Alexander Damm-Reiser is head of the Remote Sensing of Water Systems (RSWS) group, a joint professorship between the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich (UZH) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag). Alexander obtained an MSc and PhD degree in remote sensing at the Humboldt-University Berlin. In 2008, he joint UZH to continue his remote sensing education by focusing on imaging spectroscopy methodology and applications across Earth spheres. His current research aims to enable Earth observation to study waters systems. With a special emphasis on the fundamentals of remote sensing, he studies water dynamics across both, terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and aims understanding how environmental change impact water systems. Alexander is actively involved in various interdisciplinary projects, including FLEX and GALENE (European Space Agency), DeltAs, Spatial-sustainable-finance (SNSF), UrbaNature (Meteochweiz), and NextGenCarbon (EU).

I consider it a great privilege to work at an excellent university with passionate and smart colleagues, contributing to solving important water related social and environmental problems. The diversity of my daily work, ranging from research with cutting-edge technology to the development of complex methods and the connection to sophisticated applications, combined with the opportunity to train a young generation of remote sensing specialists, makes my daily work very interesting and highly motivating.

ESA: FLuorescence EXplorer (FLEX) mission

Meteoschweiz: UrbanNature

SNSF: FLUO4ECO - Combining Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Mechanistic Modelling for Advanced Assessments of Ecosystem Photosynthesis

SNSF/Innosuisse (Bridge-Discovery): Spatial sustainable finance: Satellite-based ratings of company footprints in biodiversity and water

SNSF (Sinergia): DeltΔs - Evaluating delta-wide changes in geogenic arsenic (As) contamination under anthropogenic pressures: An integrated approach to assess groundwater vulnerability in Vietnam

NextGenCarbon (EU-Horizon): Next Generation Modelling of Terrestrial Carbon Cycle by assimilation of in-situ campaigns and Earth Observations

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