Schwalb-Willmann, Jakob, M.Sc

Research interests in Earth Observation:
- Modeling of animal-environment interactions
- UAV remote sensing for ecological research with focus on forests (Germany), Savannas (Africa) and Tundra (Arctic, Spitsbergen)
- UAV remote sensing for terrestrial plastic detection
- Machine Learning/Deep Learning for Geoanalysis

Courses in the Master progamme Earth Observation and Geoanalysis ("EAGLE"):
- Deep Learning for Earth Observation
- Animal movement tracking data analysis for Earth Observation
- Introduction to programming and geo-statistics
- Applications of Earth Observation
- Scientific graphics: Building web applications and interactive visualizations
- Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

Courses in the Master programme Biosciences:
- Introduction into remote sensing for ecological analyses
- Remote sensing field methods for ecological analyses

Konstantin Müller (2024) – Animal Path Segmentation and Analysis via Generalized Deep Neural Network Regression (Master thesis, first supervisor/examiner)

Prince Lawson (2024) – Unmasking the shadow economy in Ghana: mapping the distribution of umbrella covered informal vendors in Kumasi (Master thesis, second supervisor/examiner)

Andrea Cárdenas Reyes (2024) – Development of Caribbean seagrass ecosystem accounts fusing Earth Observation with biophysical modeling of coastal carbon (Master thesis, first supervisor/examiner)

Rutendo Mukaratirwa (2023) – Modelling the Spatio-temporal sutability of urban environments for Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes based on their bio-ecological characteristics, in Rio de Janeiro (Master thesis, first supervisor/examiner)

Katrin Wernicke (2023) – Deep Learning for Refugee Camps - Mapping Settlement Extents with Sentinel-2 Imagery and Semantic Segmentation (Master thesis, second supervisor/examiner)

Since 03/2025
Postdoc at the Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC), University of Würzburg

Since 04/2020
Research Associate with teaching duties (Lecturer) at the Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC), University of Würzburg

12/2018 - 03/2025
PhD student at the Department of Remote Sensing, University of Wuerzburg
Topic: "Potentials of animal-environment interactions for remote sensing research"

12/2018 - 03/2020
Research Associate at the Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC), University of Würzburg

10/2016 - 11/2018
Studies of Earth Observation and Geoanalysis "EAGLE" (M.Sc.), University of Wuerzburg
Master thesis: "A deep learning movement prediction framework for identifying anomalies in animal-environment interactions"

01/2017- 06/2018
Student research assistant at the Department of Remote Sensing, University of Wuerzburg

10/2017 - 04/2018
Intern, Institute for Earth Observation, EURAC research, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

08/2017 - 10/2017
Intern, Lab for Computational Ecology, Department for Migration and Immuno-Ecology, Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Radolfzell, Germany

04/2016 - 08/2016
Intern, Department for Land Surface Dynamics, German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

09/2013 - 10/2016
Studies of Geography and Sociology (B.Sc), Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich,
Bachelor thesis: "Comparison of different algorithms for calculating broadband albedo from AVHRR data"

03/2013 - 05/2013
Intern, Department for Mission Operations, Institute for Space Operations and Astronaut training, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany