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Martin Behnisch
Professor Martin Behnisch is head of the 'Spatial Information and Modelling' research area at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER). Additionally, he holds a professorship in the same field at Dresden University of Technology (TUD). Since 2015, he has been an organiser of the International Land Use Symposium (ILUS). His key competencies are related to spatial data science, built environment and land system science, with extensive experience in leading and coordinating collaborative research projects.
He received his PhD (summa cum laude) from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, undertook a postdoc at ETH Zurich and has been a visiting scientist at Concordia University Montréal (Canada), Yonsei University (Korea) and Tianjin University (China). He has received and worked on DFG research grants.
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