The People behind GEOHUM

Head

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stefan Lang
Paris Lodron University of Salzburg
Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS
Schillerstraße 30
5020 Salzburg
  +43 (0) 662 / 8044-7562
  stefan.lang@plus.ac.at

Senior Researcher

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Barbara Schernthanner-Hofer [currently on maternity leave]

 barbara.schernthanner-hofer@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: PI of RA III Img2Info

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dirk Tiede
  +43 (0) 662 / 8044-7565
 dirk.tiede@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: PI of RA I Img2Info

Dr. Lorenz Wendt

  +43 (0) 662 / 8044-7533
  lorenz.wendt@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: Co-lead of RA I Img2Info, lead of WP ‘Photogrammetry’ in RA I and WP ‘Demographic mapping’ in RA II ConSense

Dr. Getachew Workineh Gella
+43(0)662 / 8044-7544
getachewworkineh.gella@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: working on WP ‘Hybrid AI system’ within RA I (focus on grey data for object detection) and WP ‘Legal and ethical issues’ (geoprivacy aware communication of results and sharing of geospatial data) within RA III.

Researcher

Mag. Petra Füreder
+43 (0) 662 / 8044-7515
petra.fuereder@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: support of overall management, lead of WP ‘Geovisualisation and advanced cartography’ in RA III Info2Comm

Sophia Klaußner, MSc

emiliasophia.klaussner@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: PhD student in RA II ConSense, focus on understanding bias in population and land cover data sets

Leizel Gervacio De La Cruz, MSc

leizelgervacio.delacruz@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: PhD student in RA II ConSense, focus on multi-hazard indicator assessment

Bruno Menini Matosak, MSc

bruno.menini-matosak@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: PhD student in RA I Img2Info, focus on deep learning for flood mapping and dwelling extraction

Kathrin Lunzner, MA, BA
  kathrin.lunzner@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: currently writing Master thesis within RA I Img2Info (title ‘Testing preconditions for spatial transferability of deep learning models for dwelling extraction in refugee and IDP camps.’)

Barbara Riedler, MSc

  barbara.riedler@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: Co-lead of RA II ConSense, lead of  WP ‘Geospatial data assimilation toolbox’,  focus on data quality, integration and geovisualisation

Ananda Krishnan
  ananda.krishnan@stud.plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: currently writing Master thesis within RA I Img2Info

Interns and other temporary researchers

  • Sumudu Galpayage: intern (Oct 2025 – Jan 2026)

Administration

Mag. Petra Jenewein-Bogensperger
  +43 (0) 662 / 8044-7566
  petra.jenewein@plus.ac.at

Former Team members

Dr. MSc. Zahra Dabiri
Role in GEOHUM: academic coordinator from 04-09 2024; WP leader of 'Radar analysis' within RA I

Yunya Gao, MSc
Role in GEOHUM: worked on Hybrid AI system within RA I, mainly focused on semantic segmentation models for dwelling extraction

Linda Petutschnig, MSc
Role in GEOHUM: Co-lead of RA II ConSense,  lead of the WPs 'Geospatial data assimilation toolbox' and 'Malaria mapping'

Dr. Andreas Braun
Role in GEOHUM: work package leader of Radar analysis within RA I until the end of 2021

Dr. Stefan Kienberger
Role in GEOHUM: PI of RA II ConSense

Elena Nafieva, MSc
Role in GEOHUM: worked on Radar analysis (evaluation of Sentinel-1 data in the context of urban floods; SAR-based damage assessment after the earthquake in Turkey/Syria Feb 2023)

MSc. Niklas Jaggy
Role in GEOHUM: worked on Radar analysis within RA I, where he also wrote his Master thesis 'Despeckling of SAR images for improving analysis results'

Andreas Schlagbauer, MSc
Role in GEOHUM: involved in RA II ConSense, WP 'Geospatial data assimilation toolbox' and 'Settlement / Urban structure analysis'

Polina Lemenkova, MSc
Role in GEOHUM: supported data management; worked on environmental dynamics in Africa.

B.S. Christina Zorenböhmer
Role in GEOHUM: wrote her master thesis in the context of GEOHUM investigating the implication of grey data on deep learning-based dwelling extraction.

Interns
  • Kshitij Raj Sharma: CDG funded internship, explored the design of a platform for storing, hosting, and cataloguing neural networks
  • Maria Anna Fedyszyn: exploration of WorldPop data
  • Demet Akbaba: Earth observation-based building damage assessment
  • Krishnan Ananda: Deep learning-based flood mapping: investigating the role of target decomposed polarimetric features
  • Jakir Hossain: Flood mapping
  • Bukhari Syeda Noor Ul Saba: Open population and settlement layersv evaluation
  • Reid Taremwa, BSc: CDG funded internship, worked on comparison of global land cover products and create land cover products
  • Martin Dautriche, BSc: worked on contrast learning for buildings
  • Lisah Ligono, BSc: CDG funded internship, worked on flood mapping
  • Vanessa Streifeneder
  • Niklas Jaggy
  • Ruhi Begum
  • Hannes Seigmann
  • Sofía Delgado Balaguera (CDG funded internship)