Here we want once again to introduce you our team from Technical University Munich that created and that supervises this course.
Scientific Staff
Walter de Vries
Walter is professor and head of the chair of Land Management at the Technical University Munich. Moreover, he is director of the Master and PhD programs in Land Management and Land Tenure and Study Dean of the programs Geodesy and Geoinformatics. Walter holds a degrees in public administration and geodetic engineering from the Technical University of Delft. He focuses on responsible and smart land management and administration, using socio-technical as well as organizational methods; he has many years of experience in professional training and education in land issue. Walter participated in projects all around the world, usually in close collaboration with national land agencies and universities. Before Walter started at the Technical University Munich in 2015, he worked at the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) at the University of Twente, Netherlands. He gained experience as program director for the Geoinformation Management Program, as coordinator of different local courses on geospatial data infrastructures and as long-term on site team leader in projects. As head of the chair of land management, he initiated the development, guided the structure and provided content for the MOOC “Introduction of Land Management”.
Anna Schopf
Since 2013 Anna is scientific researcher at the chair of Land Management at the Technical University Munich. She is responsible for study coordination, international and national projects as well as lecturing. Her focus areas are land use planning, rural development as well as land grabbing and tenure security. Before her time at the university Anna worked two years in a private planning office in Carinthia, Austria and gained experience in rural development of alpine regions. Furthermore she spend one year in Brazil focusing on impact of deforestation of local water systems in the Atlantic Rainforest. Anna was responsible for content development and coordination of the here presented MOOC “Introduction of Land Management”.
Uchendu Eugene Chigbu
Eugene is a lecturer and researcher in land management at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He holds a PhD from the same university. He has research interest in land methods — the science of formulating land management approaches for societal transformations. His works focus on how to use land tools in addressing challenges in urban and rural settlements. He has co-authored publications in reputable journals, including Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability and Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. He is a contributor and co-editor of UN-Habitat’s global report on land tenure security. He is also the co-author of UN-Habitat’s operational guide on tenure responsive land-use planning which has been endorsed by the Global Land Tool Network and GIZ as a pro-poor tool for land use planning for developing countries. Eugene is a world Social Science Fellow and a member of the German Association of Surveying (the Society for Geodesy, Geo-Information and Land Management). Eugene supported the content development of our MOOC “Introduction of Land Management”
Florian Siegert
Florian is working at the Bavarian administration of surveying. From 2013 to 2017 he was staff member at the chair of Land Management at the Technical University Munich. His background is geodesy with the topics cadaster, spatial data, land consolidation and management. During his time at the chair he was lecturing land valuation, urban development and spatial data infrastructure. Florian supported the content development of our MOOC “Introduction of Land Management”
Student assistants
Isabelle Hirscher
Isabelle Hirsch is a master student in civil engineering at Technische Universität München with majors in building construction, timber engineering and energy efficient and sustainable building design and construction. Since 2016 she works at the chair of land management as scientific assistant. She supports the team with event organization and project development. For our MOOC course she was responsible for creating video transcripts, exercises and handouts.
Johanna Botello Bastos
Johanna Bastos has a bachelor degree in Chemical Engineer from Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia, also a specialization in Energy Resources Management from Colombia and recently finishes and reaches her Master in Land Management and Land Tenure at the Technische Universität München. Her research topic was related to large scale land base investments and their impacts on different aspects that influence changes in land tenure in rural areas in Colombia. Johanna has several years of experience working in projects in Latin-America related to environmental impact assessments, environmental compliance, energy efficiency, air quality monitoring systems, among other projects. Johanna supported the team with exercise development, transcripts and handout preparation.
Anthony Agboeze
Anthony is a master’s student in Land Management and Land Tenure at the Technical University of Munich. He previously obtained a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria. He was involved in World Bank-assisted housing enumeration and master plan review project for water supply in Enugu, Nigeria. He was also a project architect in the “Eko Atlantic Mega City Sea Reclamation” project in Lagos, Nigeria. Anthony is student assistant at the Chair of Land Management since 2016. Anthony supported our MOOC project with preparing the literature index, handouts as well as for producing video transcripts of the lecture series.
Bente Verheul
Bente is a master student of the Master program 'Transportation Systems' at the Technical University Munich. She holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from TU Delft, where she focused on Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics. Since then, she has been focusing more on sustainable development, mobility and urban planning. She worked as an intern at the Sustainable Mobility division of the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and joined the Chair of Land Management and Land Tenure as student assistant in 2017. She is in charge of the organization and administration of this MOOC.