© Tiss: Wouter Arnoud Dorigo

Univ.Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Wouter Arnoud Dorigo was confirmed permanently as University Professor for Climate and Environmental Remote Sensing at TU Wien with effect from 1 March 2022. He is assigned to the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation (E120) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation at TU Wien.

CV: Wouter Dorigo was born in Arnhem (Netherlands) and studied geography with a focus on "physical geography" at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands). From 2002-2006 he worked at the German Remote Sensing Data Center of the DLR (German Aerospace Center) near Munich. In 2008 he did his doctorate on the topic "Retrieving canopy variables by radiative transfer model inversion, opens an external URL in a new window" at the Technical University of Munich. Before that, in 2007, he moved to TU Wien, where he worked first as a university assistant, later as a postdoc at the Institute for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and from 2012 to April 2017 as a Senior Scientist in the Remote Sensing research group of the Institute for Geodesy and Geoinformation (GEO). Since May 2017 he had a temporary professorship for Climate and Environmental Remote Sensing at TU Wien and has since headed the research group "Climate and Environmental Remote Sensing, opens in new window" (CLIMERS, E120-01- 2) within the Remote Sensing research area.

Since September 2022 he is the Head of the Research Unit Climate and Environmental Remote Sensing (E120-8). As project coordinator and scientist, Wouter Dorigo played a leading role in the development and construction of the ESA CCI, opens an external URL in a new window multi-decadal global soil moisture dataset of the International Soil Moisture Network, opens an external URL in a new window. In addition, he received the TU Wien Science Prize in 2015.

Publications by Wouter Dorigo in the Scopus, opens an external URL in a new window database and in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.