Simon Scheper is the CEO of ‘Dr. Simon Scheper – Research | Consulting | Teaching’, Dähre, Germany, a company providing services as an external researcher, for pedological construction supervision, and teaching GIS-courses. In 2019, S. Scheper got a Ph.D. in environmental science from the University of Basel. He worked as a research associate at the Remote Sensing Unit of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany. His research interests are erosion modeling, soil protection, ecosystem services, geoinformatics, and cartography. S. Scheper is a member of the Soil Science Society of Switzerland and the German Federal Association of soils.