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: ec@ign.ku.dk 

Lead Researchers

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 

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 

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.

Contact: kariryaa@di.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 

Josep Peñuelas

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

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