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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

Senior researcher at ISRIC World Soil Information Institute

Internationaal Bodemreferentie en Informatie Centrum - ISRIC, Wageningen UR 

• Tel: +31-(0)317-483735
• E-mail: tom.hengl@wur.nl

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

The complete list of publications

Involvement in research, education and projects

Projects:

• 2010--??: GlobalSoilMap (40-50%); SOTER (20-30%) and support ISRIC (database systems, ICT and the like; 20-30%).
• 2007--2010: 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;
• Keynote lecturer at the Spatial Statistics 2011 conference in Enschede;
• >60 citations for the article "A generic framework for spatial prediction of soil variables based on regression-kriging" (based on Google Scholar);
• More than 10k downloads (from unique IPs) of the "Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping";
• Two nominations for the best paper awards for Pedometrics;
• See also: publication statistics based on Google Scholar;

Home address

• Plevierenweide 50, 6708 BX Wageningen
• J.J. Strossmayer 172, 31000 Osijek - HR, tel: ++385-31-303-071

Curriculum vitae

Tomislav Hengl (born in Osijek, Croatia on January 15th, 1974) is a senior researcher at the ISRIC - World Soil Information institute in Wageningen specialized in geostatistics, spatio-temporal data modeling, geomorphometry, automated and web-mapping applications. He completed gymnasium for Natural sciences and mathematics in 1992 and study of Forestry at Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb in 1996. In February 2000 graduated (with distinction) MSc study on ITC, Enschede within course "Geoinformation for sustainable soil resource management". Defended a PhD thesis "Pedometric mapping" in September 2003. In March 2004 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. From October 2007 to September 2010 worked at the University of Amsterdam in the research group of prof. Willem Bouten. Tomislav regularly organizes summer schools for PhD students called GEOSTAT that focuses on important aspects of statistical analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal data using open source / free GIS tools: R, SAGA GIS, GRASS GIS, FWTools, Google Earth and similar. He regularly follows international conferences Pedometrics, Digital Soil Mapping, Accuracy, Geoenv and similar.

Important dates

• 01.09.2010. Joined the ISRIC World Soil Information institute in Wageningen.
• 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:

• vice-chair Digital Soil Mapping
• vice-chair Geomorphometry
• Pedometrics of IUSS
• Geocomputation
• Spatial Accuracy

Activities & Interests

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

Other data

Has a four years older brother (Berislav). Parents Mirjana (economist) and Ivan (lawyer) both retired.