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Johannes Scholz
Professor for Geoinformatics

Schillerstraße 30 | TechnoZ 10 | 1st floor, 5020 Salzburg

Tel.: +43 (0) 662 / 8044-7597
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Web:  https://www.johannesscholz.net

Roles and Functions

  • Head of RG GeoAI, GeoKG and GeoSemantics
  • Member of the curricular committee “Geography”
  • Member of Austrian Standards TC 084 (comittee 084 Geoinformation and Surveying)
  • Member of the Steering Group of Research Center “ Energetic” of IEE TU Graz (Prof. Sonja Wogrin)

Research Interests

  • Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI)
  • Geospatial Knowledge Graphs
  • Semantics and Ontologies in Geography
  • Spatio-temporal modeling, analysis and simulation
    • Spatial Agent-based Modeling
    • Numerical Spatial Optimization

These basic research foci are applied in the following application contexts:

  • Energy Transition and Carbon Footprint
  • Digital Tourism
  • Supply Chain Analysis and Optimization
  • GeoHumanities (part of Digital Humanities)
  • Military Information Systems
  • Analog Mars Missions (AMADEE-22 and AMADE-24)
  • Indoor Geography (with applications in Industry 4.0 / Cyber-Physical Systems)

Publications