{"id":303,"date":"2018-03-09T10:17:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T09:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/?page_id=303"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:32:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:32:55","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the &#8220;team&#8221; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/sandipanweb.wordpress.com\/2017\/10\/24\/some-computational-photography-image-quilting-texture-synthesis-with-dynamic-programming-and-texture-transfer-in-python\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this very interesting tutorial<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"406\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/files\/2020\/12\/quilt_q9-1-edited.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-865\" style=\"width:406px;height:439px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/files\/2020\/12\/quilt_q9-1-edited.png 406w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/files\/2020\/12\/quilt_q9-1-edited-277x300.png 277w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/files\/2020\/12\/quilt_q9-1-edited-203x220.png 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>The GAIA lab is affiliated to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unil.ch\/central\/en\/home.html\">University of Lausanne<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unil.ch\/idyst\/en\/home.html\">Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics (IDYST)<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/team\/gregoire-mariethoz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gregoire Mariethoz<\/a> (Professor, UNIL) &#8211; Geopolis office 4875 (<a href=\"https:\/\/planete.unil.ch\/plan\/?local='GEO-4875'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">map<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/team\/marj-tonini\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marj Tonini<\/a> (Senior researcher, UNIL) &#8211; spatio-temporal dynamic of environmental processes.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/team\/said-obakrim\/\">Said Obakrim<\/a> (Postdoc, UNIL) &#8211; MPS, rainfall simulation, hydrology and hydrogeology &#8211; Geopolis office 3247 (<a href=\"https:\/\/planete.unil.ch\/plan\/?local='GEO-4419'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">map<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/team\/fatemeh-zakeri\/\">Fatemeh Zakeri<\/a>,\u00a0(PhD Candidate, UNIL) \u2013 geostatistical simulation of remote sensing imagery &#8211; Geopolis office 3247 (<a href=\"https:\/\/planete.unil.ch\/plan\/?local='GEO-3247'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">map<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/team\/pau-wiersma\/\">Pau Wiersma<\/a> (PhD Candidate, UNIL) \u2013 Hydrological modeling of snowy catchments &#8211; Geopolis office 3247 (<a href=\"https:\/\/planete.unil.ch\/plan\/?local='GEO-3247'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">map<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/team\/guanghui-hu\/\">Guanghui Hu<\/a> (PhD Candidate, UNIL) \u2013 Statistical downscaling of digital elevation models &#8211; Geopolis office 3321 (<a href=\"https:\/\/planete.unil.ch\/plan\/?local='GEO-3247'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">map<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/team\/naomie-kayitesi\/\">Naomie Kayitesi<\/a> (PhD Candidate, UNIL) \u2013 Land use and land cover changes and their impacts on hydrological processes &#8211; Geopolis office 3247 (<a href=\"https:\/\/planete.unil.ch\/plan\/?local='GEO-3247'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">map<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/team\/lucas-schmutz\/\">Lucas Schmutz<\/a> (PhD Candidate, UNIL) \u2013 Combination of multiple general circulation models &#8211; Geopolis office 3247 (<a href=\"https:\/\/planete.unil.ch\/plan\/?local='GEO-3247'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">map<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/team\/loic-gerber\/\">Lo\u00efc Gerber<\/a> (PhD Candidate, UNIL) \u2013 Hydrological modeling of large semiarid catchments &#8211; Geopolis office 3247 (<a href=\"https:\/\/planete.unil.ch\/plan\/?local='GEO-3247'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">map<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/team\/magali-egger\/\">Magali Egger<\/a> (PhD Candidate, UNIL) &#8211; Geopolis office 3247 (<a href=\"https:\/\/planete.unil.ch\/plan\/?local='GEO-3247'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">map<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/team\/alumni\/\">former group members<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the &#8220;team&#8221; 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/team\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Team&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001689,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-303","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}