DroneLab Personnel & Leadership

Our core team brings together operational leadership, field instrumentation engineering, and scientific leads across photogrammetry, boundary-layer meteorology, and environmental sensing.

Core Lab Team

Luc Girod
Operations Lead

Senior engineer and operations lead at DroneLab@UiO. Manages flight operations, regulatory compliance, training, photogrammetry & LiDAR processing pipelines, and GIS infrastructure.

📍 Room 201, Geologibygningen 🏛️ Official UiO Profile → ✉️ luc.girod@geo.uio.no
Norbert Pirk
Scientific Lead

Associate Professor and scientific lead at DroneLab@UiO. Focuses on ecohydrology, land-atmosphere trace gas exchange, greenhouse gas plume tracking, and UAV micro-meteorology.

📍 Room 226, Geologibygningen 🏛️ Official UiO Profile → ✉️ norbert.pirk@geo.uio.no
John Hult
Electrical & Field Engineer

Field instrumentation engineer specializing in custom hardware integration, sensor payloads (GPR, Gas Spectrometers), airborne electronics, and field deployment logistics.

📍 Department of Geosciences 🏛️ Official UiO Profile → ✉️ john.hult@geo.uio.no
Alexandru Hegyi
Postdoctoral Fellow

Postdoctoral researcher in geophysics, GIS, and aerial remote sensing. Specializes in applied geophysics, surface feature reconstruction, and spatial data integration.

📍 Department of Geosciences 🏛️ Official UiO Profile → ✉️ alexandru.hegyi@geo.uio.no
Alouette von Hove
Postdoctoral Fellow

Postdoctoral researcher developing probabilistic inversion frameworks and reinforcement learning algorithms for autonomous drone path planning and methane flux estimation.

📍 Department of Geosciences 🏛️ Official UiO Profile → ✉️ alouette.vonhove@geo.uio.no
Johan Agerup
PhD Candidate

PhD fellow working on active learning capabilities, hardware payload integration, machine learning for spatial data, and field mapping applications within the ACTIVATE team.

📍 Department of Geosciences 🏛️ Official UiO Profile → ✉️ johan.agerup@geo.uio.no
Matteo Crespin-Jouan
PhD Candidate

Doctoral research fellow working at the intersection of satellite Earth observation, UAV photogrammetry, probabilistic deep learning, and Earth system modeling.

📍 Room 217A, Geologibygningen 🏛️ Official UiO Profile → ✉️ matteo.crespin-jouan@geo.uio.no

General Enquiries & Collaboration

Have questions regarding drone bookings, custom flight planning, sensor integration, or research partnerships with DroneLab@UiO?

Contact drone-lab@mn.uio.no →