People
Steering Committee
Centre Director
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Rasmus Fensholt is PI at TreeSense and professor in Geography with specialities within remote sensing; Earth observation; global change studies; land system science; climate change; primary productivity monitoring; carbon stocks; forest degradation; plant water stress; land degradation; land surface phenology. Rasmus has successfully built a world-renowned research lab within remote sensing of vegetation resources bridging all four research themes. He is connected to Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management. Contact: rf@ign.ku.dk |
Centre Administrator
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Andreas Egelund Christensen is PhD in Geography and centre administrator. He is connected to Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management. Contact: ec@ign.ku.dk |
Lead Researchers
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Laura Vang Rasmussen is Co-PI at TreeSense and associate professor (promotion programme) in Geography with specialities within land use changes, their human and environmental drivers, and the outcomes of these land use changes. She is connected to Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management. Contact: lr@ign.ku.dk |
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Martin Stefan Brandt is Co-PI at TreeSense and associate professor in Geography with specialities within land, environment and society. He is connected to Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management. Contact: mabr@ign.ku.dk |
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Christian Igel is Co-PI at TreeSense and professor in machine learning. He is connected to Department of Computer Science. Contact: igel@di.ku.dk |
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Ankit Kariyaa is Co-PI at TreeSense and assistant professor (tenure track) in machine learning. He is connected to Department of Computer Science. Contact: kariryaa@di.ku.dk |
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Philippe Ciais is Co-PI at TreeSense and associate director at Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (France). Contact: philippe.ciais@lsce.ipsl.fr |
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Josep Peñuelas Reixach is Co-PI at TreeSense and senior researcer at CREAF (Spain) Contact: josep.penuelas@creaf.cat |
TreeSense Resarchers
Early Career Researchers (Postdocs, PhD Fellows and Assistant Professors)
- Ask Holm Carlsen, PhD Fellow
- Daniel Ortiz Conzalo, Assistant Professor
- Dimitri Gominski, Postdoc
- Francois Jérome Ritter, Postdoc
- Gyula Mate Kovács, Postdoc
- Ke Huang, Postdoc
- Kristoffer Ansbak Petersen, PhD Fellow
- Kristoffer Stensbo-Smidt, Postdoc
- Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Postdoc
- Max Friederann Gaber, PhD Fellow
- Rene Arum Rafael Lee, PhD Fellow
- Shengping Ding, Enrolled PhD Student
- Siyu Liu, Postdoc
- Sizhou Li, Postdoc
- Tingting Lu, Enrolled PhD Student
- Xiaoye Tong, Assisatant Professor
- Yan Cheng, Postdoc
- Paul Senty, Guest Researcher
Collaborative Researchers
- Christin Abel, Assistant Professor, IGN, UCPH
- Stéphanie Horion, Assistant Professor, IGN, UCPH
- Nico Lang, Postdoc, Assistant Professor, DIKU, UCPH
- Ole Mertz, Professor, IGN, UCPH
- Compton Tucker, Visiting Scientist, NASA, GSFC, USA
Affiliated Researchers
- Alexander Prischepov, Associate Professor
- Martin Rudbeck Jepsen, Associate Professor
- Thilde Bech Bruun, Associate Professor
- Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín, Guest Researcher
- Bo Elberling, Professor
- Torsten Bondo, Guest Researcher
Advisory Board
Professor Matthew C. Hansen
Department of Geographical Sciences
University of Maryland
Professor, Dr. Patrick Hostert
Geography Department
Humboldt University, Berlin
Professor Niall Hanan
Plant and Environmental Sciences Department
New Mexico State University
PhD Agnès Bégué
French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development
Professor, Dr. Markus Reichstein
Biogeochemical Integration Department at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry