The Scientific and Technical Advisory board is comprised of international experts who support 52°North in strategic decisions concerning its research agenda, relevant methods and technologies. It annually assesses the company’s activities and reports on this to the shareholders assembly.
Current board members
Prof. Dr. Edzer Pebesma
Chair
Full Professor for Geoinformatics and Codirector of the Institute for Geoinformatics, Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
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. Krzysztof Janowicz
Full professor for Geographic Information Science and Geoinformatics at the Geography Department and Co-director of the Center for Spatial Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
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