Affiliateship: 2021-2025
Cohort 6
Country (Nationality)
Ethiopia
Discipline
Geological, Environmental, Earth & Space Sciences
Bio
Dr. Binyam Tesfaw Hailu is an Assistant Professor of Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics at the school of Earth Sciences, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa University (Jan 2016 to Date). He graduated with Ph.D. in geoinformatics from the University of Helsinki, Finland in January 2016 and has an MSc and BSc Degrees from Addis Ababa University in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) (July 2007) and Geology (July 2007), respectively. From November 2017 to February 2020, he was a Georg Forster Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Geo-informatics through the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Marburg, Germany. As an assistant professor: 1) he teaches core courses of Remote Sensing, GIS, Cartography, Spatial programming; 2) Advising thesis works of graduate students (both Masters and doctoral students); 3) Participating in research projects that could be solved through Geoinformatics. His research interest focusses on Remote Sensing and Geographic Information for applications to Geo-sciences, vegetation, and environmental sciences. Currently, he is Principal Investigator (PI) of the two projects i) Bale Mountains project entitled "The Mountain Exile Hypothesis" funded by German Research Foundation: DFG Research unit 2358: https://www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb19/dfg2358 (2016 to 2023) and ESSA: Earth observation and environmental sensing for climate-smart sustainable agropastoral ecosystem transformation in East Africa: https://europa.eu/capacity4dev/desira/wiki/essa-east-africa (2020 to 2024). Personal Web links