Prof. Susan Steele-Dunne

The M-WAVE research group is lead by Prof. Susan Steele-Dunne from the Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).

Susan obtained her PhD (2006) and SM (2002) in Hydrology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Dara Entekhabi. Her PhD research focussed on the development of data assimilation techniques to merge observations from the radar and radiometer aboard NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission with a land surface model to estimate surface and root zone soil moisture.  

Dr. Vineet Kumar

Vineet joined TU Delft as a postdoctoral researcher in May 2019 to work on Sentinel-1 SAR data for agricultural applications.

Vineet obtained his PhD from Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India in 2019. His PhD research was focused on the use of polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) earth observation techniques for land feature analysis. He received his master's degree in Remote Sensing and GIS from Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO, Dehradun, India in 2013 and bachelor's in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2010.

Paul Vermunt

Paul obtained his MSc degree in Hydrology from Utrecht University in 2016. He joined TU Delft as a PhD researcher in 2017. His PhD research focuses on better understanding hydrodynamic responses of vegetation to drought and relating these responses to variation in radar backscatter.

Saeed Khabbazan

Saeed's PhD research is on the early detection of water stress using active microwave data. In particular, he is focussed on using active microwave data and radiative transfer modelling techniques to better understand the diurnal and seasonal water dynamics inside the vegetation and soil.

Saeed graduated with a Master of Science in the field of Remote Sensing from Tehran University, Tehran, Iran in 2014. His master thesis was about monitoring surface soil moisture using active microwave data. Prior to that, he obtained his Bachelor of Science in 2011 in the field of Surveying and Geomatics from Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran.

Nadja den Besten

Nadja is an external PhD candidate whose thesis research is based on her work at VanderSat , using satellite remote sensing to improve water management in irrigated agriculture. Nadja obtained her MSc. in Water Management from TU Delft in 2016 and has since been working in Mozambique and the Netherlands.