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Jonas Siethoff

Contact
Room: IA E6/55
Tel.: +49 (0)234 32-18255
Mail: jonas.siethoff@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Unit: Urban Remote Sensing

PhD student


Jonas Siethoff

Curriculum vitae

Since 12/2025
Research Associate in the Urban Remote Sensing Working Group at Ruhr University Bochum

09/2025 – 11/2025
Student Research Assistant in the Urban Remote Sensing Working Group at Ruhr University Bochum

08/2022 – 09/2025
Student Research Assistant in the Department of Geoinformation and Monitoring at the Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development (ILS), Dortmund

04/2022 – 11/2025
Master of Science in Geography with a specialisation in Geomatics
Master’s thesis title: Towards Sustainable Land Take: A Spatially Explicit Prediction of Future Built-Up Areas Using Deep Learning and Long Time-Series Data

09/2021 – 03/2022
Bachelor of Engineering in Geoinformatics at Bochum University of Applied Sciences, without degree (change of subject)

02/2021 – 04/2021
Internship at the Office for Land Holdings, Surveying and Cadastre, the Office for Environmental Protection and the Office for Urban Development and Statistics of the City of Cologne

09/2019 – 07/2022
Student Assistant in IT 1st-level support at the IT Center of the University of Cologne (ITCC)

10/2016 – 09/2021
Bachelor of Science in Geography at the University of Cologne
Bachelor’s thesis title: Determining impervious surface area in the city of Cologne – A GIS analysis based on high-resolution orthophotos and ALKIS data

10/2015 – 09/2016
Two-subject Bachelor of Arts in German Language and Literature & Geography at the University of Cologne, without degree (change of subject)

Publications

 

Projects

09.2025 - 09.2026. COINS (Co-developing innovations for sustainable land management in West African smallholder farming systems) - https://www.geographie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/projekte/00227-coins.html.en

Talks

11 February 2025. Better Understanding Urban Heat: A Multitemporal and Multivariable Approach for LST Hot Spots. Presentation at the Dortmund Conference 2025 “Planning in Times of Multiple Crises”, Dortmund, Germany.

Theses

I supervise bachelor’s theses on methods in remote sensing, geospatial artificial intelligence and GIS. If you have ideas related to these topics, please feel free to contact me.

Research Interests

  • Spatio-temporal prediction of various aspects in the human–environment system
  • Geodata-based artificial intelligence
  • Remote sensing
  • GIS