Xiaoxiang Zhu, Professor for Signal Processing in Earth Observation at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has been selected as the winner of the 2018 Leopoldina Early Career Award. The award, which is granted by the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and sponsored by the Commerzbank Foundation, includes an endowment of 30,000 euros. It recognizes Prof. Zhu’s outstanding achievements in satellite-based earth observation for mapping worldwide urbanization and assessing natural hazards.
Xiaoxiang Zhu, born in 1984, has been an Professor in the Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering at TUM since 2015. The appointment was made jointly with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), where she heads the Earth Observation Data Science department. ...
