Stefanie Lumnitz
Policy Officer (Seconded Expert) at European Commission
Frascati, Lazio, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolStefanie Lumnitz is a spatial data scientist and policy officer with eight years of experience applying machine learning, remote sensing and big-data analytics to earth observation challenges. She has progressed from research and teaching roles to applied engineering at ESA, where she led open-source re-engineering of mission software like BioPAL and contributed to cloud-native EO processing concepts. Her work blends scientific software engineering, data quality, and visualization—evidenced by contributions to PySAL’s plotting utilities and the splot package for interactive geospatial exploration. Now seconded to the European Commission, she translates technical EO expertise into policy and programmatic impact across Horizon Europe initiatives. Colleagues know her for combining rigorous reproducible workflows with an eye for clear visual storytelling of complex spatial data.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ludwig Maximilian University of MunichMSc. (hons), Forestry, MSc. (hons), Forestry at The University of British ColumbiaBSc. (minor), International Land Management, BSc. (minor), International Land Management at Technical University of Munich
Github Skills (9)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
python10
spatial-analysis10
matplotlib10
numpy9
documentation9
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pysal/pysal
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
PySAL: Python Spatial Analysis Library Meta-Package
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 20 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Stefanie focused on improving and documenting the `mplot` function, a core component for creating Moran scatterplots within the PySAL library. Their contributions included refactoring the code to use the Matplotlib object-oriented API, adding comprehensive documentation with examples, and fixing type descriptors. They also added tests to ensure the proper functionality of `mplot` and made some minor fixes related to imports and a typo in a related documentation file.
meta-packagepythonspatial-analysispysalspatial
conda-forge/splot-feedstock
Jul 2019 - Jul 2021
A conda-smithy repository for splot.
Contributions:1 review, 12 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years
condasmithy
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