Alumni

Former group members

• Guanghui Hu (former PhD Candidate, UNIL / Zhejiang Normal University)  – DEM downscaling with multiple-point geostatistics.

• Luiz Gustavo Rasera (former PhD Candidate, UNIL) – geostatistical topography downscaling and data fusion.
  Now Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of British Columbia.
• Stylianos Hadjipetrou (Cyprus University of Technology) – geostatistical modeling of wind fields based on remote senging.
  Now researcher at the Cyprus University of Technology.
• Mathieu Gravey (former PhD Candidate, UNIL) – Multiple point geostatistical approaches
  to spectrally enhance satellite imagery.Now Group Leader at ÖAW-IGF, Austrian Academy of Sciences – Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research – https://www.mgravey.com/
• Inigo Irarrazaval (former PhD Candidate, UNIL) – Subglacial channels modeling with inverse methods.
  Now Researcher at Centro de Investigacion en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia (CIEP), Chile.
• Moctar Dembele (former PhD Candidate, UNIL, main supervisor: Bettina Schaefli) – Hydrology and remote sensing for water accounting.
  Now postdoctoral researcher at International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Ghana.
• Lionel Benoit (former PhD Candidate, UNIL) – Rainfall measurement and stochastic space-time simulation/interpolation [link to thesis].
  Now research scientist at INRAE-BioSP – https://biosp.mathnum.inrae.fr/homepage-lionel-benoit

• James Thornton (former PhD Candidate, University of Neuchatel, main supervisor: Philip Brunner, part of the Integralp project) – Hydrological and hydrogeological modeling in alpine environments.
  Now Research Scientist th the Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern.

• Elisa Giaccone (PhD Candidate, UNIL, main supervisor: Christophe Lambiel, part of the Integralp project) – Interactions geomorphology/plants/permafrost in alpine environments [link to thesis].
  Now Technical Officer at the Piemonte Directorate for Environment, Energy and Territory – https://it.linkedin.com/in/elisa-giaccone-54278b85

• Raphael Nussbaumer (former PhD Candidate, UNIL, main supervisor: Klaus Holliger) – Integrating complex and diverse spatial datasets: Applications to hydrogeophysics [link to thesis].
  Now postdoc at the Swiss Ornithological Institute.

• Qiyu Chen (former PhD Candidate, UNIL / China University of Geosciences) – Geological stochastic modeling method for the Quaternary sedimentary system 3D geological stochastic modeling method for Quaternary sedimentary systems.
  Now Associate Professor at the China University of Geosciences, Wuhan

• Juan Carlos Castilla (former PhD Candidate, UNSW Australia) – Agents-based models, uncertainty in hydrogeological models, climate change.
  Now Faculty member at University of Technology Sydney.

• Xue Li (former PhD Candidate, UNIL / University of Science and Technology of China) – Development of geostatistical simulation algorithms using graph cuts.
  Now research fellow at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics.

• Ehsan Baninajar (former PhD Candidate, UNIL / Sahand University of Technology, Iran) – Automatic parameterization of MPS methods.
  Now Data Analytics Development Officer at SRK Exploration Services.

• Kashif Mahmud (former Former PhD student at UNSW Australia) – Multiple-point geostatistics, texture synthesis, upscaling, multivariate analysis, karst modeling  [link to thesis].
  Now research scientist at Indiana University.

• Sanjeev Jha (former postdoc at UNSW Australia) – Downscaling of hydrological data, 3D geological modeling under structural heterogeneity and variable connectivity, river sedimentary processes and bathymetry.
  Now Assistant Professor with IIT Bhopal, India.