Research Group

Jun. Prof. & Emmy Noether Group Leader

Marc Rußwurm
Group Leader
Marc Rußwurm
Jun. Prof. & Emmy Noether Group Leader (from 09/2026)
Previous Positions
  • Jun. Research Group Leader (02/2026-09/2026)
  • Assistant Professor Wageningen (2023-02/2026)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher EPFL (2021-2023)
  • Doctoral Researcher TUM (2018 - 2021)
Team

Doctoral Candidates (external)

Claire Robin
Claire Robin
joint PhD from Max Plank Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena
Vegetation Forecating and Extreme Event Detection
Vishal Nedungadi
Vishal Nedungadi
External PhD Candidate at Wageningen University, Netherlands
Distribution Shifts in Agriculture
Youchul Jeong
Youchul Jeong
External PhD at University of the Aegean, Greece
Marine Litter Detection from UAV imagery
Visitors

Visiting Scholars

Harkaitz Goyena Baroja
Harkaitz Goyena Baroja
Visiting postdoctoral scholar from the Public University of Navarre (Spain)
Network

Collaborators

Paolo Dal Lago ( 2025 -ongoing , Time Series Classification and Phenology Prediction ) • Jürgen Kusche ( 2025 -ongoing , Location Encoders for Gravity Representations ) • Tim van Emmerick ( 2023 -2026 , Riverine Marine Litter ) • Lola Ugarte and Carlos Arruti ( 2023 -ongoing , Geospatial Embeddings in Spain for Environmental Analyses and Disease Prediction ) • Ioannis Athanasiadis ( 2023 -ongoing , Machine Learning for Agriculture ) • Konstantin Klemmer ( 2022 -ongoing , Joint works: SatCLIP, SirenSH ) • Esther Rolf ( 2022 -ongoing , Joint works: SatCLIP, SirenSH ) • Ribana Roscher ( 2021 -2024 , Data-centric and few-shot meta-learning ) • Devis Tuia ( 2021 -2024 , Environmental Machine Learning )
Alumni

Former MSc Students

Tessa Ooms (2026 ) • Naut Engelsma (2026 ) • Jhon Restrepo (2026 ) • Britt Thuis (2026 ) • Alexandros Timoleon (2026 ) • Wessel Eshuis (2025 , MSc Thesis ) • Takayuki Ishikawa (2025 , MSc Thesis ) • Milou Maathuis (2025 , MSc Thesis ) • Levien van Krieken (2025 , MSc Thesis ) • Giel Hagenbeek (2025 ) • Gabriele Tijunaityte (2025 , MSc Thesis , Folkert Hellinga MSc Award) • Stijn Peeters (2024 ) • Ryan Amaudruz (2024 ) • Joost van Dalen (2024 )