Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - Earth Observation Lab

Lab Alumni

 

left 2024

Katja Kowalski

Post Doc at TUM (Technische Universität München) School of Life Sciences, Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management, Germany since March 2024,

Katja has been a PhD student at the Lab conducting her research within the GreenGrass project. GreenGrass aimed to develop a management system that balances economic requirements, the provision of ecosystem services and consumer needs.

published Mar. 2024


 

left 2022

María Piquer-Rodríguez

Jun-Prof. on Human-Environment Geography at Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Geographical Sciences, since March. 2022

Maria has been a PostDoc from 2019-2021 at the Lab conducting research in a Geo.X joint project on Food for Justice focusing on territorial divergences of trans-national eco-regions in South America and the socio-economic factors that may explain differences in their human-natural systems.

published Mar. 2022

 

Franz Schug

PostDoc, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) SILVIS LAb since Jan. 2022

Franz has been a Doctoral researcher in the Earth Observation Lab and defenced his PhD in November 2021. His research focused in using remote sensing to map and quantify anthropogenic material stock patterns in the broad context of social sustainability and transformation research. He was involved in the MAT_STOCKS project.

published Jan. 2022


 

left 2021

Sam Cooper

Sam has been a Doctoral researcher in the Earth Observation Lab from 2016 till 2021. His research focused on quantitative land cover mapping and vegetation assessment using simulated hyperspectral EnMAP imagery and machine learning, while investigating potential synergies between data sources with varying spectral and temporal dimensionality. He was connected to the EnMap Core Science team Pahse III "Monitoring Vegetation under Global Change".

published Sept. 2021

 

Mariane Souza Reis

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Divisão de Processamento de Imagens (DPI)(INPE), Brazil.

Mariane Souza Reis has been a visiting researcher in 2020/2021 with a focus on land use and land cover analysis methods.

published Feb. 2021

 

Dr. David Frantz

JProf., Universität Trier, Geoinformatics - Spatial Data Science.

David has been a PostDoc researcher in the Earth Observation Lab from 2017 till 2021. He focused on quantifying anthropogenic material stocks from S1/S2 data for various countries in the world in the MAT_STOCKS project, data analysis workflows in the FONDA CRC and on programming his open source software FORCE.

published Sep. 2021

 


 

left 2020

Dr. Stefan Süß

Stefan joined the lab in 2010. was Doctoral researcher at the Earth Observation Lab. He finished his PhD in June 2020 on "Mapping spatial and temporal transitions in shrublands with cover fractions from space".

published Aug. 2020

 

Dr. Andrey Dara

Andrey was Doctoral researcher at the Earth Observation Lab from 2015 on. He finished his PhD in 2019 and continued  to work on a project until February 2020.

He now works at the GAF AG Headquarters in Munich.

published Feb. 2020


 

left 2019

Dr. Hugo do Nascimento Bendini

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil.

Hugo do Nascimento Bendini has been a visiting researcher in 2017 and 2019 with a focus on mapping natural ecosystems and managed lands in the Brazilian Cerrado using dense image time series and phenological metrics.

published Okt. 2019

 

Dr. Cornelius Senf

Has studied his Bachelor and Master at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Was Doctoral researcher at the Geography Department and worked as Postdoctoral researcher at the IRI THESys from 2018 until 2019. Since 2020 he is PostDoc at the TUM School of Life Sciences, Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest Management at the Technical University of Munich. Contact cornelius.senf (at) tum.de

published Feb. 2020

 

Dr. Jan Knorn

Has started as student collaborator in 2004 and worked as PostDoc with a focus on teaching. Contact jan(add)knorn.org

published Sept. 2019

 

Prof. Dr. Sebastian van der Linden

University of Greifswald, Earth Observation and Geoinformation Science lab at the Institute of Geography and Geology.

Has been doctoral|postdoctoral researcher and senior scientist at the Geomatics Lab.

published Oct. 2019

 


 

left 2018

Michelle Cristina Araujo Picoli

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, INPE; Divisão de Procesamento de Imagens (DPI)

Has been guest scientist.

published Oct 2018


 

left 2017

Griffiths, Dr. Patrick

Joint Research Centre (Ispra), Directorate D, Food Security Unit. Project Officer, Remote sensing Expert.

Has been doctoral and postdoctoral researcher at the Geomatics Lab; project "Island2VAP".

published Nov 2017


 

left 2016

Müller, Dr. Hannes

Landesamt für Umwelt Baden Württemberg

Has been doctoral researcher at the Geomatics Lab; project " CarBioCial: Carbon sequestration, biodiversity and social structures in Southern Amazonia"

published Aug 2016


 

left 2015

de Brito, Alan

National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil

Has been at the Geomatics Lab; project "Carbon Pathways from Deforestation in the Brazilian Cerrado

published Oct 2015

 

Smaliychuk, Anatoliy

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

Has been guest scientist at the Geomatics Lab

published Oct 2015


 

left 2014

Yin, Dr. He

PhD from 2010-2014 ( Land Degradation Monitoring for Inner Mongolia)

since 2015: Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA.

published Oct 2015


 

left 2013

Margraf, Prof. Dr. Otti

Professor emeritus

Has been honorary professor from 2002 - 2013 at the Geomatics Lab; adjunct professorship, IfL, Leipzig

published Sep 2013

 

Main-Knorn, Dr. Magdalena

Leibniz-Zentrum für
Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e. V.

Has been doctoral researcher at the Geomatics Lab.

published Jan 2013


 

left 2012

Grübner, Dr. Oliver

Robert Koch Institut, Berlin

Has been doctoral researcher at the Geomatics Lab.

published Aug 2016

 

Geilenkeuser, Dipl.-Geogr. Tim

HafenCity Hamburg GmbH

published Jan 2013


 

left 2011

Kümmerle, Prof. Dr. Tobias

Professor for Conservation Biogeography, Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Has been doctoral researcher at the Geomatics Lab.

published Oct 2018


 

left 2009

Diermayer, Ellen

GIZ - Kambodscha,
Skype: ellen.diermayer

Has been doctoral researcher at the Geomatics Lab.

published Jan 2013


 

left 2008

 

Sonnenschein, Dr. Ruth

EURAC research, Institute for Applied Remote Sensing

Has been doctoral researcher at the Geomatics Lab.

published Jan 2013

 

Damm, Prof. Dr. Alexander

Professor of Remote Sensing of Water Systems

University of Zurich, Department of Geography

Has been doctoral researcher at the Geomatics Lab.

published Oct  2018