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Date Submitted:	28-09-2011
Last Modified:	17-10-2011 (08:50)

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Current job:	ESA Research Fellow
Employment Term:	Permanent
Job location:	Europe only
Date available:
Industry:	Civil Agencies/International Organizations, Satellite Manufacturers and Subcontractors, Satellite Operators, , , Business Services, Consulting/Engineering Services
Keywords	satellite engineering, EO products and applications, flight dynamics, large datasets, visualisation, microwave remote sensing, soil moisture, hydrology, product documentation, data usage, scatterometers, radiometers, SAR

CV

Date and Place of Birth: 1978 May 12, Braşov, Romania Marital Status: unmarried Citizenship: Romanian / Swedish Driving License: B   Summary Strong satellite engineering background. Solid knowledge of Earth Observation products and applications. Involvement in the hands-on development and implementation of remote sensing algorithms, scientific concepts and models. Extensive experience with processing and validation of (large) remote sensing datasets. Solid knowledge of orbital mechanics and flight dynamics. Earth Observation data usage enhancement and promotion activities, via presentations and lectures, trainings, conferences and research cooperations. Peer-reviewing for international journals. Working Experience European Space Agency (ESA ESRIN) Frascati, Italy 04 / 2010 – present Research Fellow Active in the Directorate of Earth Observation Programs; Science, Applications and Future Technologies Department; Research and Development Section: - SMOS soil moisture exploitation activities - CCI (Climate Change Initiative) preparatory activities for the Soil Moisture ECV (Essential Climate Variable) Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Technische Universität Wien, Austria 03 / 2004 – 04 / 2010 Research Assistant Research area: - Geophysical parameter retrieval from microwave remote sensing data with emphasis on land applications/hydrology - Operational development of remote sensing models and applications. EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany 01 / 2008 – 04 / 2008 Visiting scientist Visiting scientist mission with the Meteorological Division of EUMETSAT, involving the development of a scatterometer soil moisture processor and general Cal/Val activities for ASCAT products. IRSIT SA, Tunis, Tunisia 06 / 2001 – 09 / 2001 GIS programming specialist Developing a GIS graphical user interface in JAVA (IAESTE internship). Education Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria 2004–2009 PhD degree: physics, satellite engineering, remote sensing   École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada 2000–2001 Student exchange year   Luleå University of Technology, Luleå and Kiruna, Sweden 1998–2004 MSc: Space Engineering Volunteer Involvement Organising and participating at numerous complementary education courses and training workshopswithin BEST (Board of European Students of Technology)in many European countries in the fields of (space) engineering, management, marketing, natural sciences, etc. Participants to these courses are typically technical university students from all over Europe. Peer-reviewingfor international journalssuch as Remote Sensing of Environment, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, etc. Awards 2008: ASAG Doctoral Student Mobility Grant (ASAG-Mobilitätsstipendium für StudentInnen bzw. AbsolventInnen des Doktoratstudiums an der TU Wien), Austria 2004: Bengt Hultqvist Student of the Year Award 2004, Kiruna Space and Environment Campus, Sweden 2002: Visiting student grant, cooperation project in mathematics with Pomor State University, Arkhangelsk, Russia 1998: Leonardo scholarship for an exchange program with Lycée Marcel Sembat in Vénissieux, France Computer Literacy Programming / Scripting / Databases (IDL, C++, Java, Visual Basic, Matlab, HTML, PHP, ASP, MySQL, JavaScript, CVS) Image Processing (ENVI, ERDAS Imagine, MatLab, etc.) GIS (ArcGIS, ArcIMS, Google Maps API and other web-based technologies, MapObjects, ER Mapper) General word processing, documentation and administration (Microsoft Office, EndNote, LaTeX, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Lotus Notes etc.) Interests Travel and photography (documented travels in over 50 countries), cartography and spatial data visualisation, geopolitics, European history, graphical and web design, typography, skiing, mountaineering, cycling. Languages English (fluent)) Hungarian (fluent, mother tongue) Romanian (fluent) Swedish (fluent) German (fluent) French (fluent) Italian ( Intermediate) Publications L. Brocca; F. Melone; T. Moramarco; W. Wagner; V. Naeimi; Z. Bartalis; S. Hasenauer (2010) Improving runoff prediction through the assimilation of the ASCAT soil moisture product Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 14, p. 1881–1893, doi:10.5194/hess-14-1881-2010. V. Naeimi,Z. Bartalis; W. Wagner (2009) ASCAT Soil Moisture: An Assessment of the Data Quality and Consistency with the ERS Scatterometer Heritage Journal of Hydrometeorology, Special Collection on Catchment-scale Hydrological Modelling and Data Assimilation (CAHMDA), DOI: 10.1175/2008JHM1051.1. Naeimi, V.; K. Scipal; Z. Bartalis;S. Hasenauer; W. Wagner (2009) An Improved Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithm for ERS and Metop Scatterometer Observations IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 47, p. 1999–2013, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2011617. C. Kuenzer; D. Zhao; K. Scipal; D. Sabel; V. Naeimi; Z. Bartalis; S. Hasenauer; H. Mehl; S. Dech; W. Wagner (2009) El Niño southern oscillation influences represented in ERS scatterometer-derived soil moisture data Applied Geography, Vol. 29, p. 463–477. C. Albergel; C. Rüdiger; D. Carrer; J.-C. Calvet; N. Fritz; V. Naeimi; Z. Bartalis; S. Hasenauer (2009) An evaluation of ASCAT surface soil moisture products with in-situ observations in southwestern France Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 13(2), p. 115–124. Z. Bartalis; W. Wagner; V. Naeimi; S. Hasenauer; K. Scipal; H. Bonekamp; J. Figa; C. Anderson (2007) Initial soil moisture retrievals from the METOP-A Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 34, L20401, doi:10.1029/2007GL031088. A. Bartsch; R. Kidd; W. Wagner; Z. Bartalis(2007) Temporal and spatial variability of the beginning and end of daily spring freeze/thaw cycles derived from scatterometer data Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 106(3), p. 360–374. Z. Bartalis; K. Scipal; W. Wagner (2006) Azimuthal anisotropy of scatterometer measurements over land IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 44(8), p. 2083–2092.

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