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Alexander Zipf Werdegang

  • Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf ist seit Ende 2009 Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für GIScience (Geoinformatik) an der Universität Heidelberg (Department für Geographie). Er ist Mitglied des Zentrums für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (IWR) und Gründungsmitglied des Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE).
    Von 2012-2014 war er Geschäftsführender Direktor des Geographischen Instituts der Universität Heidelberg. In den Jahren 2011-2012 war er Prodekan der Fakultät für Chemie und Geowissenschaften der Universität Heidelberg. Derzeit ist er mit dem Aufbau des Heidelberger Instituts für Geoinformationstechnologie (HeiGIT) beschäftigt.
  • 2012 -2018 war er Sprecher des Graduiertenkollegs "CrowdAnalyser - Spatio-temporal Analysis of User-generated Content". Darüber hinaus ist er Mitglied im Editorial Board mehrerer Fachzeitschriften und organisierte eine Reihe von Konferenzen und Workshops. 2012-2015 war er regionaler Herausgeber des ISI Journal Transactions in GIS (Wiley). Derzeit ist er assoziierter Herausgeber der internationalen Zeitschrift Geo-spatial Information Science (GSIS) von Taylor & Francis.
  • Bevor er nach Heidelberg kam, leitete er den Lehrstuhl für Kartographie an der Universität Bonn und war zuvor Professor für Angewandte Informatik und Geoinformatik an der Fachhochschule Mainz. Er hat Mathematik und Geographie an der Universität Heidelberg studiert und seine Promotion am Europäischen Medienlabor EML in Heidelberg abgeschlossen, wo er der erste Doktorand war. Dort forschte er auch 3 Jahre lang als Postdoktorand weiter.

Mitgliedschaften

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Interdiziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (IWR) der Universität Heidelberg
AGILE - Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe
Member of the Extended Board of Directors of the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR)
Funding Member of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE)
Verband der Geographen an Deutschen Hochschulen (VGDH)
Heidelberger Geographische Gesellschaft (HGG)

