Dr. Florian Betz
Department of Remote Sensing
+49 (0)931 31-82407
Institute for Geography and Geology
Department for Remote Sensing
John Skilton Str. 4a
97074 Würzburg
- Biogeomorphology
- Interdisciplinary River Science
- GIS and Remote Sensing
- (Satellite) Time Series Analysis
- GIS-Based Modeling of Environmental Systems
- Applied Machine Learning
- Ecosystem Services
- Social-Ecological Systems
Since 2024: Principal Investigator at the Earth Observation Research Cluster at the University of Würzburg
2023: Visiting Scholar at the Natural Capital Project and Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University
2019-2023: Coordinator of the “ÖkoFlussPlan” Project at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Applied Physical Geography
2018-2023: Member of the core team of the Floodplain Institute Neuburg
2021: Dissertation on the topic “Biogeomorphology from Space: Assessing the Corridor of the Naryn River in Kyrgyzstan Based on Remote Sensing” (Supervisors: Bernd Cyffka, Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and Gregory Egger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
2018: Research Associate at the Applied Physical Geography at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and Geobotany, Trier University
2014-2017: Research Associate in the “EcoCAR” project at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
2011-2014: M.Sc. at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (topic of the master thesis: Selected aeolian processes in the eastern Tarim Basin: biogeomorphic interactions and their role for ecosystem services of natural floodplain vegetation”)
2007-2011: B.Sc. at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (topic of the bachelor thesis: “Wind erosion and aeolian landforms in Iceland”)
