Markus Neteler, PhD, is cofounder and senior consultant at mundialis, a geospatial analysis and remote sensing business located in Bonn, Germany (https://www.mundialis.de/). Prior to joining mundialis he spent 15 years as a researcher in Italy with a focus on eco-health, biodiversity, GIS and Earth observation. In Italy he participated as a task leader in several European projects and led several national and international projects. Since 2015 he puts his energy into the company mundialis, overseeing numerous Earth observation, GIS and cloud computing related projects (esp. actinia). Those include B2B as well as H2020 and national research projects. His main interests are remote sensing, analysis of big geodata in the cloud and Free and Open Source software GIS development. He is project coordinator of GRASS GIS (https://grass.osgeo.org/) since 1997 and founding member of several related associations.