People

Executive team

Marj Tonini Director

Marj Tonini is a spatial data scientist with a strong interest on geospatial modelling for risk assessment, mainly related to wildfires and landslides. Marj's research focuses on the development of innovative approaches to enable efficient learning from complex environmental datasets.

Ludovic Räss Vice-director

Ludovic is a computational geoscientist with research interests focussing on the development and application of high-performance and scalable software tools to further understand the localisation of flow and deformation in ice and porous rocks.

Christian Kaiser Vice-director

Christian Kaiser is a specialist in geovisualisation, quantitative geography, GIS, geocomputation and data science. His research interests include topics of «Computational GIScience» and dynamic and interactive visualisation.

Scientific committee

Tom's broad interests are atmospheric physics, deep learning, climate informatics and environmental fluid dynamics. He combine statistics, theory, numerical simulations and observational analyses to improve our understanding of meteorology and climate, and guide the development of operational models of storms and clouds.

Daniela's research focuses on an improved understanding of the dynamics and predictability of weather and climate through the study of extreme events, global remote connections, and interactions between components of the climate system using statistical tools, a hierarchy from simple to high performance numerical models, as well as data science.

György's research focuses on in the continental lithosphere: its structure, its deformation and the associated physical processes. His principal tools of investigation are geophysical imaging (seismology, gravimetry, drilling) and numerical modelling (themo-mechanical, petrological), including fieldwork.

Guillaume's research interest spans from the mathematical aspects of ice flow models to the observation of glacial processes using drones.

Gregoire's research interests reside in the development of stochastic methods that characterize the spatial and temporal variability inherent to hydrological systems. He develop numerical techniques using high-order, non-parametric statistics, which allow for mining the full richness of modern datasets.

Stefan's main research interests are the quantification of geological processes with mathematical models that are based on the concepts of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, particularly the study of mountain building processes.

Céline studies the evolution of systems of cities in globalization at the world scales, with large comparative urban databases, mapping and visualizing the socio-economic networks of cities. Since 2016, she has also developed research on urban health systems and specifically a large MOOC with 30 interveners on COURSERA. In the complexity of multi-level urban systems, she uses the theoretical framework of "panarchy" to highlight the resilience properties of cities. She uses methodologies from complex systems science in collaboration with physicists and computer scientists to bring new forms of intelligibility to global urban dynamics.

Assistants

Jacques assists the executive team of the Swiss Geocomputing Centre organising various events, being also a PhD student at IGD.

Haokun is a student assistant in the Swiss Geocomputing Centre. His research focusses on the urban complexity, health geography and spatial data science.

Past members

Beatriz Quintal scientific committee

Yuri Podladchikov founding member