Tesfaye Tessema is wearing a light blue shirt and has short black and grey hair.

Dr Tesfaye Tessema

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Computing and Engineering
tesfaye.temtimetessema@uwl.ac.uk

Tesfaye Tessema received a physics bachelor's degree from Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, in 2004 and an MSc degree in Geodesy (Civil Engineering) from Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 2013. In 2021, he received his PhD in Geophysics from the University of Bristol, England. The Michael Dreyfus PhD Alumni Scholarship supported the PhD. He had research visits at the University of Bristol in 2012 and 2015; and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in 2015. Since January 2023, he is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on "Theory and Applications of Remote Sensing Techniques and Methods (InSAR)" at the School of Computing and Engineering of the University of West London.

  • Qualifications

    • BEd in Physics (Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia)
    • MSc in Geodesy - Civil Engineering (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)
    • PhD in Geophysics (University of Bristol, England)
       

  • Awards

    University of Bristol Colston Student Grant, the Bristol Alumni Student Travel Grant

  • Memberships

    American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Teaching

He has been involved mainly in research works; however, he has participated in teaching activities as a demonstrator (teaching assistant) along with his PhD research at the University of Bristol.

Research

Member of:
The Faringdon Centre for Non-Destructive Testing

His research focuses on Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) applications and methods for Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) techniques for civil and environmental engineering. He is interested in applying Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) for civil structure monitoring.

He has participated in projects aimed at geoscience applications. He had a research assistant position (part-time) at the University of Leeds (in 2017) and the University of Bristol (in 2020). He has worked in the Geological Survey of Ethiopia as a Geophysicist (2005-2011); and a research associate at IGSSA, Addis Ababa University (2014-2016).

  • Research and publications

    Tesfaye Tessema, Stephen Uzor, Dale Mortimer, Fabio Tosti, (2023), "Estimation of tree height using radar remote sensing in urban settings: a preliminary result," Proc. SPIE 12734, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications XIV, 127340O (19 October 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2684325 

    Tesfaye Tessema, Valerio Gagliardi, Luca Bianchini Ciampoli, Fabio Tosti, (2023),"InSAR for dielectric constant estimation of pavements: a feasibility study," Proc. SPIE 12734, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications XIV, 127340P (19 October 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2684365 

    Valerio Gagliardi, Antonio Napolitano, Tesfaye T. Tessema, Fabio Tosti, Andrea Benedetto, (2023), "Satellite remote sensing for transport infrastructure monitoring at the land-sea interface," Proc. SPIE 12734, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications XIV, 127340L (19 October 2023);https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2684312 

    T Temtime, J Biggs, E Lewi, A Ayele (2020). Evidence for Active Rhyolitic Dyke Intrusion in the Northern Main Ethiopian Rift from the 2015 Fentale Seismic Swarm Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.

    E Knappe, R Bendick, C Ebinger, Y Birhanu, E Lewi, M Floyd, R King, G Kianji, T Temtime, et.al (2020) Accommodation of East African Rifting across the Turkana Depression Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.

    T Temtime, J Biggs, E Lewi, I Hamling, T Wright, A Ayele. (2018) Spatial and temporal patterns of deformation at the Tendaho geothermal prospect, Ethiopia. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.

  • Conferences

    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 2021, T45A-0206 “Velocity Field and Strain Rate Distribution in the Main Ethiopian Rift from InSAR and GNSS" T Tessema, J Biggs, J Weiss, M Lazecky. (Oral Presentation)

    Geological Society of America (GSA), 2020, New Insights into the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Magmatism within Mature Continental Rifts (Invited Presentation), BIGGS, Juliet, GOTTSMANN, Jo, TEMTIME, Tesfaye, LEWI, Elias and AYELE, doi: 10.1130/abs/2020AM-357107. (Oral presentation)

    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 2018, Magmatic Intrusion and Its Interaction with a Volcano Centre in Main Ethiopian Rift, TT Tessema, J Biggs, E Lewi, AA Wondem. (Oral Presentation)

    AGU Fall Meeting, 2017, Magma-Tectonic Interactions in the Main Ethiopian Rift; Insights into Rifting Processes, T Greenfield, D Keir, T Tessema, R Lloyd, J Biggs. (Oral presentation)

  • Research degree supervision

    Satellite Remote Sensing (InSAR) and GNSS for Civil infrastructure and Environmental monitoring.