Dr. Alfred Stein

Alfred Stein is a professor of spatial statistics and image analysis at the Department of Earth Observation Science of the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente. He received his MSc in mathematics and information science, with a specialization in applied statistics, from Eindhoven University of Technology and his PhD from Wageningen University. He continued his academic career at the Soil Science and Geology department of Wageningen University, leading to a professorship as the chair of mathematical and statistical models in 2000. In 1995, he was appointed as a visiting professor at the then Institute of ITC, where in 2002, he became a professor at the new Department of Earth Observation Science. He has chaired this department for more than 15 years. Currently, at the University of Twente, his main interests are in the development of spatial statistical and image analysis methods with agricultural, human, urban, and environmental applications. Alfred Stein is the editor-in-chief of Spatial Statistics, the leading platform in the domain of spatial statistics.