Team

About

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timo Balz

Timo Balz was born in Stuttgart, Germany. He received the Diploma degree (Dipl.-Geogr.) in geography and the Doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) in aerospace engineering and geodesy from the Universitaet Stuttgart, Stuttgart, in 2001 and 2007, respectively.
From fall 2001 to the end of 2007, he was a Research Assistant with the Institute for Photogrammetry, Universitaet Stuttgart. Between 2004 and 2005, he was a Visiting Scholar with Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. From 2008-2010, he has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University. From 2010-2015 he was Associate Professor for Radar Remote Sensing with LIESMARS. Since 2015 he is Full Professor with LIESMARS. Since 2021, he is Vice-Director of the International Academy of GeoInformation, Wuhan University.

Students

Haonan Jiang

PhD Student

Long-term multi-sensor PsInSAR in urban areas with non-linear deformation patterns.

Zeeshan Afzal

PhD Student

Long-term urban development monitoring with SAR and PSInSAR

Shuyi Yao

PhD Student

Distributed scatterer interferometry algorithm development and analysis

Yifei Li

PhD Student

Target recognition in SAR images and machine learning.

Cem Sönmez

PhD Student

Using SAR to support archaeological prospection and cultural heritage protection.

Sadia Sadiq

PhD Student

InSAR and PSInSAR data analysis

Atif Ahmad

PhD Student

InSAR and PSInSAR data analysis

Aigerim Sultanbekova

PhD Student

Using SAR to support archaeological prospection and cultural heritage protection.

Kunlacha Inpai

Master Student

InSAR analysis for earthquake surveillance and tectonics.

Chike Ifeanyi

Master Student

SAR and InSAR analysis