Dr. André John is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Mine Surveying and Geodesy at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg. He studied Geoinformatics (Dipl.-Geoinf./M.Sc.) with a specialization in Geomonitoring. After some initial professional experience as software developer, he started working on a multi-partner research project in 2011, which deals with the application and integration of geostatistical methods to develop and implement a methodology for mining planning optimization. He received his doctorate (geoinformatics) at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg in 2014. He then initially worked again as a software developer on the development of customer-specific spatial data applications. In October 2015 he returned to the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, where he has been researching and teaching ever since. His major research fields are remote sensing, spatio-temporal data analysis and modeling and geographic information systems (GIS).