Directors and Coordination
Prof. Dr. Markus Reichstein
ELLIS unit Jena, Director | ELLIS Fellow
Director ELLIS program „Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Science“
Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena
Professor for Global Geoecology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Denzler
ELLIS unit Jena, Director | ELLIS Fellow
ELLIS program „Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Science“
Professor for Computer Vision in the Institute for Computer Science at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Dr. Conrad H. Philipp
ELLIS unit Jena, Senior Project Coordinator
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Abeera Khan
ELLIS unit Jena, Social Media Manager
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, University of Greifswald
Varis Malazezi
ELLIS unit Jena, Video producer
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Dilşad Kurdak
ELLIS unit Jena, Graphic designer
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Bauhaus University Weimar
Members
Dr. Nuno Carvalhais
ELLIS Scholar
ELLIS program „Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Science“
Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena
Prof. Dr. Jakob Runge
ELLIS Scholar
ELLIS program „Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Science“
Professor of Data Science at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Technical University Dresden
Guest Professor of Climate Informatics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University Berlin
Dr. Ana Bastos
ELLIS Member
Professor for land-atmosphere interactions at Leipzig University
Prof. Dr. Joachim Giesen
ELLIS Member
Professor for Theoretical Computer Science in the Department of Theoretical Computer Science at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Prof. Dr. Alexander Brenning
ELLIS Member
Professor of Geographic Information Science, Department of Geography at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Dr. Alexander Winkler
ELLIS Member
Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena
Group: Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate and Causality (ABC3)
Dr. Shijie Jiang
ELLIS Unit Jena Research Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena
Prof. Dr. Kai Lawonn
Professor for Visualization and Exploratory Data Analysis in the Institute for Computer Science at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Prof. Dr. Michael Habeck
Professor for Microscopic Image Analysis in the Medical Faculty at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena‘
Jena University Hospital
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Sophie Biskop
Senior Project Coordinator and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Geographic Information Science group, Department of Geography at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Dr. Basil Kraft
Project group leader and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena
Dr. Andreas Gerhardus
Group head and Postdoctoral Researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Data Science Jena
Dr. Paul Bodesheim
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computer Vision Group, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Dr. Lazaro Alonso
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena
Dr. Christian Reimers
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena
Dr. Guohua Liu
Postdoctoral Researcher at Leipzig University
Dr. Jonas Wahl
Fomer Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Group Climate Informatics at TU Berlin and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Data Science Jena
Dr. Thomas Suesse
Senior lecturer at the University of Wollongong
Dr. Aishwarya Venkataramanan
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computer Vision Group, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Ph.D. Candidates
Vitus Benson
ELLIS PhD candidate* at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena and ETH Zurich
Claire Robin
ELLIS PhD candidate* at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena
George Blougouras
ELLIS PhD candidate* at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena
Yucong Hu
ELLIS PhD candidate* at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena and Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Oana-Iuliana Popescu
PhD candidate at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Data Science Jena
Jialiang Zhou
PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena
Wasim Ahmad
PhD candidate in the Computer Vision Group, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Christian Requena
PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena
Gideon Stein
PhD candidate in the Computer Vision Group, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Wiebke Günther
PhD candidate at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Data Science Jena
Matthias Körschens
PhD candidate at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Niklas Penzel
PhD candidate in the Computer Vision Group, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Reda ElGhawi
PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena
Jakob Gawlikowski
PhD candidate Researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Data Science Jena
Jan Blunk
PhD candidate in the Computer Vision Group, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Florian Strohmaier
PhD candidate at the Geographic Information Science group, Department of Geography at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Jonathan Frank
PhD candidate in the GIScience group, Department of Geography at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Franziska Müller
PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena
Dr. Zhihao Wang
Former PhD candidate at the Geographic Information Science group, Department of Geography at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Visiting Ph.D. Candidate
Feini Huang
ELLIS unit Jena, Visiting Ph.D. Candidate
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Lijun Wang
ELLIS unit Jena, Visiting Ph.D. Candidate
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Associated Members
Prof. Dr. Veronika Eyring
ELLIS Fellow
ELLIS program „Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Science“
Head of the “Earth System Model Evaluation and Analysis” Department at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Atmospheric Physics and Professor of Climate Modelling at the University of Bremen
Prof. Dr. Gustau Camps-Valls
ELLIS Fellow
Director of the ELLIS program „Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Science“
Professor in Electrical Engineering at the Universitat de València
Group Leader of the Image and Signal Processing (ISP) group
Prof. Dr. Miguel Mahecha
ELLIS Fellow
ELLIS program „Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Science“
Professor for Modelling Approaches in Remote Sensing at the Leipzig University,
Leader of the “Earth System Data Science” group at the Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research
Prof. Dr. Pierre Gentine
Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering at the University of Coumbia
Director, Learning the Earth with AI and Physics (LEAP) NSF Science and Technology Center
Prof. Dr. Marco Körner
Head of the Chair of Remote Sensing Technology and Adjunct Teaching Professor for Computer Vision and Machine Learning at Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Prof. Dr. Sören Laue
Professor for Machine Learning at University of Hamburg
Dr. Mirco Migliavacca
Scientific Officer at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in the Bioeconomy and Forest Unit
Alumni
Marija Blagojević
ELLIS unit Jena, Social Media Manager
November 2022 until June 2024
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Negar Rahnamae
ELLIS unit Jena, Graphic designer
Juni 2023 until September 2024
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena
Dr. Conrad H. PHILIPP
European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)
ELLIS Unit Jena | Project Coordinator