Peter Löwe
Editorial Board Member at WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolPeter Löwe is an IT and data infrastructure executive with 14 years of professional experience and a deep background in geoinformatics and open science. He leads IT strategy and research infrastructure at WZB Berlin while serving in senior community roles—Editorial Board Member at GIS-IDEAS, Programme Convener for EGU, and Vice President Open GeoScience at OSGeo—bridging academia, research institutes, and open-source communities. His career combines hands-on project delivery (from tsunami early-warning systems to satellite imagery projects) with leadership in e-science, development, and teaching, including lecturing on NASA Open Science. Trained as a geographer with a doctorate from Würzburg and time at UT Austin, he translates domain science into scalable digital infrastructures and reproducible research practices. Notably, he runs a long-standing geospatial consultancy (geomancers.net / gisix.com), reflecting an entrepreneurial streak alongside public-sector leadership. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic governance of data/software ecosystems and for advancing open, community-driven infrastructure across Earth and space sciences.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Geography, Geography at The University of Texas at AustinDr. rer. nat Geography, Dr. rer. nat Geography at The Julius Maximilians University of WürzburgAbitur, Abitur at Gymnasium MichelstadtGeopark - Ranger Nature Interpretation Tourism Ecology, Geopark - Ranger Nature Interpretation Tourism Ecology at IHK Darmstadt
English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (31)
sos8
wfs7
overlay7
gis6
doi6
osgeo6
engine5
mapserver5
geospatial5
geoserver5
wps5
geotools4
openstreetmap4
sarif4
ogc4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ploewe/MOSS
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
Transient repo for the rediscovered MOSS codebase + auxiliary files.
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 2 months
sarifauxiliarytransientmossperl
OSGeo/MOSS
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
Heritage archives of the first-ever Open Source GIS: Map Overlay and Statistical System (MOSS), containing its original codebase and help documentation.
Contributions:23 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 5 months
wcswpswfsheritageever
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