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
![Antonio Krüger Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger](https://52north.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/antoniokruger2-300x197.jpg)
Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger
Chair
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. Lars Bernard Prof. Dr. Lars Bernard](https://52north.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/7kswd_i_bernard_w-300x195.jpg)
Prof. Dr. Lars Bernard
Full Professor for Geoinformatics at the Chair of Geoinformatics, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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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 Christian Elfers](https://52north.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/elfers-c-300x200.png)
Christian Elfers
Chief Technology Officer at con terra GmbH, Münster, Germany
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Prof. Dr. Michael Gould
Global Education Manager, Esri, Redlands, California and Associate Professor, Information Systems, University Jaume I, Castelló, Spain.
![Krzysztof Janowicz Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Janowicz](https://52north.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/krzysztofjanowicz-300x200.jpg)
Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Janowicz
Full Professor at the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria.
![Edzer Pebesma Edzer Pebesma](https://52north.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/csm_tib-konferenz-2017_keynote-pebesma_c_tib-behrens_8b0201ed05_w2-300x195.jpg)
Prof. Dr. Edzer Pebesma
Full Professor for Geoinformatics and Codirector of the Institute for Geoinformatics, Universität Münster, Germany
![Andreas Wytzisk-Arens Prof. Dr. Andreas Wytzisk-Arens](https://52north.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/52n-6-aw-2-300x196.jpg)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Wytzisk-Arens
President of the Bochum University of Applied Sciences, Bochum, Germany.