Chris Rizos

Head, School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems, University of New South Wales

Sydney, Australia

Chris Rizos heads the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He founded the university’s Satellite Navigation and Positioning (SNAP) Lab, Australia’s premier academic GNSS and wireless positioning research group.

Rizos has been researching the technology and high precision applications of GPS since 1985. He has published over 200 papers, and is the author or coauthor of several books on GPS and positioning technologies.

Rizos is a fellow of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), chair of the IAG’s Commission 4 “Positioning and Applications.” He is a member of the executive committee of the ION Satellite Division, the governing board of the International GNSS Service, and on the Australian GNSS Coordination Committee.

He graduated from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), obtaining a bachelor of surveying and a Ph.D. in satellite geodesy.