Prof. Gerard Heuvelink

Gerard B. M. Heuvelink holds an MSc in Applied Mathematics from Twente Technical University (1987) and a PhD in Environmental Sciences from Utrecht University (1993). He was an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam until 2003 and had a dual appointment as senior researcher at Alterra and associate professor at Wageningen University from 2003 onward. In 2011, he changed his Alterra appointment to a position as a senior researcher at ISRIC – World Soil Information. Gerard has been a visiting professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing) since 2011. He is deputy editor of the European Journal of Soil Science and an editorial board member of five more international scientific journals. In 2014, he was awarded the Richard Webster Medal from the Pedometrics Commission of the International Union of Soil Science, and in 2019, the Peter Burrough Medal of the International Spatial Accuracy Research Organisation.