The Scientific and Technical Advisory Board is composed of international experts who assist 52°North in strategic decisions regarding its 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. Krzysztof Janowicz
Chair
Full Professor at the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria
Prof. Dr. Lars Bernard
Full Professor for Geoinformatics at the Chair of Geoinformatics, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Dr. ir. Rolf A. de By
Associate Professor at the Department of Geo-information Processing, the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation and the UT-I-ITC-STAMP, ITC, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Christian Elfers
Chief Technology Officer at con terra GmbH, Münster, Germany
Prof. Dr. Michael Gould
Global Education Manager, Esri, Redlands, California and Associate Professor, Information Systems, University Jaume I, Castelló, Spain
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. Edzer Pebesma
Full Professor for Geoinformatics and Codirector of the Institute for Geoinformatics, Universität Münster, Germany
Prof. Dr. Andreas Wytzisk-Arens
President of the Bochum University of Applied Sciences, Bochum, Germany