Teaching

Full-term courses taught as principal or co-lecturer (in italics) were evaluated consistently above average

Student Supervision

2019: Ramírez-Mejía D. International trade of avocado and its impacts on land use and biodiversity. Visiting International Research Student (6 months), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (co-supervised with Prof. Dr. Ramankutty).

2019: Wandl M-T. Environmental impacts of global fruit & vegetable production. Visiting International Research Student (6 months), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (co-supervised with Dr. Mehrabi & Prof. Dr. Ramankutty).

2019 – 2020: Milne E. Work-Learn student (600h), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (principal supervisor).

Thesis Supervision

MSc theses (9): Aliaj B. (2021), Battais J. (2021), van Buren S. (2021), Vieveen H. (2021), Teijema N. (2022), Sluis J. (2022), Kooistra R. (2022), de Haan H. (2022), van Lith P. (2022)
BSc theses (4): Pötzschner F. (2016), Ferwerda A. (2021), Voerman T. (2022), Kos (2022)

Teaching: Graduate level

2016: Invited lecture and seminar on spatial modelling and spatial statistics (IAMO Doctorate Programme, Halle, Germany, 8 h)

2012 – 2014: Invited lecture and seminar on spatial statistics and ESDA (IAMO Doctorate Programme, Halle, Germany, 3 h)

Teaching: Master level

2020 – ongoing: Food Systems & Sustainability (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, module, 6 ECTS); also course coordinator

2014 – 2018: Quantitative methods (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, seminar, final exam project supervision, winter term)

2014 – 2016: Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity – seminar on spatial clustering techniques (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, seminar, 3h, summer term)

2012 & 2014: Land System Science – seminar on land use intensity (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, seminar, 3 h, winter term)

2011: Land System Science – literature seminar on land use change processes, impacts, drivers, and actors (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, seminar, 3 h, winter term)

2009: Advanced methods of Geoinformation processing (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, seminar, 32 h, winter term)

2009: Advanced methods of Geoinformation processing (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, substitute lecture on spatial modelling and spatial analysis, 6 h, winter term)

2009: Mathematics for Geographers (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, lecture and seminar, 6 h, winter term)

Teaching: Bachelor level

2020 – ongoing: Human-Environment Systems & Sustainability Transformations (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
module, 2 ECTS); also course coordinator

2018: Project seminar Carpathians – field trip (1 week) and 2 seminars (8h) on data analysis and visualisation (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, summer term)

2016: Project seminar Carpathians – seminar on sampling techniques and design (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, seminar, 3 h, summer term)

2015: Applied Conservation Biology using R (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, module, 30 h, winter term)

2012: Spatial analysis and geostatistics (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, seminar, 28 h, winter term)

2011 – 2018: Statistics I (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, seminar, 28 h, winter term)

2011 – 2012: Introduction to Geoinformation processing (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, seminar, 30 h, summer term)

2010: Ruhr Area and Geomatics (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, study trip, 4 days)

2010: Applied Geomatics (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, seminar, 28 h, summer term)