space geodesy. He studied geodesy and cartography at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, he obtained his master's degree in 1969. Then in 1971 he started to work as a researcher at the Research Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, Czech Republic, in this institute he has been working to this day. He