Our Scientific and Technical Advisory Board – a select group of international experts – assists us in strategic decisions regarding our research agenda, relevant methods and technologies. It evaluates the company’s activities on an annual basis and reports to the shareholders’ meeting.

Current board members

Prof. Dr. Edzer Pebesma
Chair

Full Professor for Geoinformatics and Codirector of the Institute for Geoinformatics, Universität Münster, Germany

Prof. Dr. Lars Bernard

Full Professor for Geoinformatics at the Chair of Geoinformatics, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Christian Elfers

Managing Director at con terra GmbH, Münster, Germany

dr.ing. Serkan Girgin

Head of Center of Expertise in Big Geodata Science, Associate Professor & Senior Researcher at Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, ITC University of Twente, The Netherlands

Prof. Dr. Michael Gould

Global Education Manager, Esri, Redlands, California and Associate Professor, Information Systems,  University Jaume I, Castelló, Spain

Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Janowicz

Full Professor at the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria

Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger

Chief Executive Officer, Technical and Scientific Managing Director & Head of the Research Department Cognitive Assistants at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Saabrücken, Germany

Prof. Dr. Andreas Wytzisk-Arens

President of the Bochum University of Applied Sciences, Bochum, Germany