GFZ German research centre for geo sciences

Dr. Josefine Wilms

Josefine Wilms
Building 401, Room 1.05 (Bueroraeume)
Claude-Dornier-Str. 1
82234 Weßling

Function and Responsibilities:

Applied mathematician performing gravity field retrieval simulations

Research Interests:

Gravity field retrieval and processing optimisation
Data science and Applied Machine Learning with scarce data

Career:

2021-Present Scientist at GFZ
2019-2020 Research Scientist at Deltares, The Netherlands
2015-2018 Sr. Research Scientist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa.
2013-2015 Post doctoral researcher at Mechatronical Engineering, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
2008-2012 University of Stellenbosch, South Africa: Part time lecturer for Dynamics second year course and Computational Fluid Dynamics post-graduate course, Applied Mathematics

Projects:

March 2019 – 2021

  • Development of SNAP pipeline in python for the calculation of land subsidence from SAR Sentinel1 images.

  • Modelled suspended particle matter in the Wadden sea using stacked ensemble machine learning methods.

  • Developed Flask based API for doing pre-processing for chemical and biological input components to the DFlowFM model.

  • Developed and deployed docker containers for Jupyter notebooks on Azure. These notebooks were for online courses at Deltares.

  • Developed a gradient boosting based machine learning model to predict overtopping at coastal structures.

December 2015-February 2019

  • Developed a river routing model to simulate the movement of surface runoff to oceans on a global scale. 

  • Constructed an interface that converts weather data from three different sources into a standard format and combines these into a single database. 

  • Constructed models to predict overtopping at coastal structures with OpenFOAM (IHFoam).

  • Trained feedforward and recurrent neural networks on river discharge data.

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