European Facility For Airborne Research Dec. 26, 2024, 15:01
| Identity | |
| Family name | BALZTER |
| Name | Heiko |
| Nationality | Germany |
| Affiliation | |
| Name | University of Leicester |
| Department | Geography |
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| Institution description | The University of Leicester is a leading research intensive University delivering excellent teaching. It was ranked 169th out of over 10,000 universities by QS World University Rankings, placing Leicester in the top 2% of the world’s best universities. Its research impact, measured by citations per academic, is the sixth highest in the UK. The University has 23,000 students, an annual turnover of £230 million and 3,800 staff. The Department of Geography is part of the College of Science and Engineering and carries out interdisciplinary research into the nature and dynamics of human-environmental systems. In the league table by the Guardian newspaper, the Department was ranked 5th best in the country. 90% of its research was graded as international quality in the independent Research Assessment Exercise 2008. Leicester has one of the largest Earth Observation and remote sensing research groups in Europe, is home to the National Space Centre and the EU-funded European Centre of Excellence in Earth Observation Research Training GIONET. |
| Website | http://www.le.ac.uk/geography/staff/academic_balzter.html |
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| Address | University Road Leicester LE1 7RH UK |
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