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F. Franziskakis

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Florian Franziskakis 

Lecturer & PhD Candidate

 

EnviroSPACE Laboratory, Institute for Environmental Sciences

đź“Ť University of Geneva, Bd. Carl Vogt 66, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland

Phone: +41 (22)379.08.72

Email: florian.franziskakis(at)unige.ch

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I have a background in Earth Science and GIS, with 5 years of international experience (UN Environment & Group on Earth Observations) dealing with geospatial data, Earth observations and open science/open knowledge. Currently, I am a PhD candidate in the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) project “Earth from Base to Top” : https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/213539.

My work mainly involves applying open GIS solutions to reconstruct the deep-time (hundreds of millions of years back) Earth history, from plate tectonic models to palaeogeography and beyond, such as long-term Earth surface dynamics.

 

Recent publications

 

  • Franziskakis, F., Vérard, C., Richard, J. P., Castelltort, S., & Giuliani, G. (2026). The Palæo Data Cube: A Digital Earth of the past inspired by present-day Big Earth Observations Data practices. Big Earth Data, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2026.2723636

  • Franziskakis, F., & Giuliani, G. (2026). FAIR Research Data: A Practical Handbook for the Earth & Environmental Sciences (Version v1). GEO Knowledge Hub. https://doi.org/10.60566/n2q3g-fd094

  • Franziskakis, F., Vérard, C., Castelltort, S., & Giuliani, G. (2026). TopoChronia: A QGIS plugin for the creation of fully quantified palaeogeographic maps. Journal of Open Source Software, 11(118), 8812. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08812 

  • Moinat, L., Franziskakis, F., Vérard, C., Goldberg, D. N., & Brunetti, M. (2026). Biogeodynamics-Ice sheet-Geneva-MITgcm (BIG-MITgcm, v1.0): A simulation tool for exploring climate states with a representation of global ice sheets. Geoscientific Model Development, 19(10), 4357–4384. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-4357-2026 

  • Franziskakis, F., Vérard, C., Castelltort, S., & Giuliani, G. (2025). Comparing 545 Million Years of Sea-Level Change: New Insights from the TopoChronia QGIS Plugin. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVIII-4-W13-2025, 111–118. ISPRS ICWG IV/III/II. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-W13-2025-111-2025

 

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