Vitae & Awards
Professional biography variants and academic recognitions
Biographical Sketches
1-liner vitae
Gustau Camps-Valls is a Physicist interested in AI and causality for the Earth sciences.
1-paragraph vitae
Gustau Camps-Valls is a Full Professor in Electrical Engineering at the Universitat de València. He is an expert in AI and causal inference for geosciences and remote sensing data analysis, having published extensively. He has a Ph.D. in Physics and is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He has received two European Research Council (ERC) grants (Consolidator and Synergy) and holds a Hirsch's index h = 100+ (Google Scholar). He has also been a Highly Cited Researcher since 2020. Gustau has achieved significant recognition with numerous awards and honors, including IEEE Fellow (2018), ELLIS Fellow (2019), AGU Fellow (2025), IEEE David Landgrebe Award (2024), Fellow of the Academia Europaea (AE) and from the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc), from which he received the Blaise Pascal Medal (2025). He also received the Carl-Zeiss-Humboldt Research Award in 2025.
IEEE-like vitae
Gustau Camps-Valls (IEEE Fellow '18, ELLIS Fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, PhD in Physics) is a Full Professor in Electrical Engineering at the Universitat de València. He is interested in the development of AI and causal inference algorithms for modeling and understanding the Earth system. He is an author of 350+ journal papers, 400+ conference papers, 25 international book chapters, and editor of 6 books on kernel methods and deep learning, with emphasis on geosciences and remote sensing data analysis.
He holds a Hirsch's index h = 100+ (Google Scholar), has been a Highly Cited Researcher since 2020, and was identified by Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch as a "Fast Moving Front" researcher. He received two European Research Council (ERC) grants: an ERC Consolidator grant (2015) and an ERC Synergy grant (2019).
He has achieved significant recognition with numerous awards and honors, including IEEE Fellow (2018), ELLIS Fellow (2019), IEEE David Landgrebe Award 2024, Fellow of the Academia Europaea (AE) and the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc).
Longer vitae
Gustau Camps-Valls (born 1972 in València) is a Physicist and Full Professor in Electrical Engineering in the Universitat de València, Spain, where lectures on machine learning, remote sensing and signal processing. He is the Head of the Image and Signal Processing (ISP) group, an interdisciplinary group of 50+ researchers working at the intersection of AI for Earth and Climate sciences.
Gustau is interested in developing AI and causality methods to tackle relevant environmental and societal problems. From detecting and forecasting extreme events (like droughts, heatwaves and floods), to improve Earth models with AI emulation and novel parameterizations, as well as explaining complex systems like the interconnected Earth with causality and equation discovery. In the last years, Gustau has been at the forefront of AI for tackling relevant socio-economic problems for the humanitarian sector, like modeling and understanding climate-induced migrations, differential vulnerability aggravated by climate change, and the impact of humanitarian aid in food crises. You can get a visual feeling of what I do in this video.
Prof. Camps-Valls published over 350+ peer-reviewed international journal papers, 400+ international conference papers, 25 book chapters, and 6 international books. He has an h-index of 100+ with 45000+ citations in Google Scholar. He was listed as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2011, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; currently has 15 «Highly Cited Papers» and 1 «Hot Paper», Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch identified his activities as a Fast Moving Front research (2011) and the most-cited paper in the area of Engineering in 2011, received the Google Classic paper award (2019), and Stanford Metrics includes him in the top 2% most cited researchers of 2017-2023. He publishes in technical and scientific journals like Nature, Nature Communications, Science Advances, and PNAS.
He has been Program Committee member of international conferences (IEEE, SPIE, EGU, AGU), and Technical Program Chair at IEEE IGARSS 2018 and general at AISTATS 2022. He served in technical committees of the IEEE GRSS & IEEE SPS, as Associate Editor of 5 top IEEE journals, and in the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program of the GRSS (2017-2019). He has given 100+ talks, keynote speaker in 10+ conferences, and (co)advised 15+ PhD theses.
He coordinated/participated in 60+ research projects. He assisted the aerospace industry in Advisory Boards; Fellow Consultant of the ESA PhiLab (2019) and member of the EUMETSAT MTG-IRS Science Team. He is habitual panel evaluator for H2020 (ERC, FET), NSF, China and Swiss Science Foundations.
He coordinates the ‘Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Sciences' research program of ELLIS. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow member (2018) and to ELLIS Fellow (2019). Prof. Camps-Valls is the only researcher receiving two European Research Council (ERC) grants in two different areas: an ERC Consolidator (2015) and ERC Synergy (2019) grants. In 2022 was elevated to Fellow of the Academia Europaea (AE), Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc), AGU Fellow (2025), and Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). He received the Blaise Pascal Medal 2025 in Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Carl-Zeiss-Humboldt Research Award in 2025.