The People behind GEOHUM

Head

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stefan Lang
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. MSc. Zahra Dabiri
+43 (0) 662 / 8044-7571
Zahra.Dabiri@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: leading WP ‘Radar analysis’ within RA I

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

Yunya Gao, MSc
+43 (0) 688 / 6433-0036
yunya.gao@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: working on Hybrid AI system within RA I, mainly focusing on semantic segmentation models for dwelling extraction

Getachew Workineh Gella, MSc
+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.

Linda Petutschnig, MSc

linda.petutschnig@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: Co-lead of RA II ConSense, lead of the WPs ‘Geospatial data assimilation toolbox’ and ‘Malaria mapping’

Sophia Klaußner, MSc

emiliasophia.klaussner@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: PhD student in RA II ConSense

Elena Nafieva, MSc

elena.nafieva@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: involved in RA I Img2Info, WP ‘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)

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.’); involved in RA II ConSense, WP ‘Geospatial data assimilation toolbox’ and ‘Settlement / Urban structure analysis’

Polina Lemenkova, MSc
polina.lemenkova@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: involved in RA II ConSense, WP ‘Geospatial data assimilation toolbox’ and ‘Settlement / Urban structure analysis’

Mag. Barbara Riedler, MSc

barbara.riedler@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: research on geospatial data assimilation and the application of these methods in the field of settlement/urban structure and population estimation

Interns and other temporary researchers

Lisah Ligono, BSc
lisah.ligono@stud.sbg.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: CDG funded internship, involved in RA I Img2Info, mainly working on flood mapping

Martin Dautriche, BSc
s1093355@stud.sbg.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: internship, involved in RA I Img2Info, mainly working on contrast learning for buildings

Administration

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

Former Team members

Dr. Andreas Braun
+49-(0)7071-29-78940
an.braun@uni-tuebingen.de

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

Dr. Stefan Kienberger

Senior researcher
stefan.kienberger@plus.ac.at

Role in GEOHUM: PI of RA II ConSense

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.

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'