About
Michael studied Geography at the University of Graz, Austria (2000-2007) with a focus on remote sensing, geoinformatics and human geography. He joined DLR in 2008 for his PhD thesis on the integration of remotely sensed spatial information in urban urban for the integration in empirical social scientific analysis in cooperation with the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). Between 2013-2022 he was a PostDoc at DLR focusing on studies in the context of urban poverty research, urban green and air pollution. Since 2022 he leads the City and Society Research group at DLR. Michael is passionate about the inspiring work and always curios about finding new insights about our urban environments.

Recent News
Ahmed Saadallah successfully defended his thesis
We congratulate Ahmed for his great M.Sc. presentation and the whole audience for the very lively discussions on methods and implications plus historical reasons of the detected patterns. Another EAGLE M.Sc. students graduated and is now an Earth Observation...
check out the news blog by our students
Our EAGLE students are posting various news about their activities, experiences or codes they developed. Read about their past years within the EAGLE program, their participation in international remote sensing conferences or what they achieved within EAGLE courses....
M.Sc. thesis presentation by Ahmed Saadallah
Ahmed Saadallah will defend his M.Sc. thesis "The Potential of Earth Observation for Monitoring Agricultural Lands in Egypt (1984-2017)" on Wednesday 10th of April at 2pm in the student working room JMW 52. The need for accurate and timely information on the extent...
M.Sc. defense by Johannes Löw
You are all invited to join the M.Sc. presentation by Johannes Löw. He will defend his M.Sc. thesis on Wednesday 20th of March at 2pm in room 0.004 in OKW 86. from his abstract:Since Sentinel-1 A and B have become fully operational, it is now possible to generate...
M.Sc. defense of Maninder Singh Dhillon
We congratulate Maninder who successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis “Comparing the performance of crop growth models using synthetic remote sensing data at DEMMIN, Germany” supervised by Martin Wegmann and Christopher Conrad.
Maninder Singh Dhillon handed in his MSc
Maninder Singh Dhillon handed in his M.Sc. "Comparing the performance of crop growth models using synthetic remote sensing data at DEMMIN, Germany" supervised by Thorsten Dahms with the first and second supervisors Martin Wegmann and Christopher Conrad, respectively....
EAGLE welcome 2018
Our new EAGLEs arrived! We welcomed our new international EAGLE students from the US, Ecuador, Bangladesh, Ruanda or Germany for the upcoming winter term and introduced the lectures as well as the courses. In the evening we had a joint dinner to get to...
EAGLE M.Sc. idea presentations
On Monday, 24th of September from 1:30 onwards the following EAGLE students will present their M.Sc. idea. Everybody is welcome to join their presentations and to provide feedback: Julia: "Time-Series Analysis of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2...
EAGLE summer dialogue 2018
Our 2018 EAGLE summer dialogue took place last Friday, 22nd of June and was a great place to meet all students, lectures, staff of the department and quite some external guests from all around Europe.
application deadline is approaching – May 15th
the application deadline for our next term of the international M.Sc. program EAGLE “applied Earth Observation and Geoanalysis of the Living Environment” is approaching. Application for the upcoming winter term are accepted until May 15th