Current team
The EarthMapps at KU Leuven brings together a talented, enthusiastic team across Earth observation, environmental modelling, climate and biophysical models, model emulation, and geospatial AI.
| Name | Role | Topic | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stef Haesen | FWO Post-doc | MicroSCOPE – Microclimate Simulation and Carbon Outcomes using Probabilistic Emulation | KU Leuven project page |
| Titus Top | PhD | Graph Neural Networks for Ice Sheet Modeling and Sea Level Rise Projections | KU Leuven project page |
| Nelly Gaillard | PhD | CLimate-aware EO foundation models | - |
| Deniz Soysal | PhD | AI-based remote sensing for monitoring reforestation success in semi-arid regions | KU Leuven project page |
| Toon Lambrecht | PhD | Half a century of change - using declassified cold war imagery to study land cover change in the Sahel | KU Leuven project page |
| Reinout Vandenabeele | PhD | ECOGraph - a graph-based approach for Species Distribution Models | KU Leuven project page |
| Kato Vanpoucke | PhD | Improving pollinator habitat modeling by integrating remote sensing data into CNN-based species distribution models | KU Leuven project page |
| Sebastian Berghald | PhD | Antarctic Climate Causality - Unraveling links between the components of the system and their variability (ACCU) | KU Leuven project page |
| Enrrique Francisco Coritza Taquichiri | Co-supervised PhD | A warning system for extreme precipitation events in the Bolivian Andes | KU Leuven project page |
| Emiel Buffel | Co-supervised PhD | Geospatial Impact Evaluation - Measuring the contribution of reforestation on the provision of Forest Ecosystem Services | KU Leuven project page |
| Sofie Van Winckel | Co-supervised PhD | Spatio-temporal modeling of actual forest ecosystem services and their trade-offs | KU Leuven project page |
| Willem Goossens | Co-supervised PhD | The contribution of neophyte species to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning | KU Leuven project page |
| Jingyi Wang | Visiting PhD | Monitoring and modeling ecosystem dynamics using remote sensing and spatial analysis | Google Scholar |
| Zhiwen Yang | Visiting PhD | Antarctic ice-shelf basal melting through satellite altimetry, geodesy, and multi-source remote sensing | - |
| Jiahui Xu | Visiting PhD | Understanding and predicting snow cover dynamics in a warming climate through remote sensing and deep learning | Google Scholar |