I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation. My research and teaching focus on land cover monitoring and the estimation of vegetation biophysical parameters using active remote sensing across multiple scales, particularly in forest and agricultural ecosystems. I develop land cover classifications and retrieval algorithms for vegetation height, structure, and aboveground biomass using interferometric and polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and laser scanning data from both spaceborne and airborne platforms. Additionally, I am interested in upscaling quantitative vegetation metrics, such as height and biomass, from field measurements to remote sensing data. The used methodologies encompass empirical and physically-based modeling, as well as data science techniques. The ultimate goal of biophysical parameter retrieval is to enhance our understanding of ecological functions, ecosystem services, and the resilience of forests and agricultural systems, as well as their changes in transformation processes (e.g., from forest to cropland).
Before joining the University of Twente in 2020, I obtained a BSc, a MSc and a PhD from the University of Jena, Germany. My PhD was on the use of interferometric SAR data for land cover monitoring and aboveground biomass retrieval, and was completed in 2015. Between 2016 and 2018, I was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Mission Science Division of the European Space Agency. In addition, I was a Scientist at the University of Göttingen between 2018 and 2020.
Expertise
Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Datum
- Synthetic Aperture Radar
- Forest
- TanDEM-X
- Height
- Aboveground Biomass
- Canopy
- Model
Organisations
Publications
2025
2024
Research profiles
Courses academic year 2024/2025
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Courses academic year 2023/2024
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