RS4G

Our team is based at GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, and the Institute of Photogrammetry and geoinformation (IPI) at Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover. We are doing some cool (ice sheets, glaciers) and hot (volcano, and urban heat island) stuff to understand how to effectively use multiple remotely sensed data to understand geo-hazards in the light of climate change.

Group Leader

Prof. Dr. Mahdi Motagh

My research interest is focused on the use of RADAR remote sensing data to investigate processes related to various types of geological phenomena and engineering applications, such as active tectonics, landslides, floods, groundwater extraction/injection, underground mining, glacier motion and ice mass change, dam stability, and anthropogenic activities in urban areas.

Senior Scientist

Dr. Sigrid Roessner

Postdoctoral researcher

Dr. Mahmud Haghshenas Haghighi	Dr. Alina Shevchenko	Dr. Marzieh Baes	Dr. Jianan Li
Research Interests: SAR Interferometry and its application for natural and anthropogenic hazards	Research Interests: Volcanology, Aerial Surveying, hazard estimation and mapping	Research Interests: Numerical modeling of crustal deformation processes, subduction zone initiation	Research Interests: Radar remote sensing for geohazards

PhD students

Wandi Wang	Zelong Guo	Andreas Piter	Sulaiman Hotaki
Research Interests: Remote sensing and InSAR time series analysis, deep learning, landslide	Research Interest: Geodetic inversion, Earthquake inversion and fault tectonics processes with remote sensing and geodetic observations	Research Interest: InSAR time series for transportation infrastructure	Research Interest: flood monitoring using SAR
Binayak Ghosh	Dibakar Kamalini Ritushree	Magdalena Vassileva	Imeime Uyo
Research Interests:Deep learning applications in the context of remote sensing	Research Interests:Deep learning applications in the context of remote sensing	Research Interests: Radar Remote Sensing and SAR Interferometry (InSAR), Active tectonics and fault zone processes, land subsidence, landslide	Research Interests: Radar Remote Sensing and SAR Interferometry (InSAR), land subsidence
Erik Rivas	Yuyan Zhu
Research Interests: Radar Remote Sensing and SAR Interferometry (InSAR), land subsidence	Research Interests: Radar Remote Sensing and SAR Interferometry (InSAR), Natural Disaster analysis

Visiting scholars and students

Prof. Chao Zhu	Dr. Yuankun Xu	M. Sc. Maoqi Liu
Visting Scientist from School of Geography and Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences, 430078 Wuhan, China Research Interests: Landslide monitoring, early warning and risk assessment,  Remote sensing and Machine learning for landslide, Landslide related GIS system	Visiting Scientist from University of California, Berkeley Research Interests: Multi-sensor remote sensing and geodesy, Mechanics of landslides and debris flows, Numerical modeling of mass movement	Visiting PhD student from Hunan University of Science and Technology Remote sensing, deep learning and physical modeling for Ground Motion

Masters students

Bachelors students

Elsa Neumann

University of Potsdam

Former Members

• Dr. Zhuge Xia,  now Assistant Professor at School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
• Dr. Mimi Peng,  now Assistant Professor at Xidian University, China
• Xiaohang Wang, PhD student from Wuhan University, China
• Dr. Haonan Jiang, Wuhan University, China
• Juanjuan Yu, visiting PhD student from School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
• Shagun Garg,  now PhD student at the University of Cambridge, UK
• Dr. Tang Wei, now Associate Professor at College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing, China
• Dr. Deying Ma,  now at State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, 610500 Chengdu, China
• Dr. Julia Neelmeijer, now at LiveEO in Berlin
• Dr. Christin Lubitz, now Application Development Manager at Airbus Defence and Space, Germany
• Vamshi Karanam, now PhD student at Southern Methodist University, USA
• Dr. Sanaz Vajedian, now postdoc at Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
• Dr. Jiyuan Hu, now lecturer at College of Geography and Environmental Science, Henan University, China
• Vishal Mishra, PhD student at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India
• Rangoli Goel, IIT Roorkee, India
• Vijaya Kumar Thota, formerly at IIT Roorkee, India, now PhD student at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany