Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - Geomatics

Status	Doctoral researcher
E-Mail	philippe.rufin@hu-berlin.de
Office location	Rudower Chaussee 16, Room 2'211
Phone	+49 (0)30 2093-6834
Fax	+49 (0)30 2093-6848
Postal address	Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany

About me

Geographer by training, with special interest in human-environment interactions on local to global scales. Curious about remote sensing & big data applications in the context of food production, water resources, and sustainable land management.

Currently working on my scholarship-funded PhD project, in which I try to shed some light on the effects of dam construction on land systems. Specifically, I´m looking into the implications irrigation dams have for agricultural land extent and use intensity. 

At the lab, I´m involved in teaching classes in statistics, geoinformation science, and advanced Earth observation. Stuff I like: #landuse, #rstats, #python, #datascience, #space, #machinelearning, #openscience. Follow @philrufin for updates.

 

Curriculum Vitae

09/2017 - 03/2019	Research Assistant, Geomatics Lab HU Berlin, Germany
06/2015 - ongoing	Doctoral Researcher, Geomatics Lab / IRI THESys HU Berlin, Germany.
05/2014 - 09/2015	Research Assistant, Geomatics Lab / IRI THESys HU Berlin, Germany
10/2013 - 11/2013	Guest Researcher National Institute for Space Research, Brazil
10/2011 - 05/2014	M.Sc. Physical Geography of Human-Environment Systems HU Berlin, Germany / Stockholms Universitet, Sweden
12/2011 - 04/2014	Student Collaborator, Land System Science Cluster HU Berlin, Germany
10/2007 - 10/2011	B.A. Geography & Social Sciences HU Berlin, Germany / Aix-Marseille Université, France

 

Publications

Rufin, P., Frantz, D., Ernst, S., Rabe, A., Griffiths, P., Özdoğan, M., & Hostert, P. (2019). Mapping Cropping Practices on a National Scale Using Intra-Annual Landsat Time Series Binning. Remote Sensing, 11, 232. more...

Rufin, P., Gollnow, F., Müller, D., & Hostert, P. (2019). Synthesizing dam-induced land system change. AMBIO, 92, 90. more...

Rufin, P., Levers, C., Baumann, M., Jägermeyr, J., Krueger, T., Kuemmerle, T., & Hostert, P. (2018). Global-scale patterns and determinants of cropping frequency in irrigation dam command areas. Global Environmental Change, 50. more...

Rufin, P., Müller, H., Pflugmacher, D., & Hostert, P. (2015). Land use intensity trajectories on Amazonian pastures derived from Landsat time series. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 41. more...

Müller, H., Rufin, P., Griffiths, P., Barros Siqueira, Auberto José, & Hostert, P. (2015). Mining dense Landsat time series for separating cropland and pasture in a heterogeneous Brazilian savanna landscape. Remote Sensing of Environment, 156, 490–499. more...