Research Experience
| Since 2019 | Juniorprofessor, TU Dortmund University Department of Spatial Planning |
| Since 2018 | Affiliated Researcher, Heidelberg University GIScience Research Group, Institute of Geography |
| 2018–2019 | Assistant Professor, University of Warwick Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies |
| 2013–2018 | Research Assistant, Heidelberg University GIScience Research Group, Institute of Geography |
| 2013 | Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Center for Geographical Analysis, Institute for Quantitative Social Science |
| 2011–2012 | Research Assistant, STAGU Osnabrück Steinbeis Transfer Centre for Applied Geosciences and Environmental Research |
Education
| 2013–2018 | Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Heidelberg University Thesis: The Analysis of Spatially Superimposed and Heterogeneous Random Variables Supervisors: Prof. Alexander Zipf, Prof. João Porto de Albuquerque Examiners: Prof. Ulrike Gerhard, Prof. Hans Gebhardt |
| 2010–2012 | M.Sc. Geoinformatics, Osnabrück University Thesis: A Push-Based Architecture for Asynchronous OGC Web Processing Services Supervisors: Prof. Bernd Resch, Prof. Martin Kada |
| 2007–2010 | B.Sc. Geoinformatics, Osnabrück University Thesis: Implementation of a location-based service for the visualization of site-specific information in local trains Supervisors: Prof. Manfred Ehlers, Dipl.-Geogr., Dipl.-Umweltwiss. Kai Behncke |
Practical Experience
| 2011–2017 | Software Developer Botanical Garden, Osnabrück University Development of mobile and web-based GIS applications |
| 2010–2011 | Software Developer Institute of Geography, Martin Luther University of Halle—Wittenberg Development of a web-based routing application |
Awards and Honours
| 2024 | 2nd place in the best short paper competition of the 27th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science (AGILE 2024) Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE), Glasgow, UK |
| 2024 | Top 10% full-text accesses within the first 12 months (‘A simulation study to explore inference about global Moran’s I with random spatial indexes’) Geographical Analysis, Wiley |
| 2019 | Dissertation Award Geoinformatics 2019 Runder Tisch GIS e.V., TU Munich |
| 2018 | First Prize, CDRC Data Challenge GISRUK’18 Conference, Leicester, UK |
| 2014 | Young Researchers Award 2013 North-German Society for Geoinformatics (GiN) |
| 2014 | International Mobility Grant Funding German Universities Excellence Initiative II |
| 2013 | PhD Scholarship State of Baden-Württemberg |
Professional Memberships
| Fellow | Royal Geographical Society, London, UK |
| Executive Committee Member | International Society for Spatial Methods, Perth, Australia |
| Member | Association for Geoinformatics, GeoIT and Navigation, Berlin, Germany |
| Member | German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and Geoinformation (DGPF), Stuttgart, Germany |
Invited Talks
| 2024 | Statistical challenges in analysing self-reported ambient geospatial data RGS–GISRUK Seminar Series Royal Geographical Society and GIS Research UK, London |
| 2024 | Methodological challenges in understanding everyday geographies through spatial analysis NURSS Seminar Series Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong |
| 2024 | Understanding everyday geographies from a GIScience perspective Colloquium of the Geoinformation and Monitoring Research Group Institut für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung (ILS), Dortmund |
| 2023 | Towards more-than-geometric spatial analysis Brown Bag Seminar Series Geographic Data Science Lab, University of Liverpool |
| 2023 | The nexus of spatial analysis and digital geographies GI-Forum Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster |
| 2022 | On the spatial analysis of ambient geospatial information Research Seminar LIESMARS, University of Wuhan |
| 2022 | Geographische Räume, neu konstruiert Conference »Wissen ordnen und entgrenzen – vom analogen zum digitalen Europa?« Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz |
| 2022 | On the spatial statistical analysis of urban user-generated geodata Research Seminar Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow |
| 2022 | Spatial amplifier filtering for analysing geosocial media data Dortmund Data Science Colloquium Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund University |
| 2021 | What is special about spatial data? Data Competence Network Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund University |
| 2020 | Spatial analysis in the digital revolution Research Day Spatial Information Processing and Modelling Group, TU Dortmund University |
| 2019 | Spatial analysis of geosocial media data – methodological remarks Geography Seminar Series School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol |
| 2018 | Places–analysing human urban experiences Workshop on ‘VGI and social media for the urban context and planning’ Z_GIS, University of Salzburg |
| 2018 | Geographic thinking in computing—a primer on spatial analysis Winter School on ‘Big Data Research in the Biosciences’ Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University |
| 2018 | Urban spatial heterogeneity—nuisance, or source of information? WISC Seminar Series Warwick Institute for the Science of Cities, University of Warwick |
| 2017 | Methodological challenges in the spatial analysis of georeferenced social media data ABCD GIS Series Center for Geographical Analysis, Harvard University |
| 2016 | Mining the ‘big noise’: Challenges and opportunities of social media analysis Closing COST Assembly Royal Geographical Society, London |
| 2016 | Spatial analysis of Twitter data WISC Seminar Series Warwick Institute for the Science of Cities, University of Warwick |
| 2016 | The mapping portal of the GE-Sell project Coordination Meeting GE_Sell Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, Bonn |
| 2015 | Mixed-scale spatial autocorrelation Forum GI Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, Osnabrück University |
| 2015 | Sampling and management of species in the national responsibility of Germany within the WIPs-De project Dialogforum Citizen Science Federal Foundation for the Environment, Osnabrück |
| 2014 | Peeling the onion—multiple geographic scale levels within tweets CrowdAnalyser Workshop 2014 Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing, Universität Heidelberg |
| 2013 | Multi-scale event detection on Twitter tweets Geography Colloquium Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University |
| 2012 | Using a geoportal in seed collection Joint Congress of the Consortia for Seeds and Plant Breeding Federal Association of German Plant Breeders, Osnabrück |