Biography

'Andreas Littkopf holds a degree in agriculture (terrestrial ecology) from the Humboldt University in Berlin (1986) and a degree in business management (2000). After working as head of the department in a local environmental agency, he acted as Pre-Accession Adviser and residential Twinning Adviser in Poland and Slovenia implementing environment related EU directives. From 2007 he led the European Topic Centre for Land Use and Spatial Information (ETC/LUSI, 2007-2010) and the European Topic Centre for Spatial Information and Analysis (ETC/SIA) during 2011-2012. He also co-ordinated research activities of the University teams and was task manager in several FP7 projects related to earth observation and environmental information management. In July 2012 he started working at the Environment Agency Austria, where he was responsible for project development with European and international financial institutions and coordinated a Central Asian project on environmental monitoring. From 2015 he has been leading the European Topic Centre on Urban, Land and Soil systems and since 2022 the new ETC data integration and digitisation, which supports the EEA among others in implementing the Copernicus land monitoring program. Furthermore, he supports the development of remote sensing expertise in the European Neighbourhood East and participates as a data expert for monitoring Nature based solutions in H2020 projects.'