Project Team
Current members
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Frontend Developer | Moos Castelijn
BSc. Applied Mathematics
Project title: The History of the Global Environment (HYDE): visualizing Earth's environmental history. Make the HYDE data available for the public by querying all data in an interactive manner.
Webdesigners | Moos Castelijn, Arian Joyandeh
Former contracted talented frontend webdesigners of the newly build HYDE portal.
PhD position: The Footprint of Colonialism
Happy to announce that Ms. Linu Danielkutty has joined Copernicus in June 2024 as a PhD candidate and she will be part of the Land Change team as well.
Teaching staff
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Flavia Aschi
MSc junior assistant professor
Teaching staff of my 3rd year bachelor Land Change Science course which I coordinate (GEO3-2419)
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Kevin Mganga
MSc junior assistant professor
Teaching staff of my 3rd year bachelor Land Change Science course which I coordinate (GEO3-2419)
Linu Danielkutty
PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant
Colonial Footprint project
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MSc Giulia Marroni
Teaching Assistant
Former team members
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Murray Scown
Dr.
Physical geographer. He has a PhD in Geography from the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. Worked in Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), Sweden and has recently moved back to Lund again. We aim to continue working with...
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Willemien van der Wielen
MSc. Utrecht University
Willemien has worked part-time at Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, UU, and works currently also part-time at Climate Risk Services, Utrecht. She is the author of the master thesis on Future Anthromes and is still involved in our co-authored paper...
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Lu Yin
MSc. Utrecht University
Lu has graduated as a master student at Copernicus on 'Heat Stress on Future Anthromes.' He is currently working in China but still involved in writing a paper on his thesis (Yin, L., K. Klein Goldewijk, M. Scown (2023), Global...
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