Prof. Dr. Thomas Scholten is a Soil Science and Geomorphology Professor at the Department of Geoscience, Faculty of Science, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. Since 2004, he has been a council member of the European Society for Soil Conservation (ESSC). Since 2006, he has been the director of the Institute of Geography at Tübingen University. From 2012 to 2015, he was the President of the German Soil Science Society (DBG). Since 2017, he has been a co-speaker of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1070) 'ResourceCultures' of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and since 2019, he has been a principal investigator in the Cluster of Excellence ‘Machine Learning-New Perspectives for Science’ at Tübingen University. His areas of expertise and research activities are mainly concerned with soil science, environment, geomorphology, geoecology, soil erosion, and machine learning in soil science.