On the “team” page of many academic websites, it is customary to find a photo with the PI of the research group surrounded by many supervised researchers, often in a relaxed outdoor setting. We believe that such a representation conveys an artificial image of a large group being a goal in itself, indirectly encouraging an attitude of seeking funding for its own sake. Instead, we prefer to show an image of a truly artificial crowd of PhD students that were synthetically generated with the Image Quilting algorithm (from this very interesting tutorial).
![](https://wp.unil.ch/gaia/files/2020/12/quilt_q9-1-edited.png)
The GAIA lab is affiliated to the University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics (IDYST)
- Gregoire Mariethoz (Professor, UNIL) – Geopolis office 4875 (map).
- Marj Tonini (Senior researcher, UNIL) – spatio-temporal dynamic of environmental processes.
- Fabio Oriani (Postdoc, UNIL) – MPS, rainfall simulation, hydrology and hydrogeology – Geopolis office 4419 (map).
- Fatemeh Zakeri, (PhD Candidate, UNIL) – geostatistical simulation of remote sensing imagery – Geopolis office 3247 (map).
- Pau Wiersma (PhD Candidate, UNIL) – Hydrological modeling of snowy catchments – Geopolis office 3247 (map).
- Guanghui Hu (PhD Candidate, UNIL) – Statistical downscaling of digital elevation models – Geopolis office 3321 (map).
- Naomie Kayitesi (PhD Candidate, UNIL) – Land use and land cover changes and their impacts on hydrological processes – Geopolis office 3247 (map).
- Lucas Schmutz (PhD Candidate, UNIL) – Combination of multiple general circulation models – Geopolis office 3247 (map).
- Loïc Gerber (PhD Candidate, UNIL) – Hydrological modeling of large semiarid catchments – Geopolis office 3247 (map).
And the former group members.