Partner universities

The International Master of Science Programme in Cartography is a cooperation of the following four universities.

Technische Universität München (TUM)

Chair of Cartography and Visual Analytics
Department of Aerospace and Geodesy
Arcisstraße 21
80333 München
Germany
The Chair of Cartography of Technical University of Munich (TUM) was founded in 1948 under the name Institute of Photogrammetry, Topography and General Cartography. The chair is one of about 250 chairs at TUM and belongs to the Department of Aerospace and Geodesy.
The Chair of Cartography offers a very high level of education and research in the field of cartography. The overall mission is the „Development of geo-data analysis methods — from data enrichment to advanced visualization and communication“. Currently, the chair is focusing on the extension of computational methods to cluster spatial data geovisualization and density visualization of points. Ongoing projects include topics such as visual analytics of multi-dimensionally geocoded point datasets and event detection from VGI. Further research focuses on location-based services (LBS) and routing as well as on data integration. New knowledge and ideas acquired from the ongoing research work is directly introduced into the teaching modules and students get a first-hand insight into ongoing research.

The main people involved in the master programme are: 
  • Prof. Liqiu Meng is the head of the Chair of Cartography and Visual Analytics and the programme director of the Cartography master programme. She teaches Visualization of Geodata, Geoinformation and Cartographic Foundations.
  • Juliane Cron is the programme coordinator and works as a research assistant on her PhD. Juliane gives lectures in Visualization of Geodata, Cartographic Foundations and she supervises the Mapping Project.
  • Sasanka Madawalagama is an alumni of the programme and coordinates the fourth seemster for all students writing the thesis at TUM.
  • Christian Murphy teaches Geoinformation and gives lectures on Geomarketing, besides helping with Eye Tracking applications.
  • Yu Feng is a Post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Cartography and Visual Analytics and teaches Image Analysis for Mapping.
  • Andreas Divanis is a research assistant working on his PhD. Andreas is responsible the Geostatistics course.
  • Holger Kumke is our men for all technical equipment and issues.
  • Stephanie Kruchen is the secretary of the Chair of Cartography and Visual Analytics.

Technische Universität Wien (TUW)

Research Unit Cartography
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation
Karlsplatz 13
1040 Wien
Austria
The Research Unit Cartography at Vienna University of Technology was founded in 1971. It is one of the seven research units that form the Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation at TU Wien. Main research activities and questions are on fundamental and methodological issues of cartographic communication processes, such as syntactical, semantic and pragmatic dimensions of cartographic presentation forms. The technological focus is on multimedia cartography, and especially web mapping, mobile internet and location-based services (LBS). Applied research is done on interactivity with maps and deriving appropriate navigation support with means of maps and concepting online atlases.

The main people involved in the master programme are: 
  • Prof. Georg Gartner is the head of the Research Division and teaches Theoretical Cartography, and supervises the Seminar of Cartography and the Master theses.
  • Sacha Schlumpf is a project assistant and the local coordinator at TU Wien. He is an alumnus of the 11th intake of the Cartography M.Sc. programme. Sacha teaches Geo-Media Techniques.
  • Florian Ledermann is senior lecturer and researcher. Florian teaches Web Cartography and supports the programme by supervising and reviewing master theses.
  • Markus Jobst works at the Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying and teaches Cartographic Interfaces and Programming Cartographic Tasks as an external lecturer.
  • Manuela Schmidt is a freelance cartographer and supervises the Project Map Creation.
  • Andrea Binn is a university assistant; she is involved in a programme as Master theses reviewer.

Technische Universität Dresden (TUD)

Institute of Cartography
Department of Geosciences
Helmholtzstraße 10
01069 Dresden
Germany
Cartography has been taught at TU Dresden since its founding in 1828. The Institute of Cartography was reorganised in 2016 and consists now of a Chair for Cartographic Communication. Education and research at the Institute of Cartography under direction of Professor Dirk Burghardt span the wide range between classic cartography and interactive geo-visualisation. Recent research focusses on geovisualization of user-generated spatial data, web- and mobile cartography, automated generalisation, environmental monitoring and 3D visualisation. The institute offers classes for students of cartography, geoinformation technologies, geography as well as geodesy and geoinformation. 

