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Eliza has joined the academic team as a senior scientist. She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012-2013), Empa (2013-2017) and the University of Innsbruck (2017-2020). Eliza received her PhD in Atmospheric Science from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in 2012, and her Bachelor degree with Honours in Antarctic Science from the University of Tasmania in 2008. Her previous research has centered around the use of novel isotopic measurements and modelling approaches in atmospheric and biogeosciences, in particular the nitrogen cycle. Her research at SDSC will focus on data analytics and machine learning approaches in environmental and natural sciences.

Michele received a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) in 2013. He was then a visiting postdoc in the CALVIN group, Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (2014-2016). He then joined the Multimodal Remote Sensing and the Geocomputation groups at the Geography department of the University of Zurich, Switzerland (2016-2017). His main research activities were at the interface of computer vision, machine and deep learning for the extraction of information from aerial photos, satellite optical images and geospatial data in general.

William obtained a PhD in Statistics in 2015 jointly from the University of Geneva and the University of Sydney. He then worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at Dalhousie University as part of a Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute collaborative research team. He was an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, before joining the SDSC in September 2020. His research interests include robust statistics, non-parametric methods, and spatio-temporal modeling. His recent cross-disciplinary collaborations involve applications in marine biology, volcanology, and fisheries science.