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Peter holds a PhD in Geography (Dr. rer. nat. - summa cum laude) and has a background in Geoinformatics, Remote Sensing, Open Science, A.I. and Digital Research Infrastructures. He believes in the great outdoors, travel, gardening and homemade BBQ.

• Studied at the University of Würzburg and the University of Texas at Austin.

• Work experience at Leibniz and Helmholtz research institutes, the satellite remote sensing industry and a UNESCO Geopark.

• Founder of the startup FUKENGRUEVEN, supported by the Bavarian FLÜGGE programme.

• Lecturer at the University of Potsdam, Humboldt University Berlin and Hochschule Neubrandenburg.

• Evangelist for the international Open Geospatial Community.

• Elected charter member of the international OSGeo Foundation and also Vice President of Open GeoScience.

• Open Source GRASS GIS project steering commitee (2016 - 2021).

• Member of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), RDA Deutschland e.V., Wikipedia and FOSSGIS e.V.

• Member of the European Geoscience Union (EGU) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

• Elected convener for the EGU programme group “Data, Software and Computing Infrastructures across Earth and Space Sciences” (ESSI2) and invited speaker for the Great Debate 2022 on Open Science.

• NSF Geospatial Software Institute conceptualization project.

• Eastern Partnership on E-Infrastructure (EaPEC by GÉANT) in Armenia, Moldova and Belarus.

• Editor for the Open Source GIS chapter of the Springer Handbook of Geographic Information (2nd. Ed.).