Workshop Organization / Program Committee

  • Scientific Commitee: 6th Digital Earth Summit 2016. Bejing.
  • Program Committee: 3D GeoInfo 2009 - 4th International Workshop on 3D Geo-Information. Ghent, Belgium.
  • Scientific Comittee. ISPRS-workshop on Quality, scale and analysis aspects of urban city models. (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing). Lund, Sweden, 3-4.12.2009.
  • ISCRAM 2009, 6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Track Geo-information support, Göteborg, Sweden.
  • Deegree Day 2009. Bonn. Forchungszentrum Cesar. inkl. Workshop OpenStreetMap im Rheinland
  • Programm Committee: 2009 International Workshop on Theory and Applications Frontier of Location Based Services in cooperation with the The 3rd International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE09) Qingdao, China.
  • Programm Committee: 9th International Symposium on Web and Wireless GIS, W2GIS. Maynooth, Ireland.
  • Lokale Organisation: 6. Fachgespräch Ortsbezogene Dienste. Universität Bonn. September 2009.
  • Program Committee: Geoinformatik 2009, Osnabrück.
  • Program Committee: LocWeb 2009 - Second International Workshop on Location and the Web in Conjunction with CHI 2009, Boston. USA.
  • Programm Committee: 8th International Workshop on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS 2008). 11.-12.12.2008. Shanghai. China.
  • Scientific Committee: joint Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Management 2008: 3rd International China Workshop on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM-CHINA) and the 4th International Symposium on Geo-Information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM). Harbin. China.
  • Scientific Committee: 5th Symposium on Location Based Services & TeleCartography 2008. Salzburg, Austria 26-28. November 2008.
  • Scientific Committee: First International Workshop on Trends in Pervasive and Ubiquitous Geotechnology and Geoinformation Workshop at the GIScience conference, September 2008, Park City, Utah, USA
  • Programm Committee: IADIS Wireless Applications and Computing 2008 (WAC 2008) Conference. July 2008. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Scientific Committee: 3D Geoinfo 2007. The Second International Workshop on 3D Modelling. Delft, The Netherlands. 12-14 December, 2007
  • Programm Committee:  W2GIS'07 - 7th International Workshop on Web and Wireless GIS. November 28-29, 2007 in Cardiff, UK (hosted by the University of Glamorgan).
  • Programm Committee: GI-Forum. 2007. 2008. 2009. Salzburg. Austria 2009.
  • Programm Committee: ISCRAM 2008 Session TECH-03
  • Programm Committee: UMICS '07,the 5th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems. co-located with CAiSE '07 in Trondheim, Norway, June 11-12, 2007.
  • Programm Committee: WAC 2007. IADIS International Conference Wireless Applications and Computing 2007. Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Programm Committee:MDSGEO'06 - 1st International Workshop on Modern Decision Support in Geographical Domains: Models, Methods, and Tools September, 2-3, 2006 - Thessaloniki, Greece. to be held in conjunction with the 10th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS'2006
  • Programm Committee: UMICS '06, the 4th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Communication Systems, co-located with CAiSE in Luxembourg, June 5-6, 2006.
  • Programm Committee: 6th International Workshop on Web and Wireless GIS (W2GIS'06). December 4-5, 2006. Hong Kong. China.
  • Workshop Organizer: UbiGIS 2006 - Second International Workshop on Ubiquitous GI Services. In conjunction with GISCience - International Conference on Geographic Information Science - Münster, Germany. September 2006.
  • Workshop Organizer: Mobile Maps 2005. 19. September 2005.
  • Programm Committee: deegree day. 2006, 2007. 2008. Bonn. Germany. June 2006, 2007. 2008.
  • Programm Committee: 1st International Workshop on Web Portal-based Solutions for Tourism - IWWPST05 Focus: Decision Support Systems. November 8 and 9, 2005 Tampere, Finland.
  • International Review Committee: Spatial Cognition 2004 Frauenchiemsee Island, Bavaria, Germany from 11-13 October 2004. Organizer: The Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition.
  • Scientific Review Committe: IADIS Cognitive Performance Support (CPS) Conference within the IADIS Virtual Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS) conference.
  • Program Chair and Organizer: UbiGIS 2004. First International Workshop on Ubiquitous Geographic Information Services. (Topic: The relationship of GIS and Ubiquitous Computing). In conjunction with: Geoinformatics 2004 . 12th International Conference on Geoinformatics ; Geospatial Information Research: Bridging the Pacific and Atlantic. 7 -9 June 2004, Gvle, Sweden.
  • Program Committe: AGIT, Salzburg, Austria; since 2003.
  • Workshop Organizer: Alexander Zipf (FH Mainz) and Liqiu Meng (TU Munich): Design kartenbasierter mobiler Dienste. (Call for papers) Workshop auf der Konferenz. Mensch und Computer - Interaktion in Bewegung. Stuttgart. Germany. 2003.
  • Program Committe: Geoinformatics 2004. 12th International Conference on Geoinformatics ; Geospatial Information Research: Bridging the Pacific and Atlantic. 7 -9 June 2004, Gvle, Sweden.
  • Program Committe: Münsteraner GI-Tage 2004 Schwerpunkt: GI & Mobilitt Von der Forschung zur praktischen Anwendung
  • Scientific Committee: IT Conference. 2007. Malaka. Malaysia.
  • Program and Organizing Committee: GIS Day 2003. Heidelberg. 18. Nov. 2003.
  • Program and Organizing Committe: AGIT 2002, Schwerpunktthema: "Geoinformation Mobil", Salzburg, Austria, 3 - 5. 07.2002.
  • Program Committe: AIMS 2002 - Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems, Lyon, France, July, 22 2002, in conjunction with: ECAI 2002 (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence).
  • Program and Organizing Committee: GIS Day 2002. Heidelberg. 20. Nov. 2002.
  • Virtual Worlds in Realistic Visualization. Deep Map Workshop, EML, Heidelberg. 09. December 1999. (Together with V. Coors, FhG IGD

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