Junior Research Group Leader

Marc Rußwurm
Marc Rußwurm
Group Leader
Former: Assistant Professor Wageningen (2023-Feb 2026); Postdoctoral Researcher EPFL (2021-2023); Doctoral Researcher TUM (2018 - 2021)

Doctoral Candidates (external)

Claire Robin
Claire Robin
External 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

Current MSc Students (Wageningen)

  • Jhon Restrepo Jhon Restrepo Exploring Implicit Neural Representations for Modelling the Earth's Gravitational Field
  • Tessa Ooms Tessa Ooms CoastalSatCLIP - A Slepian Approach to Geographic Location Encoding
  • Naut Engelsma Naut Engelsma Mapping Remote Sensing Tasks to Evaluate Foundation Models
  • Britt Thuis Britt Thuis Is it plastic or just rocks?: Riverine plastic debris detection after a high discharge event with high resolution and multi-spectral satellite imagery
  • Alexandros Timoleon Alexandros Timoleon What pattern makes a place unique? Training Neural Networks to play Geoguesser with Satellite images

Former MSc Students

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 )