{"id":685,"date":"2020-05-15T09:27:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T07:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/?page_id=685"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:37:20","slug":"alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/research\/alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Former group members<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"nova-legacy-o-pack__item\">\n<div class=\"nova-legacy-e-text nova-legacy-e-text--size-xl nova-legacy-e-text--family-display nova-legacy-e-text--spacing-xxs nova-legacy-e-text--color-inherit fn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Guanghui-Hu-3\">Guanghui Hu<\/a> (former PhD Candidate, UNIL \/ <span class=\"org\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Zhejiang Normal University<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">)\u00a0 &#8211; DEM downscaling with multiple-point geostatistics.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/research\/alumni\/fabio-oriani\/\">Fabio Oriani<\/a> (former Postdoc, UNIL) \u2013 geostatistics, hydrometeorology, remote sensing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/team\/luiz-gustavo-rasera\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luiz Gustavo Rasera<\/a> (former PhD Candidate, UNIL) \u2013 geostatistical topography downscaling and data fusion.<br \/>\nNow Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of British Columbia.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/research\/alumni\/stylianos-hadjipetrou\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stylianos Hadjipetrou<\/a> (Cyprus University of Technology) \u2013 geostatistical modeling of wind fields based on remote senging.<br \/>\nNow researcher at the Cyprus University of Technology.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uu.nl\/staff\/MGravey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mathieu Gravey<\/a> (former PhD Candidate, UNIL) \u2013 <em>Multiple point geostatistical approaches<\/em><br \/>\n<em>to spectrally enhance satellite imagery<\/em>.Now Group Leader at \u00d6AW-IGF, Austrian Academy of Sciences &#8211; Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgravey.com\/\">https:\/\/www.mgravey.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciep.cl\/inigo-irarrazaval\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inigo Irarrazaval<\/a> (former PhD Candidate, UNIL) \u2013 <em>Subglacial channels modeling with inverse methods<\/em>.<br \/>\nNow Researcher at Centro de Investigacion en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia (CIEP), Chile.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwmi.cgiar.org\/about\/staff-list\/moctar-dembele\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moctar Dembele<\/a> (former PhD Candidate, UNIL, main supervisor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geography.unibe.ch\/about_us\/staff\/prof_dr_schaefli_bettina\/index_eng.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bettina Schaefli<\/a>) \u2013 Hydrology and remote sensing for water accounting.<br \/>\nNow postdoctoral researcher at International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Ghana.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/benoitlionel2.wixsite.com\/lionelbenoit\">Lionel Benoit <\/a>(former PhD Candidate, UNIL) \u2013 <em>Rainfall measurement and stochastic space-time simulation\/interpolation<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/serval.unil.ch\/en\/notice\/serval:BIB_6BA593C6F55E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link to thesis<\/a>].<br \/>\nNow research scientist at INRAE-BioSP &#8211; <a style=\"font-size: revert\" href=\"https:\/\/biosp.mathnum.inrae.fr\/homepage-lionel-benoit\">https:\/\/biosp.mathnum.inrae.fr\/homepage-lionel-benoit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/team\/james-thornton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Thornton<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> (former PhD Candidate, University of Neuchatel, main supervisor: <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unine.ch\/chyn\/home\/collaborateurstrices\/professeurs\/brunner-philip.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philip Brunner<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, part of the <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/integralp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Integralp<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> project) \u2013 <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Hydrological and hydrogeological modeling in alpine environments.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Now Research Scientist th the Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/gaia\/team\/elisa-giaccone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elisa Giaccone<\/a> (PhD Candidate, UNIL, main supervisor: <a href=\"https:\/\/unil.ch\/idyst\/home\/menuinst\/people\/official-team-table.html?url_params=-v_faculte=90-v_unite=273-v_personne=930097-mode=fiche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christophe Lambiel<\/a>, part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/integralp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Integralp<\/a> project) \u2013 <em>Interactions geomorphology\/plants\/permafrost in alpine environments\u00a0<\/em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/serval.unil.ch\/en\/notice\/serval:BIB_EF887773E615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link to thesis<\/a>].<br \/>\nNow Technical Officer at the Piemonte Directorate for Environment, Energy and Territory &#8211; <a style=\"font-size: revert\" href=\"https:\/\/it.linkedin.com\/in\/elisa-giaccone-54278b85\">https:\/\/it.linkedin.com\/in\/elisa-giaccone-54278b85.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Raphael_Nussbaumer\">Raphael Nussbaumer<\/a> (former PhD Candidate, UNIL, main supervisor: <a href=\"https:\/\/applicationspub.unil.ch\/interpub\/noauth\/php\/Un\/UnPers.php?PerNum=1037342&amp;LanCode=8\">Klaus Holliger<\/a>)\u00a0\u2013 <em>Integrating complex and diverse spatial datasets: Applications to hydrogeophysics<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/serval.unil.ch\/en\/notice\/serval:BIB_F2878A4FBD5C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link to thesis<\/a>]<em>.<\/em><br \/>\nNow postdoc at the Swiss Ornithological Institute.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Qiyu_Chen2\">Qiyu Chen<\/a> (former PhD Candidate, UNIL \/ China University of Geosciences) \u2013 <em>Geological stochastic modeling method for the Quaternary sedimentary system 3D geological stochastic modeling method for Quaternary sedimentary systems.<\/em><br \/>\nNow Associate Professor at the China University of Geosciences, Wuhan<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uts.edu.au\/staff\/juan.castilla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juan Carlos Castilla<\/a> (former PhD Candidate, UNSW Australia) \u2013 <em>Agents-based models, uncertainty in hydrogeological models, climate change.<\/em><br \/>\nNow Faculty member at University of Technology Sydney.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Xue_Li114\">Xue Li<\/a> (former PhD Candidate, UNIL \/ University of Science and Technology of China) \u2013 <em>Development of geostatistical simulation algorithms using graph cuts.<br \/>\n<\/em>Now research fellow at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/emps.exeter.ac.uk\/mathematics\/staff\/eb790\">Ehsan Baninajar<\/a> (former PhD Candidate, UNIL \/ Sahand University of Technology, Iran) \u2013 <em>Automatic parameterization of MPS methods.<\/em><br \/>\nNow Data Analytics Development Officer at SRK Exploration Services.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kashifmahmud.wixsite.com\/kashif-mahmud\">Kashif Mahmud<\/a> (former Former PhD student at UNSW Australia) \u2013 <em>Multiple-point geostatistics, texture synthesis, upscaling, multivariate analysis, karst modeling\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/unsworks.unsw.edu.au\/fapi\/datastream\/unsworks:36627\/SOURCE02?view=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link to thesis<\/a>]<em>.<\/em><br \/>\nNow research scientist at Indiana University.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/iiserb.ac.in\/sanjeev-jha\/\">Sanjeev Jha<\/a> (former postdoc at UNSW Australia) \u2013 <em>Downscaling of hydrological data, 3D geological modeling under structural heterogeneity and variable connectivity, river sedimentary processes and bathymetry.<\/em><br \/>\nNow Assistant Professor with IIT Bhopal, India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former group members Guanghui Hu (former PhD Candidate, UNIL \/ Zhejiang Normal University)\u00a0 &#8211; DEM downscaling with multiple-point geostatistics. Fabio Oriani (former Postdoc, UNIL) \u2013 geostatistics, hydrometeorology, remote sensing. Luiz Gustavo Rasera (former PhD Candidate, UNIL) \u2013 geostatistical topography downscaling and data fusion. Now Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of British Columbia. 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