CV

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Contents 1 Personal data 2 Occupation 3 Involvement in research, education and projects 4 Carrier highs 5 Home address 6 Curriculum vitae 7 Important dates 8 Membership in Professional Societies: 9 Activities & Interests 10 Other data

Personal data

• Date and place of birth: 15.01.1974, Osijek, Croatia
• Citizenship: Croatian
• Professional degrees:
  • (BSc) Forestry, Faculty of Forestry Zagreb
  • (MSc) Geoinformation for Sustainable Soil Resource Management, ITC, Enschede
  • (PhD) Pedometric mapping, Wageningen University and ITC
• Other education: "Scientific writing" and "Presentation skill" courses given by Cressie communications at ITC

Occupation

Post-doctoral researcher Computational Geo-Ecology (CGE) Faculty of Science – Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Universiteit van Amsterdam

• Mail: UvA B2.34, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018 WV Amsterdam, NL
• Tel: +31-(0)20-5257379
• Fax: +31-(0)20-5257431
• E-mail: T.Hengl@uva.nl

Professional knowledge: spatio-temporal data analysis, geostatistics, mapping and monitoring of natural resources, geoinformation technologies (GIS)...

The complete list of publications

Involvement in research, education and projects

Projects:

• 2007--2011(??): EcoGRID: development of analysis procedures on species and multi-species data (e.g. trend analysis, spatio-temporal interpolation algorithms, visualisation techniques for multivariate data) for the recently completed 'National Database Flora & Fauna' in the Netherlands.
• 2005--2007: Monitoring the state of European soils (MOSES) - development of novel digital soil mapping techniques
• 1999--2003: PhD researcher at ITC, topic: "Pedometric mapping"; involved in evaluation of adequacy and usability of soil resource inventories in Croatia
• 2003--2005/2008: Website administrator of the pedometrics.org, Pedometrics society of IUSS spatial-accuracy.org, research group; geomorphometry.org, research group;

Courses:

• GEOSTAT 5-day training course for PhD students;
• Meetstrategieën (3e jaar BSc) - see also: Spatial prediction of soil moisture; Spatial interpolation exercises (NL);

Carrier highs

• Best paper award for the Computers and geosciences for year 2006;
• Two nominations for the best paper awards for Pedometrics;
• >60 citations for the article "A generic framework for spatial prediction of soil variables based on regression-kriging" (based on Google Scholar);
• See also: publication statistics based on Google Scholar;

Home address

• Bredeweg 15, 1098 BM Amsterdam
• J.J. Strossmayer 172, 31000 Osijek - HR, tel: ++385-31-303-071

Curriculum vitae

Tomislav Hengl was born in Osijek, Croatia on January 15th, 1974. He completed gymnasium for Natural sciences and mathematics in 1992 and study of Forestry at Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb in 1996. He started his MSc study on ITC in September 1998 within course "Geoinformation for sustainable soil resource management" and graduated with distinction in February 2000. He defended his PhD thesis "Pedometric mapping" in September 2003. In March 2004 he was promoted to the level of assistant professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Osijek. In June 2005, started a post-doctoral position at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy, and from October 2007, he has been employed at the University of Amsterdam in the research group of prof. Willem Bouten. He regularly follows international conferences Geocomputation, Accuracy, Geoenv and similar.

Important dates

• 01.11.2007. Entered Faculty of Science, Universitet van Amsterdam as a post-doctoral researcher.
• 12.10.2007. Received the 2006 Best Paper Award of Computers and Geosciences for paper "Choosing the right pixel size".
• 01.06.2005. Entered JRC, Ispra, Italy as a research officer.
• May, 2005. Visiting lecturer at University of University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna (BOKU).
• June-July, 2004. Visiting lecturer at University of University of Hohenheim.
• 25.03.2004. Promoted to the status of assistant professor.
• 17.09.2003. Defended a PhD thesis and received doctor and PE&RC postgraduate program diplomas.
• 29.07-12.08.2002. Visited "School of land, water and crop sciences", University of Sydney.
• 1-7.09.2001. Participated in Eurisy summer school on Environmental Security.
• March, 2000. Started the PhD study at ITC entitled "Pedometric Soil Survey Methodology".
• 25.02.2000. Graduated with distinction on ITC, MSc degree.
• February, 1997. Started the PhD study at ITC entitled "Pedometric Soil Survey Methodology".
• 13.12.1996. Graduates (BSc) in the area of terrestrial photogrammetry.
• 07.06.1996. Awarded with The Rectors price for the best student scientific work in the area of bio-technical sciences.
• October, 1995. Awarded as the best student in generation, based on the average score during the enrollment in the last year of study.

Membership in Professional Societies:

• Spatial Accuracy
• Geomorphometry
• Geocomputation
• Pedometrics of IUSS

Activities & Interests

Basketball (outdoor/indoor), reading popular science, international geographic

Other data

Has a four years older brother (Berislav). Parents Mirjana retired economist and Ivan lawyer employed in juristic department of central Hospital in Osijek.