Alexander Jacob
Vice Head Of Institute at Institute for Earth Observation – Eurac Research
Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy
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Top SchoolAlexander Jacob is a remote sensing and geoinformatics leader combining deep academic training from KTH and TU Darmstadt with a pragmatic software background in Java, C++ and GNSS systems. As Vice Head of Institute and founder of the Advanced Computing group at Eurac Research, he builds operational Earth observation data pipelines and standards work—co-chairing the OGC GeoDataCubes SWG and representing Italy in GEO’s Data & Knowledge group. His career weaves research, teaching (award-winning at KTH), and industry stints from Trimble QA to backend development, giving him a rare ability to translate cutting-edge algorithms into production-ready services. He advises ESA and the European Commission on EO data management, and his work is notable for bridging image segmentation and large-scale data architectures for environmental monitoring.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree, Geoinformatics, Licentiate degree, Geoinformatics at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyVordiplom, Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Vordiplom, Geodesy and Geoinformatics at TU Darmstadt
German, English, Swedish, Italian, French
Github Skills (29)
restful-api10
api-client10
generator10
api10
sdk10
rest-client10
rest10
rest-api10
openapi10
api-server9
openapi-generator9
earth-observation8
api-specification7
python6
datacube6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Open-EO/openeo-wcps-driver
Dec 2017 - Jul 2020
A prototype implementation for WC(P)S backends
Contributions:296 commits, 61 PRs, 277 pushes in 2 years 8 months
prototypebackends
Open-EO/PSC
Oct 2020 - Jan 2026
openEO Project Steering Committee
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 5 years 4 months
committeeopeneosteering
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