He received his PhD in Geographic Information Science from the Technical University of Vienna and has been teaching at various universities in Austria, Germany, and the United States. His research encompasses different aspects of spatial analysis, such as analyzing the spatial distribution of invasive termites in South Florida, or using crowd-sourced and social media data for the modeling of travel behavior in transportation networks. He has led multiple GIS research projects and received funding from Google, the Florida Department of Transportation, American Forests, and the metropolitan planning organizations of Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade Counties. Read Less