Personal profile
Research interests
Marc Rußwurm is Assistant Professor of Machine Learning and Remote Sensing at Wageningen University. His background is in Geodesy and Geoinformation, and he obtained a Ph.D. in Remote Sensing Technology at TU Munich. During his Ph.D., he visited the European Space Agency and the University of Oxford as a participant in the Frontier Development Lab in 2018, the Obelix Laboratory in Vannes, and the Lobell Lab in Stanford. He joined the Environmental Computational Science and Earth Observation Laboratory at EPFL in 2022, Switzerland as a postdoctoral researcher. His research interests are developing modern machine-learning methods for real-world remote sensing problems, such as classifying vegetation from satellite time series and detecting marine debris in the oceans. He is interested in domain shifts and transfer learning problems naturally arising from geographic data.
Education/Academic qualification
Ph.D. (Dr.Ing), Technical University of Munich
2018 → 1 Sept 2021
Award Date: 23 Mar 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EFPL)
Sept 2021 → Aug 2023
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Exploring plastic detectability on riverbanks using remote sensing
Maathuis, M. I., Rußwurm, M., Bochow, M. & van Emmerik, T. H. M., Aug 2026, In: Marine Pollution Bulletin. 229, 119751.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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NaT-ReX: Naturalness Assessment with Transformer-Based Reliable Explainability
Emam, A., Farag, M., Rußwurm, M. & Roscher, R., 2026, Pattern Recognition - 47th DAGM German Conference, DAGM GCPR 2025, Proceedings. Keuper, M. & Locatello, F. (eds.). Springer, p. 571-585 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 16125 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › Academic › peer-review
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River plastic hotspot detection from space
Pérez-García, Á., Amanda, G., López, J. F., Rußwurm, M. & van Emmerik, T. H. M., 20 Feb 2026, In: iScience. 29, 2, 17 p., 114570.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Self-supervised pre-training enables marine debris detection across sensors
Dalsasso, E., Rußwurm, M., Donner, C., Darmon, S., de Vries, R., Volpi, M. & Tuia, D., Jun 2026, In: Remote Sensing of Environment. 339, 10 p., 115391.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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A cross-sensor approach for marine litter detection with self-supervised learning
Dalsasso, E., Russwurm, M., Donner, C., de Vries, R., Volpi, M. & Tuia, D., 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
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Datasets
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Data and scripts underlying the publication: Exploring transferability of plastic-water hyacinth interaction and detection in rivers
Hagenbeek, G. (Creator), van Emmerik, T. H. M. (Creator), Rußwurm, M. (Creator) & Boonma, K. (Creator), Wageningen University & Research, 17 Nov 2025
DOI: 10.4121/f771da08-8143-4a4b-9ad6-c8e711812a63
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Data underlying: Exploring plastic detectability on riverbanks using remote sensing
Maathuis, M. (Creator), Rußwurm, M. (Creator), Bochow, M. (Creator) & van Emmerik, T. (Creator), Wageningen University & Research, 6 Nov 2025
DOI: 10.4121/3d24e304-27d2-4980-8a48-2c9ef1973124
Dataset
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WildCLIP: Scene and animal attribute retrieval from camera trap data with domain-adapted vision-language models
Gabeff, V. (Creator), Rußwurm, M. (Creator), Tuia, D. (Creator) & Mathis, A. (Creator), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 6 May 2024
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Activities
- 1 Oral presentation
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HD-4: Time Series Tutorial: Understanding Dynamics with Advanced Time-Series Processing Techniques
Pelletier, C. (Speaker), Rußwurm, M. (Speaker), Masiliunas, D. (Speaker) & Verbesselt, J. (Speaker)
7 Jul 2024Activity: Talk/presentation/lecture › Oral presentation › Academic
Press/Media
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Chameleon computer based intelligence Speeds up Article Characterization: Progressive Program Velocities Up Satellite Picture Investigation
24/01/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research › Professional
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Artificial intelligence system developed to identify plastics in oceans
24/11/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment › Popular
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Artificial Intelligence could aid humanity's effort to free Oceans from plastic, research shows
23/11/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment › Popular
Projects
- 2 Active
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Machine and transfer learning under distribution shifts for agricultural applications and food security
Nedungadi, V. (PhD candidate), Athanasiadis, I. (Promotor) & Rußwurm, M. (Co-promotor)
1/09/24 → …
Project: PhD
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Machine Learning Methods for Spatiotemporal Ecosystem Dynamics
Robin, C. (PhD candidate), de Beurs, K. (Promotor) & Rußwurm, M. (Co-promotor)
1/12/23 → …
Project: PhD