The main people involved in the master programme are: 
  • Prof. Dirk Burghardt is the head of the Chair of Cartographic Communication and teaches Mobile Cartography
  • Eva Hauthal is the local coordinator and works as scientific assistant at the Chair for Cartographic Communication. Eva supervises the exercises and project work within the module Mobile Cartography.
  • Nikolas Prechtel is a long-standing staff member at the Institute of Cartography. He teaches Subject-specific GIS Applications and Case Studies as well as 3D Virtual Landscapes.
  • Benjamin Schroeter is our guest lecturer for teaching the Georelief and Cartography module and therefore the main organiser of the Alpine Cartography Field School. 
  • Alexander Dunkel has a background in landscape architecture and urban planning. He is a scientific assistant at the Chair for Cartographic Communication and is contributing to the module Mobile Cartography.
  • JProf. Anette Eltner is a junior professor for geo-sensor systems and teaches the module Laser Scanning and DTM Generation.
  • JProf. Matthias Forkel is an environmental scientist and Junior Professor for environmental remote sensing. He is the lecturer of the module Remote-Sensing-based Environmental Mapping.
  • Stephan Mäs is part of the chair of geoinformation systems at TU Dresden and teaches the module Geodata Infrastructures.

University of Twente (UTwente)

Department of Geo-Information Processing
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Drienerlolaan 5
7522 NB Enschede
The Netherlands
The University of Twente (UT), is a leading Dutch university which links technology and society, and operates as a federation of independent faculties, which includes the faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). At ITC, knowledge of geo-information management is readily available and is continually being developed and extended. By means of education, research and project services, ITC contributes to capacity building in developing countries and emerging economies. Strong attention is paid to the development and application of GI systems. ITC offers a wide selection of courses in the field of GI science and earth observation at Diploma, MSc and PhD level. ITC also offers distance education and fosters joint educational partnerships with educational organizations in developing countries. Within the Cartography M.Sc. programme, ITC offers distance education within two online modules in the first and third semester and is responsible for the organization of the 4th semester. 

The main people involved in the master programme are: 
  • Prof. Menno-Jan Kraak is professor in Geovisualization at the faculty ITC and the head of Geo-Information Processing Department He is the president of the International Cartographic Association for the period 2015–2019. His current personal research interests are related to mapping time in the context of geovisual-analytics and cartography.
  • Barend Köbben is the local coordinator at ITC and coordinates the Master's thesis semester. Barend is a senior lecturer in GIS and cartographic visualisation in the Department of Geo-Information Processing. His teaching subjects include Cartographic Theory, WebCartography and WebGIS, Geo-webservices, web application building and 3D visualisation.
Paulo Raposo is assistant professor in geovisualization in the Department of Geo-Information Processing. He is a cartographer and GIS specialist. His research interests are mainly in map generalization and multiple representation, cartographic design, geometry, and GIS programming. Paulo is involved in the Cartography programme as supervisor for Master's theses.
  • Luc Boerboom is assistant professor in Planning and Decision making Concepts and Methods, in the Department of Urban Regional Planning and Geo-information Management at ITC. Luc teaches the online module Spatial Decision Support Systems.
  • Richard Knippers is a lecturer in the department and specialized in the fields of geo-information technology and management, the application of geographical information systems, mapping and spatial referencing. Richard teaches the online module Principles of Databases and is involved in the Cartography programme as supervisor for Master's theses.
  • Ellen-Wien Augustijn is a lecturer in the Department of Geo-Information Processing. Keywords in the research interest of Ellen-Wien Augustijn are Agent-based Modeling (ABM), Geocomputation and disease modeling. Ellen-Wien is involved in the Cartography programme as supervisor for Master's theses.
  • Evangelia (Valia) Drakou is an assistant professor in the Department of Geo-Information Processing. Her expertise lies in spatial analytics, landscape ecology and ecosystem services mapping. In particular she is focusing on identifying methods to map and model ecosystem services in data-poor regions and ecosystems. Valia is involved in the Cartography programme as supervisor for Master's theses.
  • Rania Kounadi is an assistant professor in the Department of Geo-Information Processing of UT/ITC. Her research interests are in the fields of geoprivacy & spatial confidentiality, urban safety, spatial crime analysis and dynamic population models. Rania is a potential thesis supervisor and reviewer.
  • Franz-Benjamin Mocnik is assistant professor in the Department of Geo-Information Processing. His research focusses on the question of how to conceptualize and represent places, including their depiction by cartographic means.
  • Mingshu Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of Geo-Information Processing. His research focuses on developing and applying methods of GIScience and big data analytics to understand sustainable urban systems. Mingshu is a potential thesis supervisor and reviewer.