Alexandre Castagna
Postdoctoral Researcher
Keywords
Environmental optics
Optical remote sensing and adjacency correction
Radiative transfer simulations
Bio-optics
ABOUT
Alex is a marine ecologist who fell in love with optics, statistics and programming. His research interests include methodological aspects of in situ and remote radiometric measurements (air- or space-borne), and application of optical data for bio-optical modeling, inversion and ecosystem ecology. He believes in and practices open access to data, code and knowledge, and is an advocate for open peer-review.
CURRICULUM
2024–present: postdoctoral researcher, MarSens, Ghent University, Belgium
2017–2022: Ph.D. in Biology, Ghent University, Belgium
2015–2016: Ph.D. in Oceanography (incomplete), University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil
2011–2013: MSc. in Ecology and Evolution, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil
2006–2010: Biology/Ecology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
AWARDS AND HONOURS
2024: STEREO IV, Belgian Science Policy Office (BESLPO), Optical MonItoriNg and rEmote Sensing of parTiculate caRbOn in the North SEa (MINESTRONE) project.
2022: STEREO IV, Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO), Remote Sensing Adjacency Correction (RAdCor) project.Keywords: Environmental optics, optical remote sensing, adjacency correction, radiative transfer simulations, bio-optics
2018: Ocean Optics Conference Best Student Paper, awarded by The Oceanography Society.