Profile
Abstract
Josefine Umlauft is the head of the Earth and Environmental Sciences group at ScaDS.AI (Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence) in Leipzig. Her main research interests are on Environmental Seismology and methodological developments for an improved understanding of near-surface environmental processes on the exploration scale. She thereby focuses on natural hazards and mass movements, especially in the cryosphere and mountainous regions. Based on highly resolved time series data, Josefine Umlauft combines signal processing, source location (array techniques), modelling and machine learning to conduct her research.
Professional career
- since 01/2022
Leader of the Team "Earth and Environmental Sciences" - ScaDS.AI (https://scads.ai/) - 01/2020 - 04/2020
Scientific Visitor - Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), New Mexico, USA - 01/2019 - 12/2021
Researcher - Leipzig University, Institute of Geophysics and Geology - 01/2018 - 04/2018
Scientific Visitor - Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre), Grenoble, France - 02/2015 - 01/2019
PhD in Geophysics - Leipzig University, Institute of Geophysics and Geology
- Machine Learning
- Advanced Signal Processing and Time Series Analysis
- Environmental Seismology - understanding near-surface environmental processes on the exploration scale based on their seismic signature, specifically natural hazards/mass movements (e.g., glacier dynamics, landslides, rockfalls, subsurface fluid flow) and tree sway
- Array Techniques (e.g., Seismic Source Location)
- Finite Difference Modelling of Elastic and Acoustic Wave Fields
- Earth System Data Cubes - Handling, Preprocessing, ML Tooling