Sven Schade
Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Editor-in-chief International Journal for Spatial Data Infrastructure Research (IJSDIR)
Italy

Biography
Sven Schade is a geospatial information scientist with a special interest in knowledge extraction from (big) data, multi-disciplinary interoperability, and open innovation. Since September 2013, he is working as a scientific officer for the Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), where he already worked for three years as a post-doc (2009-2012). He was employed by the European Environment Agency (EEA) as project manager for the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS). In his early career, Sven spent ten years with the Institute for Geoinformatics (IfGI) of the University of Muenster - where he contributed to numerous national and European-level research projects in the area of semantic interoperability. Sven is the Editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Spatial Data Infrastructure Research (IJSDIR), council member of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), and has co-authored more than 90 publications in the fields of geospatial semantics, observation web and next-generation knowledge infrastructures.