About
Jan Musiał, PhD specializes in application of satellite imagery in various environmental analyses such as: agriculture monitoring, cloud masking, soil moisture retrieval and climate change. He received Master of Arts diploma from the Inter-Faculty Studies in Environmental Protection at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Further, he continued his education at the postgraduate studies in Spatial Information Systems at the Warsaw University of Technology. Jan started his research career as a trainee at the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy. Further, he continued his research work as a PhD student of the Remote Sensing Group at the University of Bern in Switzerland. After obtaining the PhD diploma Jan held an honorary fellowship position at the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Madison in USA. After the fellowship, he held an associate professor position at the Remote Sensing Group of the Institute of Geodesy and Cartography in Warsaw in Poland. In 2014 he received an award from the Polish Ministry of Higher Education for outstanding young researcher. He also held twice the EUMETSAT visiting scientist position at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). Currently, Jan works as a Senior Data Scientist at the CloudFerro company which develops and operates large cloud computing infrastructures combined with large EO Data repository such as CREODIAS, Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE), Destin Earth Data Lake (DEDL), WEkEO, Climate Data Store (CDS), CODE-DE, EO LAB.
