René Westerholt
Professor at Technische Universität Dortmund
Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolRené Westerholt is a geoinformation scientist and Professor at TU Dortmund with eight years of academic and interdisciplinary experience bridging geoinformatics, spatial analysis, and software development. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from Heidelberg and an M.Sc. in Geoinformatics from Osnabrück, and has held research and teaching posts at Warwick, Harvard, and Heidelberg. His research focuses on estimating spatial autocorrelation from user-generated content and shifting quantitative analysis from abstract space to people-centred places. René combines rigorous methodological work with practical software engineering in conservation and agricultural projects, reflecting a rare blend of theoretical depth and applied tool-building. An active member of key geoinformatics societies and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he brings an interdisciplinary perspective enriched by international collaborations.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Geography, Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Geography at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Geoinformatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Geoinformatics at Universität Osnabrück
German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
weighting10
missing-data10
hierarchical10
spatial9
statistics8
julia8
spatial-analysis8
wps7
open-data7
geotools7
shapefile6
science6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rwesterh/spdep
Jan 2018 - Apr 2024
Contributions:46 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 4 months
rwesterh/giscience.net-data
Aug 2018 - Oct 2022
Open Data about Geographical Information Science (GIScience)
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
wpswikimediasciencewfsopendata
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