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Registration to the EGSIEM Challenge competition is now unfortunately closed, but we are pleased to announce the below winners!

B.Sc. Philippa Higgins

Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology, TU-Dresden, Germany

Philippa is an environmental engineer specializing in Hydrogeology. Her main research focus lies in groundwater management, and she has other research interests in groundwater resources assessment and modelling, climate-surface water-groundwater interactions and climate change impacts and adaptation. She is currently studying her M.Sc. in groundwater and global change, through the Erasmus Mundus Program. Prior to her studies, Philippa worked in the Australian Office for Water Science and in the Australian Department of Climate Change.

B.Sc. Julian Rodriguez Villamizar

ESPACE, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Julian graduated with a B.Sc. in Geomatics and Land Surveying Engineering from the Universidad PolitÈcnica de Madrid. He is an M.Sc. student at the TU Munich in the ESPACE program. In parallel to his master studies, he is working at the DGFI and at the Institut für Astronomische und Physikalische Geodäsie as a Research Assistant. He has performed research on hydrocarbon localization by multispectral and hyperspectral sensors, including an investigation on atmospheric corrections using on-scene techniques and radiative transfer models. His current research interests include geophysical phenomena in a global and regional scale with a focus on ionosphere and gravity.

B.Sc. Rachel Peizo Cheng

UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands

Rachel's current research interests includes the analysis of spatial and temporal relationships between surface and subsurface soil moisture, evaluation of remotely sensed soil moisture and/or groundwater products for practical application, improving groundwater budgets by inclusion of remotely sensed data especially in developing regions with sparse in-situ data networks. She is particularly interested in these topics within the context of climate change, sustainable water management and flood risk management.

B.Sc. Alexandros Kazantzidis

Department of Geodesy and Surveying, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Alexandros is an M.Sc. student at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering. Currently, he is working on his diploma thesis under the supervision of Professor Dimitrios Tsoulis. The topic of his thesis is the application of numerical integration techniques for satellite orbit determination. During a diverse and exciting 5-year curriculum he has developed a special interest in geodetic courses, such as gravimetry and satellite geodesy. He is also interested in programming languages. He is currently working with Python and Matlab. After completing his Masters, he would like to continue with graduate studies and explore the many aspects and applications of Geodesy.