May 1, 2026
Marc Rußwurm will be on parental leave from (approximately) May 1st until September 2026. Responses will be delayed.
Research Group
Incoming Jun. Prof. & Emmy Noether Group Leader
ELLIS PhD Candidate (Bonn & MPI Biogeochemistry)
External PhD Candidate at Wageningen University
External PhD Candidate at the University of the Aegean
Harkaitz Goyena Baroja
Visiting postdoctoral scholar from the Public University of Navarre (Spain)
News
Apr 30, 2026
A paper led by Arjun Rao with Ruth Crasto, Tessa Ooms, David Rolnick, Konstantin Klemmer, and Marc Rußwurm, “Localized, High-resolution Geographic Representations with Slepian Functions“, has been accepted as a regular paper at ICML 2026.
Apr 21, 2026
The paper “Exploring Transferability of Plastic-Water Hyacinth Interaction and Detection in Rivers” has been accepted for publication in Cell iScience. The paper was led by Giel Hagenbeek in collaboration with Tim H.M. van Emmerik, Tianlong Jia, Pummarin Khamdahsag, Kittiphon Boonma, Riccardo Taormina, and Thomas Mani.
Giel also wrote a blog post about his field experiences with the River Cleaners of Bangkok and the Yellow Boats from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration — read it here.
Apr 16, 2026
The paper Exploring plastic detectability on riverbanks using remote sensing has been accepted for publication in the Marine Pollution Bulletin. The paper was led by Milou Maathuis and supervised with Tim van Emmerik and Mathias Bochow.
Mar 26, 2026
An Emmy Noether Group in Methods of AI proposal titled “Earth Embeddings: Learning Concept Maps in Neural Nets” has been funded by DFG. Hence, from September 2026 onwards, this group will be an Emmy Noether Group with Marc Rußwurm appointed as Junior Professor. See the University of Bonn press release for more details.
Recent Papers
- Dataset Underlying The Publication "Detecting Marine Litter Windrows In PlanetScope Imagery" — Zenodo (Dataset Contribution) (2026)
- Exploring Transferability Of Plastic-Water Hyacinth Interaction And Detection In Rivers — Accepted at Cell iScience (2026)
- Exploring Plastic Detectability On Riverbanks Using Remote Sensing — Accepted at Marine Pollution Bulletin (2026)
- Localized, High-Resolution Geographic Representations With Slepian Functions — Accepted at the International Conference in Machine Learning (ICML, 2026)
- Sentinel-2 Reveals Prolonged And Localized Extreme Vegetation Anomalies Across Europe — SSRN (Preprint, 2026)