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For Dr Žukovič, the fellowship presented an opportunity to moveback into academia following a number of years working in theprivate sector. He had previously conducted a study to modelthe thermodynamic properties of magnetic materials and wasable to transfer this knowledge to the spatial prediction problem.Dr Elogne, a national of the Ivory Coast, believes that thefellowship contributed signifi cantly to his professional development.Following completion of his second post-doctoral appointment,he is planning to return to Europe to look for a more permanentposition, in France. His fellowship was pivotal in the publicationof numerous papers that he co-authored with the other Fellows.In particular, it allowed him to explore his interest in modellingpetroleum reservoirs.Professor Ghosh was appointed visiting professor in the Spatstatproject. Funding for travel allowed him to combine his expertisewith that of the other team members. ‘The fellowship helped me toestablish academic contacts and to learn new research methodsin an area of mutual interest,’ says Professor Ghosh. ‘Sincereturning, I have continued to work with the team, and from myhome institution we continue to work at achieving our long-termgoal of providing automatic mapping functions.’The truly interdisciplinary nature of this work is refl ected in thecollaborative publications which have been produced. Eight journalarticles involving the Fellows and the coordinator have already beenpublished in peer-reviewed journals in a range of different disciplines,including statistical physics, signal processing, environmental sciencesand statistics. The team’s fi ndings have also been disseminated atinternational conferences. All of this attracted additional attention fromoutside the project, with the result that Professor Hristopulos receivedan invitation to present Spatstat’s fi ndings at the international statGisSummer School in Austria, and to the Department of Geographyat the John Hopkins University in the USA.Project acronymSpatstatFull project titleDevelopment of Spartan spatial random field models forgeostatistical applicationsType of grantTransfer of KnowledgeBudgetEUR 306 223Duration of project01-09-2005 - 31-08-2008Scientific disciplineEngineeringLead partnerProfessor Dionissios T. HristopulosDirector of Graduate StudiesDepartment of Mineral Resources EngineeringTechnical University of CreteGR-73 100 Chania - CreteTel. +30 28210 37688 // Fax +30 28210 37853Other partnersSamuel N’Dede Elogne, University of Alberta, Canada - MilanŽukovič, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Slovakia - Sujit Kumar Ghosh, NC StateUniversity, USA51