The Scientific and Technical Advisory board comprised of international experts supports 52°North in strategic decisions concerning its research agenda, relevant methods and technologies. It annually assesses the company’s and the Network’s activities and reports on this to the shareholders assembly.

Current board members

Prof. Dr. Lars Bernard
Chair

Chair of Geoinformatics, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany

Prof. Dr. Edzer Pebesma

Institute for Geoinformatics, Westfaelische-Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Germany

Dr. ir. Rolf A. de By

Department of Geo-Information Processing, ITC, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger

Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany

Dr. Dawn Wright

Esri Inc, Redlands, USA.