People

Steering Committee

Centre Director

Rasmus Fensholt

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

Andreas Egelund Christensen

Andreas Egelund Christensen is PhD in Geography and centre administrator. He is connected to Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management.

Contact: aec@ign.ku.dk 

Lead Researchers

Ankit Kariyaa

Ankit Kariyaa is Co-PI at TreeSense and assistant professor (tenure track) in machine learning. ’He is connected to Department of Computer Science and Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management.

Contact: kariryaa@di.ku.dk 

Christian Igel

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 

Josep Peñuelas

Josep Peñuelas Reixach is Co-PI at TreeSense and senior researcer at CREAF (Spain)

Contact: josep.penuelas@creaf.cat 

Laura Vang Rasmussen

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 

Martin Stefan Brandt

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 

Philippe Ciais

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 


TreeSense Resarchers

Early Career Researchers (Postdocs, PhD Fellows and Assistant Professors)


Collaborative Researchers


Affiliated Researchers


Advisory Board

PhD Agnès Bégué
French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development

Professor, Dr. Markus Reichstein
Biogeochemical Integration Department at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry

Professor Matthew C. Hansen
Department of Geographical Sciences
University of Maryland

Professor Niall Hanan
Plant and Environmental Sciences Department
New Mexico State University 

Professor, Dr. Patrick Hostert
Geography Department
Humboldt University, Berlin