Contacts in the Exploration Department

Richard Gloaguen

Leila Ajjabou

• Project INFACT

Robert Zimmermann

• Lab manager 
• UAS pilot
• Surveying/Photogrammetry
• Structural geology

Sandra Lorenz

• Group leader "Remote Sensing"
• Hyperspectral remote sensing for mineral exploration
  • Image and data pre-processing
  • UAS based sensing

Louis Andreani

• Tectonic Geomorphology and Mineral Mapping using Sentinel data

Robert Jackisch

• Multi-Sensor drones for geological mapping (Project MULSEDRO)

Erik Herrmann

Research Technician
Phone: +49 351 260 - 4436
Email: e.herrmann@hzdr.de

• Projekt INFACT

Yuleika Carolina Madriz Diaz

• Drone-borne magnetics

Moritz Kirsch
Research Associate
Phone: +49 351 260 - 4439
Email: m.kirsch@hzdr.de

• Group leader "Outcrop Sensing and Geological 3D Modelling"

Roberto Alejandro De La Rosa Fernandez

• 3D modelling of hyperspectral data

Margret Fuchs

• Group leader "Near-field Sensing"
• Luminescence spectroscopy and dating of natural minerals

Peter Seidel

• Luminescence spectroscopy of natural minerals
• Project InSPECtor
• Optical sorting of secondary raw materials

Titus Abend

Research Associate (PhD student)
Phone: +49 351 260 - 4743
Email: t.abend@hzdr.de 

• REE emission spectroscopy:
  • Steady state luminescence line scan development
  • Time resolved luminescence spectroscopy
  • Project InSPECtor

Junaidh Shaik Fareedh

• Project SenSys
• UAS Engineer
• UAS Pilot

Pedram Ghamisi

• Group leader "Machine Learning"

• Machine learning and deep learning

• Image and signal processing

• Hyperspectral image analysis

• Multisensor data fusion

Isabel Cecilia Contreras Acosta

• Machine learning and image processing for mineral mapping

Kasra Rafiezadeh Shahi

• Unsupervised learning techniques
• Drill-core hyperspectral data
• Project MoCa

Behnood Rasti

Humboldt Research Fellow

• Signal and image processing
• Remote sensing image analysis
• Hyperspectral analysis
• Data fusion
• Control system design
• Robotics

Sreelakshmi Gopakumaran Nair

Research Associate (PhD Student)
Phone: +49 351 260 - 4496
Email: s.gopakumaran-nair@hzdr.de

• Time series remote sensing data analysis

Puhong Duan

Visiting Ph.D. student

• Hyperspectral image classification and restoration