Timo Balz

• Principal Investigator of ESA-MOST Dragon-4 project “Topographic Mapping – Validation” (No. 32278-1)

• Principal Investigator of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC - 中国自然科学基金) project "Multi-source high-resolution 4D SAR tomography for deformation mapping in urban areas" (No. 41174120).
• International Young Scientist Fellowship (Nr. 60950110351) of the NSFC
• First official foreign faculty member and foreign Associate Prof. of Wuhan University.

• Granted the project “Building damage assessment using post-disaster high-resolution SAR” (No. 20080440952) by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (中国博士后科学基金)
• Working at the project “高分辨率/极化干涉SAR数据处理关键技术与集成平台” (high-resolution/multi-polarization SAR data integration) by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China

• SARViz
  • Developing the real-time SAR simulation SAR¬Viz running on the GPUPorting SARViz on the Xbox 360 as training & education tool
• SAR Object Explorer:
  • Developing software tools for SAR image processing
• Teaching digital image processing and remote sensing

Junior consultant at a SAR campaign in Thailand (ThaiSAR)

PhD topic: “Real-time visualization of SAR effects on graphics hardware“

Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Chinese Scholarship Council

Combined bachelor and master in geography (Diplom-Geograph)