Markus Neteler
mundialis GmbH & Co. KG
CEO
Dr. Markus Neteler is the founder and managing director of mundialis. He is a Geographer and GIS professional since 1999. After having worked as a researcher in Italy for 15 years he moved back to Germany in order to join mundialis GmbH & Co. KG in Bonn as a partner and general manager. His main interests are remote sensing, analysis of big geodata and Free Software GIS development. In his years in Italy, he worked on risk mapping in EU and Italian projects related to eco-health and biodiversity with a focus on the extraction of environmental indicators from spatial time series. He is the author of a highly cited book, various book chapters, and over 70 peer-reviewed publications. Markus Neteler is project coordinator of GRASS GIS (https://grass.osgeo.org/) since 1997 and founding member of the former GRASS Anwender-Vereinigung e.V. (Germany, now FOSSGIS.de), the Italian GFOSS association, and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo.org, USA). In September 2006, he was honored with the international Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS). Markus Neteler has been participating as task leader in several European projects (FP6 EDEN, CEP Eulakes, FP7 Edenext, FP7 Eurowestnile, LExEM), and was leading several national and international projects. In mundialis he overlooks a series of remote sensing and GIS related projects.