Education:

01/2024 — Present — Postdoc, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, Florida, US

2019 — 2023 — PhD (Remote sensing of coastal waters), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

2018 — MSc in Physical and Biogeochemical Oceanography, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France

2016 — MSc in Physical Oceanography, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

2015 — MSci in Atmosphere, Ocean and Continent, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Research Projects:

2018 — Master project “Satellite distribution of Sargassum rafts in relation with mesoscale circulation and biogeochemical environment in north Tropic Atlantic”, Supervised by Leo Berline, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France

2016 — Master project “Upwelling, nutrient salts and plankton communities of the Senegalese shelf”, supervised by Eric Machu, IRD, LPAOSF, Dakar, Senegal

Research Interests:

Remote sensing of the ocean, Machine learning, Algorithm design, Bio-physical coupled interactions.

Publications:

Hadjal M., Medina E., Gallego A., Ren J., McKee D. “An Artificial Neural Network Algorithm to Retrieve Chlorophyll A for Northwest European Shelf Seas” Remote Sensing, 2022, 14, 3353.

Hadjal M., McKee D., Patterson, R. “Neural networks to Retrieve in Water Constituents Applied to Radiative Transfer Models Simulating Coastal Water Conditions” Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 2023, 4, 973944.

Presentations:

Hadjal M., McKee D., Medina E., Gallego A., Ren J. “An Artificial Neural Network Algorithm to Retrieve Chlorophyll A for Northwest European Shelf Seas” Ocean Optics XXV, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, October 2022.

Field Experience:

December 8 – December 22, 2019, North Sea, Marine Scotland Science, R/V Scotia.

March 2020, Stonehaven weekly time series sampling, Marine Scotland Science.