TEAM – University of Valencia (UV): USMILE Host Institution


Prof. Gustau Camps Valls

Prof. Gustau Camps-Valls

  • Affiliation: UV-ISP
  • Professor in Electrical Engineering and head of the Image and Signal Processing group in the Image Processing Laboratory (IPL) at the University of Valencia – WP1-4
  • USMILE co-PI
  • Personal webpage

Dr. José Enrique Adsuara

  • Affiliation: UV-ISP
  • Postdoctoral Researcher – WP2 & WP3
  • Hybrid modeling to link physics and machine learning models. Causal discovery and inference from data.


Diego Bueso

  • Affiliation: UV-ISP
  • PhD Researcher – WP3
  • Development and application of feature extraction and causal inference methods on remote sensing data for spatio-temporal modeling of interaction at multiple time scales of Earth system.

Kai-Hendrik Cohrs

  • Affiliation: UV-ISP
  • PhD researcher – WP2
  • Parameter identification and partition of ecosystem carbon fluxes with machine learning models. Deploying Bayesian methods to include prior knowledge and estimate the uncertainty of parameters and models.
  • Personal webpage


Jordi Cortes

  • Affiliation: UV-ISP
  • PhD Researcher – WP1
  • Applications of kernel methods and deep learning models to anomaly and extreme event detection owing to climate change processes.

Emiliano Díaz

  • Affiliation: UV-ISP
  • PhD Researcher – WP3
  • Kernel methods, graphical models and causality, with the focus on Earth science applications.

Dr. Miguel Ángel Fernández

  • Affiliation: UV-ISP
  • Postdoctoral Researcher – WP3
  • Understanding and designing explainable deep generative models and machine attention mechanisms to be deployed in anomaly and extreme event detection.

Luis Gomez Chova

Prof. Luis Gómez-Chova

  • Affiliation: UV-ISP
  • Full Professor in the Electronic Engineering Department at the University of Valencia
  • Senior Researcher of the Image and Signal Processing Group in the Image Processing Laboratory at the University of Valencia – WP1
  • Machine learning models to improve cloud classification in satellite imagery to better characterize inputs of climate models.
  • Personal webpage

Laura Martínez Ferrer

  • Affiliation: UV-ISP
  • PhD Researcher – WP1
  • Remote sensing researcher using deep learning to upscale high resolution carbon fluxes and developing machine learning methods for crop yield estimation from climate and multi-sensor data.

Dr. Álvaro Moreno Martínez

  • Affiliation: UV-ISP
  • Postdoctoral Researcher – WP1 & WP2
  • Remote Sensing scientist developing  physical and statistical models and operational methodologies for the study of vegetation cover.

Dr. Maria Piles

  • Affiliation: UV-ISP
  • Senior Research Scientist – WP1, WP3
  • Microwave remote sensing, estimation of water content in soils and vegetation, multi-sensor synergies for Earth and climate studies.
  • Personal webpage

Dr. Eva Sevillano Marco

  • Affiliation: UV-ISP
  • Postdoctoral Research Coordination
  • Coordination & Project Management at ISP. Environmentalist & Remote Sensing Scientist.

Dr. Gherardo Varando

  • Affiliation: UV-ISP
  • Postdoctoral Researcher – WP3
  • Causal discovery and inference from spatio-temporal data.