ETH Medal Awarded to Mostafa Kiani Shahvandi for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis
Mostafa Kiani Shahvandi has been awarded the ETH Zurich Silver Medal for his outstanding doctoral thesis titled "Geodetic Time Series Analysis and Prediction Using Machine Learning" (supervised by Prof. Benedikt Soja).
This prestigious distinction is awarded to only about 8% of doctoral theses at ETH Zurich and includes a financial prize.
During his PhD in the field of geodesy, Mostafa focused on time series analysis and prediction using machine learning techniques. His research explored temporal variations in the Earth’s rotation, driven by geophysical processes throughout the Earth system—including contributions from the climate, mantle, and core.
His growing fascination with climate dynamics during his doctoral work led him to pursue this field in his postdoctoral research. He was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc Mobility Fellowship to advance research at the intersection of AI, weather, and climate analysis. His current work investigates mass redistribution in the Earth system and sea level rise resulting from the melting of polar ice sheets, mountain glaciers, and changes in terrestrial hydrology.
You can find Mostafa's thesis here: external page https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000700534
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