May 1, 2026
Marc Rußwurm will be on parental leave from (approximately) May 1st until September 2026. Responses will be delayed.
Research Group
Jun. Prof. & Emmy Noether Group Leader (from 09/2026)
ELLIS Ph.D.
External PhD
External PhD
Harkaitz Goyena Baroja
Visiting postdoctoral scholar from the Public University of Navarre (Spain)
News
Mar 26, 2026
An Emmy Noether Group in Methods of AI proposal titled “Earth Embeddings: Learning Concept Maps in Neural Nets” has been funded by DFG. Hence, from September 2026 onwards, this group will be an Emmy Noether Group with Marc Rußwurm appointed as Junior Professor. See the University of Bonn press release for more details.
Feb 1, 2026
A paper headed by Arjun Rao with Konstantin Klemmer and Esther Rolf, “Measuring the Intrinsic Dimension of Earth Representations”, has been accepted at ICLR 2026.
Recent Papers
- Exploring Transferability Of Plastic-Water Hyacinth Interaction And Detection In Rivers — SRRN (Preprint, 2026)
- Exploring Plastic Detectability On Riverbanks Using Remote Sensing — SRRN (Preprint, 2026)
- Localized, High-Resolution Geographic Representations With Slepian Functions — arXiv (Preprint) (2026)
- Sentinel-2 Reveals Prolonged And Localized Extreme Vegetation Anomalies Across Europe — SSRN Electronic Journal (2026)
- NaT-ReX: Naturalness Assessment With Transformer-Based Reliable Explainability — Proceedings of the DAGM/GCPR Conference (2026)