Clémence Goyens
Senior Research Scientist
Keywords
Optical remote sensing data processing and validation
Marine optics and radiometry
Radiative transfer modeling
Water quality
ABOUT
Clémence is a remote sensing scientist specialized in optical remote sensing across coastal, open ocean, Arctic, and inland water environments. She is passionate about processing and analyzing large datasets, from in situ optical properties and radiometry to global ocean satellite imagery, to address wide-ranging research questions in aquatic sciences.
CURRICULUM
03/2024 – present: Senior research scientist, MarSens, Ghent University, Belgium
2018 – 2024: Aquatic remote sensing scientist, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium
2014 – 2017: Postdoctoral researcher, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) - Université Laval, Canada
2010 – 2013: Ph.D. in optical remote sensing. Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Geosciences (LOG), France
2010: Climate scientist, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Belgium
2007 – 2009: MSc. in Earth Observation and modeling. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Belgium
2007: Spatial scientist, CSIRO, Tropical Ecosystem Research Centre (TERC Darwin), Australia
2006: Spatial scientist, Ghent University, Belgium
2001 – 2005: MSc. Geography. Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium
AWARDS AND HONOURS
2022: Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO) Dissemination and support project GLAD4ADRINK (grant number: SR/36/343)
2014: Post-doctoral European Spatial Agency (ESA) Living Planet Fellowship award, COLORICE project